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Kelvin MacKenzie gives evidence
Full coverage as present and former Sun executives give evidence to the inquiry into phone hacking and media standards. By Josh Halliday, Lisa O'Carroll and Jason Deans
- James Hipwell gives evidence
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- Stuart Hoare and Matt Driscoll give evidence
- Derek Webb, Colin Myler, Daniel Sanderson give evidence
- Colin Myler and Jon Chapman give evidence
- Tom Crone, Julian Pike, Lawrence Abramson give evidence
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- Chris Atkins, David Leigh, Charlotte Harris give evidence
- Alex Owens, Francis Aldhouse, Peter Burden evidence
- Alastair Campbell and Alec Owens give evidence
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- Charlotte Church and Ann Diamond gives evidence
- JK Rowling, Sienna Miller and Max Mosley give evidence
- McCanns and Sheryl Gascoigne give evidence
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The transcripts
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Rebekah Brooks at the culture, media and sport select committee
Read the full transcript from the hearing at the select committee
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James and Rupert Murdoch at the culture, media and sport select committee
Read the full transcript from the hearing at the select committee
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Sir Paul Stephenson at the home affairs select committee
Read the full transcript from the hearing at the select committee
The backstory
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How the Guardian broke the story
News of the World bugging led to £700,000 payout to PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor
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Select committee report: the verdicts
Feb 2010: What the culture, media and sport select committee report said about Coulson, the information commissioner, police and PCC
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Met admits only warning 36 people
April 2011: Disclosure of formerly secret number exposes Met to complaint it breached agreement to warn potential victims
Top stories
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Piers Morgan's phone was hacked, says ex-Mirror journalist
James Hipwell, who was fired over City Slickers scandal, claims colleague hacked into the then editor's phone. By Jason Deans and Lisa O'Carroll
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News of the World publisher settles seven phone-hacking claims
Claims by Mark Oaten, Ulrika Jonsson, Abi Titmuss, Michelle Milburn, Paul Dadge, James Hewitt and Calum Best settled. By Josh Halliday
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Phone hacking was 'routine' at Sun and NoW, Sean Hoare allegedly told brother
Stuart Hoare tells Leveson inquiry his brother Sean, a former News of the World journalist, regularly talked about hacking. By Jason Deans, Lisa O'Carroll and James Robinson
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Glenn Mulcaire wins legal fees battle with News of the World publisher
News Group Newspapers had no right to cancel private eye's legal fees over alleged phone hacking, high court rules. By Josh Halliday
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James Murdoch: I didn't read crucial phone-hacking email
News International boss was sent email in 2008 showing practice went beyond rogue reporter. By Dan Sabbagh and Mark Sweney
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New inquiry into Milly Dowler hacking launched
Judge signals that fresh statements will be taken from police about latest developments. By David Leigh
What they said
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What Murdoch executives said
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Phone hacking denials in full
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What James and Rupert Murdoch said about Chapman, Cloke, Myler and Crone: transcript of select committee hearing
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Colin Myler
- 10 August 2011: Letter to the select committee - I interviewed senior executives when Goodman's claimed phone-hacking was wider
- 21 July 2011: Former News of the World editor accuses James Murdoch of misleading select committee
- 9 November 2009: Myler tells PCC that Guardian allegations that NoW used detectives to hack thousands of phones 'were irresponsible and wholly false'. Paragraph 9.0 for transcript
- 21 July 2009: Myler tells select committee there was 'no evidence or information' that others at NoW knew of hacking or were complicit in them
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Tom Crone
- 10 August 2011: Letter to select committee: I knew the significance of the 'for Neville email' and discussed it with James Murdoch in 15-minute meeting
- 21 July 2011: Former News of the World legal boss accuses James Murdoch of misleading select committee
- 21 July 2009: Crone tells select committee first evidence emerged in April 2008 that hacking went beyond Goodman
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Former Sun editor tells Leveson inquiry NoW publisher should pay 'penalty' for misleading watchdog over phone hacking. By Jason Deans and Josh Halliday
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The adman who advised David Cameron on his election campaign has a new mission: to promote corporate social responsibility
Latest news
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Dominic Mohan faced few challenging questions on phone hacking or past Sun stories, writes Dan Sabbagh -
John Edwards says he feels sympathy for toddler's parents over press mob they faced when they returned home from Portugal. By Lisa O'Carroll
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Sun editor Dominic Mohan, one of his predecessors Kelvin MacKenzie and Bizarre editor Gordon Smart to give evidence. By Josh Halliday
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Woman arrested by detectives on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice understood to be Cheryl Carter. By Lisa O'Carroll
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A 47-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice. By Lisa O'Carroll
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Lord Justice Leveson will focus on former and current editors from the Sun, Telegraph, Mail, Indy, FT and Express. By Lisa O'Carroll
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Former News of the World chief reporter wants 'radical reform' of red-tops and accuses them of 'gross invasions of privacy'. By Lisa O'Carroll
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What did James Murdoch actually say in answer to Tom Watson last week at the select committee hearing? How did Rupert Murdoch respond? Spanish design house Bestiaro has produced this visualisation and navigation tool for the full transcript from the hearing for us using its Impure design language
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James and Rupert Murdoch appeared before the Culture, Media and Sport select committee this week to answer questions over phone-hacking. How did their words compare to those of Rebekah Brooks?
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Hugh Grant links Mail on Sunday to phone hacking
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Phone hacking coverage on Twitter
The lastest tweets from Guardian journalists
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dansabbagh: Jay gently skewers Mohan on the Kate Middleton pregnancy story. No sign of a further questions on phone hacking though...
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dansabbagh: Mohan says he can't remember "the specifics of the rumours" about any phone hacking at the Sun.
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