The Prime Minister faced further embarrassment over his 'cosy relationship' with the Murdoch empire as it emerged that he signed off messages to Rebekah Brooks with the phrase 'lots of love'. Former News International boss Rebekah Brooks denied that she received up to 12 messages a day from the PM but said he finished those he did send with either 'DC' or the intimate phrase 'lol'. Mrs Brooks said that the ...

Committee members have said they were obstructed and put under surveillance by Murdoch's News Corp during their five year investigation into the hacking of the phones of celebrities, murder victims, politicians and soldiers for newspaper stories. ...

Hundreds of pages of e-mails painted a picture of a back channel between Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Frederic Michel, a top employee of James Murdoch, then head of News Corp.'s British newspaper operations. ...

Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has been arrested as part of the police inquiry into allegations of phone hacking. Five other people were detained, including Mrs Brooks' husband, the racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks. The arrests took place in Oxfordshire, London, Hampshire and Hertfordshire. Police said one woman and five men were held on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the cours ...

Charlotte Church says she was "sickened and disgusted" by what she discovered during her legal action against News International over phone hacking. [caption id="attachment_6065" align="alignright" width="300" caption=""What I have discovered as the litigation has gone on has sickened and disgusted me.""][/caption] Ms Church and her parents have agreed damages and costs of £600,000 with News Group ...

Heather Mills, the former wife of singer Sir Paul McCartney, has said in a statement that she never disclosed private voicemail messages from her ex-husband to former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan. [caption id="attachment_4204" align="alignright" width="214" caption="Heather Mills"][/caption] It comes after the former tabloid editor, now an interviewer for American broadcaster CNN, told the inquiry on Tu ...

British police have arrested the private eye at the heart of the scandal over illegal newspaper telephone hacking, which forced Rupert Murdoch to shut Britain's most-read newspaper and rocked the media and political elite. [caption id="attachment_2948" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Glenn Mulcaire"][/caption] Britain's media industry, politicians and police have been hit this year by revelations th ...

After Sienna Miller gave evidence in the Leveson Enquiry in to press intrusion yesterday morning, the actress and Vogue cover girl headed straight to Paris for the Lancel Celebrates 135 Years Of French Legerete event, which she hosted last night. Although Miller herself seems to be moving on, this morning's papers are full of the evidence she gave yesterday, including one quote, reported in the Times. "Ther ...

Rebekah Brooks, the former News of the World editor who resigned as chief executive of News International at the height of the phone-hacking scandal, received £1.7m in cash, the use of a London office and a chauffeur-driven limousine as part of her severance package from the newspaper group. Brooks, a favourite of Rupert Murdoch who rose from being a secretary on the features desk of the Sunday newspaper to ...