The editor of the News of the World said today he had introduced "rigorous" safeguards to prevent a repeat of the phone-hacking scandal that resulted in the resignation of his predecessor.

How do stories emerge in the media? Some people believe reporters simply write down what happens. I’d say it was a bit more complicated than that. Take, for example, the recent hysteria over News of the World journalists hacking into the mobile phones of celebrities.

It's a weird old society indeed when the huge stories that are hardest to break are the ones that everybody knows are true anyway. First, it was the bankers.

High profile figures whose phones were allegedly hacked by the News of the World are considering suing the newspaper, according to lawyers.

It was in Portcullis House that Rebekah Wade first let the cat out of the bag. "We have paid the police for information in the past," the editor of The Sun brazenly stated to MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport committee.

Denis MacShane, the sharp-eyed Labour MP, was one of the few people outside the Conservative Party to spot the embattled spin doctor Andy Coulson yesterday – in an inner courtyard of the House of Commons beneath Big Ben.

Recriminations fly after allegations that News of the World phone-hacking targeted thousands of phones; Murdoch's News Group braced for compensation claims but Tories stand by director of communications

Here is the statement about phone tapping from Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates in full:

Prosecutors are to look again at claims of alleged phone hacking by the News of the World, it was announced tonight.

The shadowy techniques used by some journalists and private detectives to obtain confidential information are once again under the spotlight.

The former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott attacked David Cameron today for failing to take action against his director of communications amid the phone tap allegations.

Ex-Ministers call for Tory director of communications to be sacked after allegations

David Cameron plans to replace his controversial chief spin doctor, Andy Coulson, at the next election. The former News of the World editor, who has masterminded the Tory leader's slick communications strategy for the past two years, will not continue in his role even if the Mr Cameron gets to Downing Street, senior party insiders have revealed.

One oleaginous creep accuses him of being like the racist comic Bernard Manning