The former First Minister of Scotland Jack McConnell has become the latest high-profile political target of phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch's News International.
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Saturday 28 April 2012
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Met admits illegally covering up hacking
Wednesday 08 February 2012
The Metropolitan Police yesterday admitted it had unlawfully failed to tell five high-profile individuals, including the former deputy prime minister John Prescott, that their voicemail messages had been hacked by the News of the World.
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Saturday 04 February 2012
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Friday 20 January 2012
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Thursday 15 December 2011
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Amol Rajan: Brooks' career is a parable of modern Fleet Street
Thursday 15 December 2011
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Glenn Mulcaire fights for legal fees from News Group Newspapers
Tuesday 13 December 2011
There was "nothing exotic, unusual or improper" in an arrangement in which News Group Newspapers would pay private investigator Glenn Mulcaire's legal fees, a judge heard today.
Milly Dowler message-deletion could have been automatic
Monday 12 December 2011
Messages on murdered teenager Milly Dowler's mobile phone may have been "automatically" removed, a judge chairing an inquiry into press standards was told today.
Eight hundred people had phones hacked
Saturday 10 December 2011
The final total of people whose phones were hacked by the News of the World will be about 800, it was reported today.
NI tried to destroy my life, says lawyer
Wednesday 30 November 2011
A lawyer for phone-hacking victims today accused Rupert Murdoch's News International of trying to "destroy" his life.
NOTW reporters 'thrown to the wolves' by editors
Wednesday 30 November 2011
News of the World journalists deleted voicemails from murdered teenager Milly Dowler's mobile phone, the Leveson Inquiry heard.
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