Mervyn Barrett's team resign en masse after question marks are raised over funding

After six months and millions of words, the Leveson Inquiry has shone an unflattering light on journalism and the connections and corruption that entwined the Metropolitan Police and News International. The next module, into newspapers and politicians, begins next month.

Former News of the World executive Neil Wallis advised two former senior policemen on how to get the job of Scotland Yard commissioner, the Leveson Inquiry heard today.

The arrests yesterday morning of six people, including the former chief executive of News International, Rebekah Brooks, and her racehorse-trainer husband, coincided not just with the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival – embarrassment for them – but with the start of the official visit of their friend David Cameron to the United States – embarrassment for him. The association between the Brookses and the Camerons, as members of the so-called Chipping Norton set, has been a recurrent theme of the phone-hacking scandal, and it is refusing to go away.

Dick Fedorcio tells Leveson Inquiry he let NOTW journalist file story on his computer

Constabularies are paying firms billions to run services for them – when many of those companies employ their old colleagues

Former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott launched a campaign to "keep the police public" today, warning that bringing in private security firms could lead to the privatisation of bobbies on the beat.

'Jaw-dropping' testimonies expected as focus turns to police and public officials

A former personal assistant for Rebekah Brooks was arrested today by detectives investigating phone hacking at the News of the World.

Britain's top police officer said today "the other people involved in the murder of Stephen Lawrence should not rest easily in their beds".

Metropolitan Police officers have been warned against “late night carousing” and alcohol-fuelled “flirting” with journalists in an official inquiry report which castigates senior Scotland Yard figures for their cosy relationships with the media.

One of the panel identified stop and search as proof of continuing racism

The recent intolerance displayed by the public towards racial abuse is encouraging

The police chief leading the Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry praised the victim's parents for bringing major changes "in society as a whole".