Day 101, Part 1: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson were talented, clever, ambitious individuals who told themselves it didn’t matter whether or not they were breaking the law because they “just wanted the story”, prosecuting counsel Andrew Edis, QC, told the phone hacking trial today. Continue reading
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Day 100: A Government minister who attends Cabinet today gave a glowing character reference for a journalist accused of phone hacking. Continue reading
Day 99, Part 2: Andy Coulson’s former PA printed out emails stored in his drafts folder days before one of his reporters, Clive Goodman, pleaded guilty to phone hacking, a court heard yesterday. Continue reading
Day 99, Part 1: Andy Coulson today denied knowing that a spoiler story in the News of the World about John Prescott’s affair with his diary secretary had come from phone hacking. Continue reading
Day 98: Andy Coulson today denied hearing a voicemail that had been hacked from Sienna Miller’s phone by one of his reporters, Dan Evans. Continue reading
Day 97, Part 2: Andy Coulson, approved requests to pay police for information about the Royal family because he “wasn’t paying enough attention,” he told the phone hacking trial today. Continue reading
Day 97, Part 1: Andy Coulson today denied telling his long-time lover and fellow redtop journalist Rebekah Brooks that he was about to confront a Cabinet minister over an affair. Continue reading
Day 96: Andy Coulson left the News of the World with a £600,000 pay-off, but with little memory of what turned out to be one of its most important stories: the disappearance of Milly Dowler, the phone hacking trial heard today. Continue reading
Day 95: Andy Coulson today told the hacking trial he was aware of the “irony” of his newspaper exposing an affair by a senior politician while having a long-running extra-marital affair himself. Continue reading
Day 94, Part 2: Andy Coulson had a palace mole who supplied the News of the World with information about the Royal Family in return for cash, he said today. Continue reading
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