London mayor Boris Johnson and fellow Etonian Darius Guppy were recorded on tape in 1990 planning to beat up a News of the World journalist.
A bag containing a laptop and "private papers" was found in a car park close to the apartment Rebekah Brooks shares with her husband Charlie on Monday.
Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre this week claimed he had never "countenanced" phone hacking at the newspaper.
Sir Paul Stephenson’s resignation as chief commissioner of the Metropolitan Police has ended his career. He was responsible for some of the worst attacks on protests for a generation.
What began as the "phone hacking" scandal has grown to engulf three key pillars of the establishment: the Murdoch media empire, the Metropolitan police and the Tory government.
One of the 45 socialists arrested by the Zimbabwe government this February for watching a video about the Arab Spring died late on Thursday evening.
The accelerating scandal of the police, the politcians and the press will focus on Parliament next Tuesday, 19 July, when the Murdochs and (resigned) Rebekah Brooks appear before a select committee.
Workers at South Yorkshire newspapers owned by Johnston Press today began an all out strike against redundancies. This followed a vote that was 100 percent for action on a 90 percent turnout. Nineteen out of 20 journalists voted for the action—and the last was on holiday.
BBC journalists struck on last Friday, against management plans to impose 100 compulsory redundancies. Picket lines were strong and the national strike, by NUJ union members, had a big impact.
When staff arrived for work at the Immigration Advisory Service on Monday, we were met by security guards hired by the administrators.
The News of the World hated working class people.
Rupert Murdoch broke the print unions with his move to fortress Wapping in 1986.
