Manchester United chief executive David Gill has answered parliamentary criticisms of leveraged buy-outs at football clubs by claiming the Red Devils are "very comfortable" with their financial position.

THE Metropolitan Police put no allegations to Rebekah Brooks during nine hours of interviews, her solicitor said as he described the decision to arrest her as causing “enormous reputational damage”.

Britain’s biggest police force was in turmoil tonight after another senior officer fell on his sword over the phone-hacking scandal.

Rupert Murdoch’s hopes of significantly expanding his media empire were in ruins today after he dramatically bowed to political and public pressure and abandoned News Corporation’s £8bn bid for BSkyB.

TORY communications chief Andy Coulson admitted yesterday that “things went badly wrong” under his editorship of the News of the World – but rejected any suggestion he knew about alleged phone-hacking by the paper’s journalists.

Scotland Yard chiefs were today studying allegations of large-scale phone-hacking by the News of the World.

The BBC’s annual report to be published today is expected to reveal details of the pay packets of top executives over the last financial year, at a time when jobs were being axed across the Corporation.

Football will be allowed to opt out of several key parts of the worldwide code on drugs in sport, it emerged today.