Manchester United star Tom Cleverley accepted substantial undisclosed libel damages today over a claim that he “badgered” a girl for sex.

FORMER News of the World editor Andy Coulson is suing News Group Newspapers, a subsidiary of News International, over their decision to stop paying his legal fees.

FOOTBALLERS have gone to extreme lengths to prevent salacious tales making their way into the tabloids.

SIENNA Miller’s privacy and harassment claim in the News of the World phone-hacking action settled for £100,000 (about €112,000) damages.

HOLLYWOOD superstars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have accepted undisclosed damages to settle their privacy action over claims that they were separating.

BARRY GEORGE, the man cleared of murdering Jill Dando, has accepted “substantial” libel damages over tabloid claims he was a stalker and could also have been a murderer.

Barry George, who was cleared of murdering TV presenter Jill Dando, accepted substantial undisclosed libel damages today over claims that he had pestered women he was obsessed with.

Allegations of phone tapping at Britain’s best-selling Sunday newspaper were dismissed today by the industry’s watchdog.

CONSERVATIVE leader David Cameron yesterday criticised journalists guilty of “unacceptable practices” but continued to back the former British tabloid newspaper editor who heads his media relations team.

The publisher of the News of the World tonight denied that its reporters had hacked into the phones of hundreds of public figures.

High profile figures whose phones were allegedly hacked by the News of the World are considering suing the newspaper, according to lawyers.

Britain's Guardian newspaper has claimed the publisher of the News of the World, News Group Newspapers, paid out more than £1m (€1.2m) to settle cases that threatened to reveal evidence of the group's journalists' alleged involvement in telephone hacking.

Actress Sienna Miller today accepted £35,000 (€43,000) damages in settlement of her privacy action against News Group Newspapers.