A petition calling for the UK’s three main party leaders to bring in a new press watchdog backed by law has attracted more than 56,000 signatures since being launched by high profile victims of media intrusion yesterday.

IRISH audiences will see raucous, cut-and-thrust Jacobean drama when Globe Theatre presents Shakespeare’s As You Like It at the Kilkenny Arts Festival.

The police officer in charge of investigating illegal behaviour at News Corp’s now-defunct News of the World tabloid said her team had identified 829 “likely victims” of phone hacking.

HUGH GRANT made false allegations that the Mail on Sunday hacked his phone on the basis of “thin” evidence, a lawyer for the paper’s publishers said.