Actress Kate Winslet’s husband has asked a High Court judge to stop a tabloid newspaper from publishing photographs taken at a private fancy dress party two years ago.

Comedian Frankie Boyle complained that he had been libelled when a tabloid newspaper described him as “racist”.

The truth about how murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s phone messages were deleted may never emerge, the Leveson Inquiry heard today.

Three senior judges in the UK ruled today that some journalists can remain anonymous when giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards.

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.

CELEBRITIES fear a backlash from the British tabloid press if they speak out at an inquiry into media standards, comedian and actor Steve Coogan said, adding that newspapers were like the Mafia in the way they operated.

Milly Dowler’s parents arrived at the Royal Courts of Justice today to give evidence to the press standards inquiry triggered by revelations about the hacking of their murdered daughter’s phone.

BRITAIN’S press is “in the dock” for abuses ranging from phone hacking to hounding celebrities and crime victims, the Leveson Inquiry heard yesterday.

THE parents of Madeleine McCann, actor Hugh Grant and Harry Potter creator JK Rowling were named yesterday as core participants in the first stage of the inquiry into the British phone-hacking scandal.

CHERYL COLE has been granted the continuation of a court order preventing a campaign of harassment by paparazzi.

Cheryl Cole has been granted the continuation of a court order preventing a campaign of harassment by paparazzi.

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

Chelsea defender Ashley Cole’s privacy action over newspaper claims about his sex life is set for the High Court in Britain next autumn.

AUTHOR Salman Rushdie received an apology in court yesterday from a former policeman who libelled him in a book about his time in hiding under a fatwa threat.

ROBBIE WILLIAMS yesterday apologised in the High Court in London and agreed to pay undisclosed damages to former Take That manager Nigel Martin Smith over song lyrics suggesting he had stolen funds from the band.