Five people including former spin doctor Andy Coulson and ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks are facing charges linked to alleged bribery of public officials.

David Cameron’s former spin doctor Andy Coulson and ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks will face trial over allegations linked to phone hacking in September next year.

Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, from Oxfordshire, and David Cameron's ex-spin doctor Andy Coulson will face trial over allegations linked to phone hacking in September next year.

Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks will appear in court today to face charges linked to alleged phone hacking.

News International’s former legal adviser Tom Crone “categorically denies” any criminal offence, his solicitor said today, after the 60-year-old was arrested and bailed by police investigating phone hacking.

News International's former legal adviser Tom Crone has been arrested in London by police investigating alleged phone hacking.

Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks was formally charged with phone hacking today and will appear in court next month, Scotland Yard said.

Senior journalists from the News of the World pledged yesterday to clear their names after it was announced that eight people, including David Cameron’s former spin doctor, Andy Coulson, will be charged with phone hacking.

Senior journalists from the News of the World have been formally charged with phone hacking and will appear in court next month, Scotland Yard said tonight.

Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has maintained her innocence after it was confirmed that she is to face charges over phone hacking in the UK.

Eight people, including former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks will face charges in connection with phone hacking, the British Crown Prosecution Service announced today.

The News of the World’s former head of news was told to deliberately mislead the McCanns’ spokesman about the newspaper’s plans to publish Kate McCann’s diary, he said.

KATE MCCANN told the Leveson Inquiry she felt like “climbing into a hole and not coming out” when the News of the World printed her intensely personal diary.

TWO former senior journalists at the News of the World have launched claims for unfair dismissal against the publishers.

A scandal uncovered five years ago today resulted in the demise of Britain’s best-selling newspaper after 168 years.

The News of the World phone hacking scandal will go to the High Court in Britain later for a judge to decide how the case should proceed.

The News of the World has publicly apologised to victims of the newspaper’s phone-hacking controversy, saying that the invasions of privacy “should not have happened”.

News of the World publisher News International was today preparing to pay out millions of pounds in compensation after it admitted liability for intercepting the telephone messages of a number of public figures including actress Sienna Miller.

NEWS International has admitted liability and “apologised unreservedly” to a number of public figures over the News of the World phone hacking allegations.

THE former head of news and current chief reporter of the News of the World have been arrested on suspicion of phone hacking, sources said.

SCOTLAND YARD was battling to stop the phone hacking scandal spiralling out of control last night amid a storm of fresh revelations.

Legal documents indicating that alleged phone hacking at The News of the World newspaper may have been taking place as late as last year emerged this morning.

POLICE launched a fresh inquiry into the phone hacking controversy last night after receiving “significant new information”.

The phone hacking scandal that led to the resignation of David Cameron’s communications chief widened today as a media lawyer revealed it now involves newspapers other than the News of the World.

DOWNING Street communications chief Andy Coulson dramatically quit yesterday after admitting the News of the World phone-hacking row was making his job impossible.

Granada Television has won damages from a national newspaper over claims they spent £23,000 on the five main Stephen Lawrence murder suspects.