Britain's former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is top of the wish-list for producers of 'Celebrity Big Brother', it has emerged.

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.

Singer Sarah Joyce’s second album is relaxing and breezy despite her producer leaving before its completion, says Ed Power

More victims of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal have settled their damages claims, the High Court in London heard today.

Jason Donovan once again set the standard on 'Strictly Come Dancing' tonight with a "classy, stylish and magnificent" performance tonight.

Women are castigated for acting like men in order to succeed, while men are prized for being ruthless, says Suzanne Harrington

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation today withdrew its bid for satellite broadcaster BSkyB in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.

Nearly 30 high-profile figures who suspect that their phone messages were intercepted by News of the World journalists are taking legal action – with more litigants “coming along week by week”, a High Court judge in Britain heard today.

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.

Ed Miliband today declared the New Labour era over, but insisted the party would not embark on a “lurch to the left” under his leadership.

Former British Deputy Prime minister John Prescott privately harboured doubts about the intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003, he disclosed today.

Former deputy British Prime Minister John Prescott is to make his debut as guest host on 'Have I Got News For You'.

GORDON BROWN’S description of a voter he had just spoken to as a “bigoted woman” is the first big gaffe of the general election campaign – and potentially the most damaging one.

John Prescott acknowledged today that Labour was not storming ahead to a “great victory” in the UK's General Election.

TORY leader David Cameron laughed off being hit by an egg while out electioneering yesterday, dismissing it as the “first of the campaign”.

John Prescott’s wife told today of the dramatic moment she found out her husband had had an affair.

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.

Former British deputy prime minister John Prescott today sought to gain access to “sealed” evidence relating to allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World.

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.

News of the World parent company News International has said allegations that police officers found evidence that the newspaper hacked into "thousands" of mobile phones are "untrue".

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

SCOTLAND YARD will conduct “no further investigation” of allegations of phone tapping by the News of the World, assistant commissioner John Yates said last night.

The publisher of the News of the World today defended its journalists and said it would not “shirk from vigorously defending our right and proper role to expose wrongdoing”.

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

Gordon Brown faced renewed mockery of his YouTube performance today as John Prescott described the British Prime Minister’s smile as the worst in the world.

THE Health Service Executive spent yesterday trying to cut e1 billion from their budget. This will mean sick people will be denied services or at the very least have to wait even longer for attention.

John Prescott was today recruiting thousands of supporters every hour to his campaign against part-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) paying out bonuses.

Former British deputy prime minister John Prescott will today present a petition with 13,000 signatures demanding the part state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland drops plans to pay up to £1bn (€1.116bn) in staff bonuses.

Staff at a bank bailed-out by the taxpayer are likely to receive some bonuses, British Chancellor Alistair Darling indicated today as pressure increased for any payments to be halted.

ONE of Hull’s most famous denizens is John Prescott, the one concession to the old school in Tony Blair’s New Labour, so it is only fitting the city’s increasingly impressive football club is also flying the red flag.

Former British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott appears to accuse Cherie Blair of snobbery in his new documentary on class.

JOHN PRESCOTT, the former deputy leader of the British Labour party, was defined for a time in the public mind by the day he punched a protester at an election rally.

A Government legal challenge over the North's former Victims’ Commissioner should be dropped after Peter Hain’s resignation, campaigners said today.

FORMER British deputy prime minister John Prescott, pictured, has announced that he will step down as an MP at the next general election.

POLITICS, during the summer, is as dead as vaudeville.

A leading trade union has expressed “outrage” that members will have to pledge support for Labour’s policies during the forthcoming ballot for the election of a new Deputy Leader, it was disclosed today.

Police in Portugal are probing computer links to the key suspect in the Madeleine McCann abduction case today.

Relatives of missing Madeleine McCann today said they were “heartened” by all the support they have received from the British government.

Tony Blair is expected to announce he is standing down as Labour leader today after a decade in Downing Street, paving the way for Gordon Brown to succeed him as British Prime Minister.

Gordon Brown today acknowledged that mistakes had been made in the handling of Iraq following the 2003 war, and did not rule out a future inquiry into what went wrong.

The Bush administration today sent conflicting signals about the taunting and baiting that accompanied Saddam Hussein’s execution as the White House did not join criticism of the former Iraqi president’s hanging and the state department and US military raised questions about it.

JOHN PRESCOTT yesterday apologised for letting the British Labour Party down following the revelation of his affair earlier this year, saying: “I know in the last year, I let myself down, I let you down. I just want to say sorry.”

Rocker Ozzy Osbourne has been voted Britain’s favourite figure of fun.