Former senior officers at Surrey Police in England failed to act on evidence of the alleged hacking of schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s phone during their 2002 investigation of her murder, the police watchdog has found.

The deputy chief constable of Surrey Police is being investigated over claims that he failed to act over the hacking of schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s phone.

BRITISH spies accused of helping in the rendition and torture of two Libyan rebels will be investigated by police, officials said.