News of the World phone hackers may have targeted one of Britain’s leading lawyers in an attempt to uncover stories about Diana, Princess of Wales.

ONE of Britain’s top barristers had to rewrite his memoirs after accusing a former client of a series of murders he did not commit.

Prosecutors were today urged to consider bringing charges against soldiers accused of lying to Mark Saville's inquiry into the Bloody Sunday killings.

Police chasing Jean Charles de Menezes were under "undue pressure" to identify him as a suicide bomber, a senior detective said today.

Some of the surveillance officers staking out Jean Charles de Menezes's home did not have a picture of the July 21 suspect they were hunting, it was claimed today.

The jury in the Diana, Princess of Wales inquest today returned a verdict of unlawful killing through negligent driving of both the Mercedes and the following vehicles.

Former British home secretary Kenneth Clarke blocked an investigation into the interception of the telephone calls behind the "Squidgy-gate" and "Camilla-gate" affairs in case the press found out, a court heard today.

The family of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane have engaged two leading British human rights lawyers in their battle for a full public inquiry into his killing.

The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, might have been prevented had Mohamed al Fayed heeded pleas for more security, a key inquest witness suggested today.

Diana, Princess of Wales’s blossoming relationship with her new love Dodi Fayed left the Queen “concerned” as the couple grew closer, the inquest was told today.

The Attorney General chose tonight not to step in to curtail a BBC discussion on whether the Diana inquest is a waste of time.

The Diana, Princess of Wales' coroner tonight referred a planned debate on the case on the BBC’s 'Newsnight' programme to the UK's Attorney General.

Diana, Princess of Wales’ former butler will continue giving evidence at her inquest today as her ex-lover Hasnat Khan said he hopes it will bring an end to speculation surrounding her death.

PRINCE Philip wrote “derogatory” and “cruel” letters to Diana, Princess of Wales, which left her furious and upset, her inquest was told yesterday.

The controversial "Squidgygate" tapes were probably the work of the British intelligence listening station GCHQ which routinely bugged the conversations of Diana, Princess of Wales, her inquest heard.

Extracts from long-secret letters revealing an affectionate relationship between Diana, Princess of Wales, and the Duke of Edinburgh were read at the inquest into her death today.

The man who drove Diana, Princess of Wales, and her lover Dodi Fayed on the journey on which they were killed knew he should not have been at the wheel, a court heard today.

Evidence that Diana, Princess of Wales’s driver had been drinking is not necessarily “relevant” to the cause of the crash which killed her, an expert claimed today.

The coroner in the Diana, Princess of Wales, inquest today vowed to "leave no stone unturned" in his efforts to have the paparazzi who pursued her to the scene of her death give evidence.

One of the paparazzi who arrived at the wreckage of Diana, Princess of Wales’ Mercedes minutes after it crashed shouted to another “she’s dead, hurry up”, her inquest heard today.

The inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and her lover Dodi Fayed finally got under way today.

Lawyers for Mohamed al Fayed today launched a bid to involve the Queen in the Diana, Princess of Wales inquest.

Mohamed al Fayed was challenged today to produce evidence to back up his claims that his son Dodi and Diana, Princess of Wales, died as the result of a plot involving the royal family.

THE decision that Baroness Butler-Sloss should sit as coroner and preside over the inquests into the deaths of Dodi Fayed and Diana, Princess of Wales, was condemned as “fatally flawed” by a QC at the High Court yesterday.

Preliminary hearings for the inquest into Diana, Princess of Wales’s death will take place today.

THE family of a Brazilian electrician mistakenly shot dead by British anti-terrorist police last year has urged an appeal court to force prosecutors to charge the officers involved in his killing.

THE identities of the soldiers who killed 13 civilians and wounded 14 others on Bloody Sunday are still not clear, the inquiry into the events more than 30 years ago was told yesterday.

RELATIVES of 33 people murdered in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings are relieved a date has been set for the inquests into their deaths and that they are due to finish before the 30th anniversary of the atrocities.

The senior member of the Royal family who Diana, Princess of Wales, believed was plotting to kill her in a car crash was named today.

The inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and her lover Dodi Fayed were finally opening today.

A former army captain was today accused of participating in a conspiracy of lies and deceit to justify the events of Bloody Sunday.

The UK's most senior soldier may be recalled to give further evidence to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, it emerged today.

A document which has formed the basis of British army and government statements on the events of Bloody Sunday for more than 30 years is bogus, it was claimed today.

The former British Prime Minister, Sir Edward Heath, has rejected suggestions he knew unarmed people could be killed on Bloody Sunday in Derry.

Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath today insisted he was not responsible for the deaths of 13 civil rights protesters on Bloody Sunday nearly 31 years ago.

One of Britain’s most distinguished soldiers today said the Army was warned that the IRA intended to turn the Bloody Sunday march into a “bloodbath“.

THE personal assistant to the British Army’s most senior frontline officer on Bloody Sunday yesterday denied destroying his notes of the event because he had witnessed a massacre.

An investigator with the Royal Military Police today denied having “watered down” statements from paratroopers who opened fired on Bloody Sunday.

The British Army’s most senior surviving Bloody Sunday officer today denied describing the day’s events as “the best thing he had seen for a long time”.

Entertainer Michael Barrymore tonight denied claims he had lied to the coroner’s court which had investigated the death of a man found floating in his swimming pool.

Michael Barrymore has refused to answer questions about drug taking at an inquest into the death of a man found floating in his swimming pool.

Barry George, the man jailed for life for the murder of TV presenter Jill Dando, will today find out if his appeal against conviction has succeeded.

BARRY GEORGE, the man serving life for the murder of TV presenter Jill Dando, will have to wait to see if he has succeeded in his courtroom bid for freedom following the end of his appeal yesterday.

Barry George, the man serving life for the murder of TV presenter Jill Dando, will have to wait to see if he has succeeded in his courtroom bid for freedom following the end of his appeal today.