British police are investigating new tabloids in the country’s growing phone-hacking scandal, including the Trinity Mirror plc newspaper group and the Express Newspapers, a senior Scotland Yard official said.

SCOTLAND YARD was accused of “a catalogue of failures” over the phone hacking investigation in a damning report by MPs that said up to 12,800 hacking cases may exist.

Scotland Yard was accused today of “a catalogue of failures” over the phone hacking investigation in a damning report by British MPs.