Protesters calling for the resignation of BSkyB chairman James Murdoch gathered outside the company’s annual general meeting today.

Surrey Police was aware that Milly Dowler’s phone was hacked by someone working for the News of the World (NotW) in 2002, the force’s chief has said.

Labour MP Tom Watson plans to detail new findings of covert surveillance techniques employed by News Corporation that go “beyond phone hacking”.

TONY Blair last night said he accepted assurances from Gordon Brown that he was not involved in plotting to remove him as prime minister.