Reporter charged in royals phone hack probe

THE News of the World’s royal editor will be in court next week in connection with offences after being questioned over alleged mobile phone hacking.

Scotland Yard said senior journalist Clive Goodman, 48, has been charged with a total of nine offences, including plotting with Glenn Mulcaire to “intercept communications, namely by agreeing to access individuals’ telephone voicemail messages”.

He and Mulcaire, 35, were also charged with eight counts of intercepting communications on dates between January and May this year.