Police to launch fresh phone hacking probe

POLICE launched a fresh inquiry into the phone hacking controversy last night after receiving “significant new information”.

The Metropolitan Police said detectives had received a dossier of evidence about suspicious activities at the News of the World in 2005 and 2006, and a new team would carry out the probe.

The decision was made after the newspaper handed over material gathered during an internal investigation into its assistant editor Ian Edmondson.