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Police officers keep guard at Buckingham Palace in London, Monday, July 11, 2011. The British press has reported that emails given to police indicate that News International chiefs knew that phone hacking was more widespread than acknowledged and that police were being paid for information.The police position is difficult because of allegations that some of its officers received payoffs from News of the World journalists. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Police: Someone sabotaging UK newspaper inquiry

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, July 11, 2011 - 9:37am

LONDON -- British police said Monday that they believe someone is trying to sabotage its investigation into the widening phone hacking scandal by leaking distracting details of the inquiry to the media.

In an unusual statement, Scotland Yard said that a story that appeared on the front page of London's Evening Standard -- which claimed that police had sold personal details about the queen and her closest aides -- was "part of a deliberate campaign to undermine the investigation into the alleged payments by corrupt journalists to corrupt police officers and divert attention from elsewhere."

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ILE - In this April 13, 2010 file photo, Andy Coulson, formerly editor of the tabloid News of the World, and later David Cameron's director of communications, speaks on a mobile phone in London. London police on Friday, July 8, 2011, arrested Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor who also served as the prime minister's former communications chief, in relation to Britain's tabloid phone-hacking scandal. London police said a 43-year-old man was arrested Friday morning over allegations of phone hacking and police bribery and was in custody at a London police station. They did not name him but offered the information when asked about Coulson. (AP Photo/Oli Scarff, Pool, file)

PM's ex-aide arrested in UK hacking scandal

Jim Lawless, Robert Barr The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, July 8, 2011 - 10:33am

LONDON -- Prime Minister David Cameron's former communications chief and an ex-royal reporter were arrested Friday in a phone hacking and police corruption scandal that has already toppled a major tabloid and rattled the cozy relationship between British politicians and the powerful Murdoch media empire.

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FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2009 file photo, Chief Executive of News International Rebekah Brooks, centre, is seen at the Conservative Party Conference, Manchester, England. Rupert Murdoch's News International shocked Britain on Thursday, July 7, 2011, by announcing it is shutting down the News of the World, the best-selling tabloid at the center of an ugly phone hacking scandal. Brooks was the tabloid's editor at the time of the alleged phone hacking. (AP Photo/Jon Super, file)

News of the World shutting down amid scandal

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 11:51am

LONDON -- News International announced Thursday it is shutting down the News of the World, the best-selling tabloid at the center of Britain's phone hacking scandal.

James Murdoch, who heads European operations for the paper's parent company, said the 168-year-old weekly newspaper would publish its last edition on Sunday, without ads.

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British actor Hugh Grant, right, speaks with an unidentified 'Hacked Off' campaigner outside the Houses of Parliament in London, where a debate was being held into the allegations of phone hacking by journalists Wednesday July 6, 2011. Britain's voracious tabloids may have hit a new low: The News of the World, part of Rupert Murdoch's global media empire at News Corp, is facing claims that it hacked into a missing 13-year-old's phone messages, possibly hampering a police inquiry into her disappearance. "Newspapers were using phone hacking on a widespread and industrial basis ... (with) the apparent collusion of parts of the Metropolitan Police," actor Hugh Grant told BBC radio. (AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

UK police appeal for patience in hacking probe

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Last updated Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 9:09am

UK police appeal for patience in hacking probe

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LONDON (AP) -- The police officer in charge of Britain's burgeoning phone hacking probe has appealed to the public for patience as authorities contact thousands of potential victims.

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FILE -- Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, arrives at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, England, in this Tuesday Oct. 6, 2009 file photo. Britain's long-running phone hacking scandal took a a sickening twist, Tuesday July 5, 2011,with claims that a tabloid newspaper hacked into the phone mail of an abducted teenage girl and may have hampered the police investigation into her disappearance. Brooks, chief executive of News International, which publishes the News of the World tabloid, said in an email to her staff that the "strongest possible" actions would be taken if the charges were found to be true. Brooks said in the email that she had no knowledge of the alleged hacking and said she would not resign. (AP Photo/Jon Super, file)

UK phone hacking targets more slain schoolgirls

Gregory Katz, Robert Barr The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 9:30am

LONDON -- Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal dominated the airways Wednesday as it swelled to allegedly involve more missing schoolgirls and the families of London terror victims. Lawmakers held an emergency debate, companies hastily pulled their ads and the prime minister demanded two new inquiries.

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British tabloid phone hacker says 'sorry'

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, July 5, 2011 - 2:37pm

LONDON -- A private detective at the center of a widening British tabloid phone hacking scandal has issued an apology to all those "hurt or upset" by his activity.

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