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Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Already subscribed? Log in. July 10, - The tabloid shuts down, issuing a full-page apology for the hacking scandal on page three. July 13, - News Corp. He was Brooks' predecessor at News International.
July 16, - Murdoch issues an apology for phone hacking via full page ads in seven national newspapers. July 17, - Brooks is arrested by London police on charges of suspicion of corruption and conspiring to intercept communications.
She is released on bail after 12 hours. Sir Paul Stephenson, Metropolitan Police Commissioner and the UK's highes-ranking policeman, resigns amid the growing controversy and speculation that London police were involved in the phone hacking scandal.
This comes after revelations that former NoW executive editor Neil Wallis later became a communications consultant for the police. Yates had ruled in not to reopen an investigation of phone hacking by journalists. Home Secretary Theresa May announces that London's police department will be investigated for corruption by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary. July 20, - Prime Minister Cameron addresses an emergency meeting to the House of Commons concerning the phone hacking scandal at News Group International and his former communications director, Coulson.
July 21, - Colin Myler and Tom Crone, former top executives of NoW, accuse James Murdoch of giving "mistaken" evidence to a parliamentary committee about a settlement to Taylor. September 14, - Dozens of celebrities, including Hugh Grant and J. Rowling, are given permission to participate in a top-level inquiry into phone hacking by British journalists. September 16, - Police in London have applied for a court order under the Official Secrets Act to try to force the Guardian newspaper to reveal confidential sources who have provided information on the phone-hacking scandal.
October 25, - In a News Corp. November 14, - The Leveson Inquiry into journalistic culture, practices and ethics opens in London. It is revealed that more than two dozen News International employees used the services of convicted phone hacker Mulcaire. November 21, - The Leveson Inquiry begins hearing from witnesses, including Grant and the mother of Dowler, in the hacking scandal and in other questionable practices. December 14, - Crone, a former NoW lawyer, testifies before Parliament that James Murdoch was made aware in June of the scope of the phone hacking situation.
Alastair Campbell, who was communications director to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, will be paid costs and damages. He will keep his corporate title as deputy chief operating officer. The company says he will now focus on its pay television businesses and international operations. All six are arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice contrary to the Criminal Law Act April 5, - John Ryley, the head of Sky News, admits to authorizing journalists to hack into emails of private citizens.
Sky News is owned by News Corp. April 24, - James Murdoch testifies before the Leveson Inquiry. He insists that he knew little about the scale of phone hacking by people working for NoW and he had no reason to look into illegal eavesdropping by his employees when he took over the company's British newspaper subsidiary in December April 26, - Rupert Murdoch admits at the Leveson Inquiry to the cover-up of phone hacking at NoW and apologizes for not paying more attention to the scandal.
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