Former News of the World editor and PM’s former communications chief, Andy Coulson, has been detained by Strathclyde Police on suspicion of committing perjury at the trial of former MSP Tommy Sheridan in 2010. The 44-year-old was arrested by seven officers from Strathclyde Police at his home in the Dulwich area of London at 6.30 am and is being taken to Glasgow for questioning. “Officers from Strathclyde Police’s Operation Rubicon team detained a 44-year-old man…

  Prime Minister David Cameron assures that he will “co-operate fully” with the Leveson inquiry panel and is prepared to provide complete evidence, including the text messages he and former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks shared between each other, if he is asked to do so. However, Brooks told the jury today that she does not retain possession of the emails because her work email account was blocked following her…

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch on the second day of the Leveson inquiry into the phone hacking scandal at the Sunday edition of the Sun admitted that the news firm had a few cover-ups. There was one very cunning lawyer, Murdoch disclosed, adding that “one or two people” at the News of the World concealed the inside stories from the senior people there. Murdoch, however, refused to reveal names of the…

British singer Charlotte Church, the phone-hacking victim of News Group Newspapers (NGN), settled for a fee £600,000 in an out-of-court legal battle. Speaking on why she decided to drop courtroom battle against the News of the World’s publishers, Welsh singer-songwriter said she apprehended that the ordeal would make her recall all the excruciating things the publication wrote about her and her family. On an interview with The Independent she explains,…