Cahal Milmo

Cahal Milmo is Chief Reporter at The Independent

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Female officer held over 'bribery' in hacking case

A policewoman was arrested yesterday in connection with alleged corrupt payments from journalists to serving officers.

Mulcaire was jailed in 2007 for accessing voicemails

Mulcaire wins his costs fight (unlike Coulson)

Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator who hacked voicemails for the News of the World, won a significant legal victory yesterday when the High Court ruled his old employer must continue paying his legal fees.

Lacoste accused of attempting to censor 'too pro-Palestinian' art

French luxury goods firm Lacoste last night dramatically terminated its sponsorship of a £21,000 photography prize after it was accused of attempting to censor the work of a London-based Palestinian artist.

News editor told me to hack phones, says Mulcaire

Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator used by the News of the World to hack voicemails, told the paper's chief lawyer as early as 2007 that he had been instructed by the paper's former news editor as well as its royal reporter, a court heard yesterday.

The fightback begins: boss vows to take action against miscreant staff

Lord Bell says beleaguered executives are 'searching their souls' after exposé
Rebekah Brooks and Max Clifford

Brooks' links to Clifford payment cast doubt on her hacking denials

PR fixer's £680,000 payment was brokered by ex-News International chief executive in 2010

Bell Pottinger referred to claims that Prince Andrew 'will follow where the chequebook is'

The Palace: Furious reaction to company's claims of royal links

Bell Pottinger boasted of its "links" to the Royal Family to potential clients representing a brutal central Asian dictatorship and suggested that it might be able to organise a royal tour of the country on their behalf.

Mosley hatches plan to make the papers pay

Newspapers should pay a levy from the cover price of every copy they sell to fund a new independent press regulator "with teeth" which would have the power to impose fines on publications that infringe media rules, the former Formula 1 boss Max Mosley told Parliament yesterday.

Steve Brooker: The mudlark unearthing the Thames' history

"Woo-hoo, found one,” says Steve Brooker as he flicks a 1950s French coin, cut neatly in half, across the Thames foreshore. To the uninitiated, it is just one of the multitude of oddities washed up daily by the river. But to the “Mud God”, it is evidence of how dockers once scammed free holidays in France – and one more piece of unlikely history teased from the dark, smelly clutches of London’s waterway.

First arrest in computer hacking investigation

A 52-year-old man yesterday became the first person to be arrested in connection with claims of computer hacking by private investigators working for News International and other newspapers.

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