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Plot to hack newspaper among more than 30 BBC, Mail and Telegraph story links removed from Google

By William Turvill

Google has removed links to more than 30 stories from the BBC, Telegraph and Mail websites, the publishers have revealed.

The BBC last week identified 12 stories that Google has notified it over – although it is not disclosed who the removal requests are made by.

BBC stories include a 2002 report on former Daily Mail employee who was jailed in 2000 for a plot to hack into the newspaper’s computers.

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