Rebekah Brooks "categorically" denies making a corrupt payment to a serving member of the armed forces or the Ministry of Defence or to a serving police officer, an Old Bailey jury has heard.

The former editor of the News of the World and the Sun newspapers made the flat-out denials in 2012 while being interviewed by police officers who were investigating claims that telephones had been hacked. She was responding to questions about how she ran the top-selling tabloids while she was in charge.

The written statements she prepared to rebut the allegations were read out to the jury.