Rebekah Brooks did not routinely use notepads during her time as editor of the Sun, the hacking trial has heard.

Brooks' long-serving personal assistant Cheryl Carter is accused of removing her boss' notebooks which had been archived in 2009 when she moved to "deep carpet world" as chief executive of News International.

After she was arrested, Carter told police most of the 30 notebooks in the seven boxes were hers from her time as beauty editor and she thought nothing was amiss in tearing up and recycling her belongings in July 2011 – at the height of the police investigation into hacking at News International.