Mobile phone records of 1,700 News UK staff accessed by Met Police after Vodafone blunder
The Metropolitan Police has been supplied with the phone records of some 1,700 News UK employees after a mistake by…
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Met chief Hogan Howe agrees files on journalists should be destroyed ‘unless they are a criminal’
The commissioner of the Metropolitan Police has accepted that files on journalists who are not criminals should be destroyed. Six…
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Daily Mail lawyer voices alarm over ‘grossly inflated’ legal costs in libel fight over police ‘cronyism’ story
The Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers to appeal in a case in which…
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Six journalists challenge Met Police over surveillance and intelligence files kept on Domestic Extremism database
Six journalists have launched a legal challenge against the Met Police after finding that surveillance information about them is being…
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Pc sacked over Plebgate leak: ‘I could topple the Tory government’ text was sarcastic
A police officer who was sacked from the Met over her part in Plebgate has denied at the High Court…
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Met Police officer sacked for ‘supplying confidential information to a journalist’
A Metropolitan Police officer has been sacked for "supplying confidential information to a journalist". The force has declined to identify…
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Four things Boris Johnson could do to tackle Met Police abuse of RIPA (and doesn’t)
London mayor Boris Johnson (pictured right, Reuters) is facing further questions on Metropolitan Police use of the Regulation of Investigatory…
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Met chief Hogan-Howe denies journalist phone records ‘routinely’ sought – and says he is open to judicial approval
The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police has told MPs he is open to the idea that police access to journalists'…
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