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Now a gaggle of Mirror editors are arrested in Met Police phone hacking probe

Now a gaggle of Mirror editors are arrested in Met Police phone hacking probe

By Stuart Smith on March 14, 2013

Whatever took them so long? Plod has finally pounced on four miscreant Mirror Group journalists in a dawn raid conducted by the Weeting (phone hacking) team. And what a haul it has proved to be. The four include the first serving editor to be arrested: James Scott of the Sunday People. Better known is one [...]

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Rebekah Brooks is arrested for the second time in phone hacking scandal

Rebekah Brooks is arrested for the second time in phone hacking scandal

By Stephen Foster on March 13, 2012

Rebekah Brooks (pictured) and her former racehorse trainer husband Charlie have been arrested as part of Scotland Yard’s Operation Weeting probe into phone hacking – the second time for Rebekah, this time on suspicion of ‘perverting the course of justice.’ Today is the first day of National Hunt racing’s Cheltenham Festival, which the horsey couple [...]

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