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- Former News of the World news editor Greg Miskiw arrested. (en)
- The Guardian reports two other News Corporation outlets may have illegally accessed records of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. (en)
- Edmondson, journalist James Weatherup and senior reporter Neville Thurlbeck are all arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and unlawfully accessing voicemail messages. (en)
- The Guardian reports that publicist Max Clifford was paid £1 million to drop legal action that could have revealed more News of the World reporters hacked phones. (en)
- Former News of the World US editor James Desborough arrested. (en)
- A Culture, Media and Sport select committee report finds no evidence that News of the World editor Andy Coulson knew of phone hacking taking place at his publication. It does however say it is "inconceivable" that no one apart from royal editor Clive Goodman was aware of it. (en)
- BSkyB takeover withdrawn by News Corporation. (en)
- Andy Coulson is arrested over alleged phone hacking and making illegal payments to police. Clive Goodman is also arrested on suspicion of making illegal payments to police. (en)
- Former News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner re-arrested and bailed until a date in September 2011. (en)
- Former News of the World reporter Dan Evans arrested. (en)
- Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, and Les Hinton, chief executive of Dow Jones & Company, both resign. (en)
- Former News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner arrested. (en)
- Former News of the World executive editor Neil Wallis arrested. (en)
- The New York Times quotes Sean Hoare, a former News of the World reporter, as claiming phone hacking was encouraged at the tabloid; he also tells the BBC that phone hacking was "endemic" at the paper and that Coulson asked him to do it. Paul McMullan, another former journalist at the News of the World, claims that other illegal reporting techniques were widespread. (en)
- Australian Government announces formal inquiry into behaviour of the Australian media. (en)
- News Corporation subsidiary Wireless Generation loses New York State contract for education information system provision. (en)
- Audio emerges of Rupert Murdoch criticising the ongoing investigation and portraying his papers as the real victims. (en)
- The legal team of Glenn Mulcaire issued a statement saying that Mulcaire had been "effectively employed" by News International as a private investigator and had not acted "unilaterally" when intercepting voicemails, but "on the instructions of others". (en)
- NBC reports US-DOJ investigating Floorgraphics hacking. (en)
- David Cameron postpones parliamentary recess by one day. John Yates resigns as assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. Former News of the World reporter and the first to allege phone hacking at the publication, Sean Hoare, is found dead at his home in Hertfordshire. Theresa May tells the House of Commons she has launched an inquiry into malpractices and alleged corruption within the Police. (en)
- Director of public affairs and internal communication for the Metropolitan Police, Dick Fedorcio, put on extended leave. (en)
- Metropolitan Police conduct review of 2006 investigation, find it to be satisfactory. (en)
- "For Neville" email details extent of hacking (en)
- The Financial Times reported that the UK media regulator Ofcom had begun an investigation into whether the phone-hacking scandal may have changed BSkyB's status as the "fit and proper" holder of a UK broadcasting licence. (en)
- Graham Shear, a partner at the City law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner, lodged a breach of privacy claim against News International. (en)
- Abduction and subsequent murder of eight-year-old Sarah Payne. (en)
- Arrests of Clive Goodman , Glenn Mulcaire , Davy Craig . (en)
- Coulson becomes adviser to Cameron. (en)
- The Guardian publicly reveals wider scope of phone hacking (en)
- Floorgraphics reports hacking to FBI. (en)
- Andy Hayman begins job at The Times. Hayman led the earlier police investigation but had retired from the force earlier that year. (en)
- Les Hinton and Assistant Police Commissioner Yates appear before Parliamentary committee. (en)
- The Solicitors Regulation Authority announced an investigation into Harbottle & Lewis, the former solicitors of News International. (en)
- Milly Dowler abducted. (en)
- Start of Operation Weeting, an investigation by the Specialist Crime Directorate of the Metropolitan Police Service. (en)
- News of the World hacks Dowler phone. (en)
- News of the World publishes its last issue. (en)
- NewsIntl payment to Goodman. (en)
- Payment to Gordon Taylor (en)
- Brooks, Rupert Murdoch and James Murdoch appeared before the parliamentary media committee in London for questioning. (en)
- Police and ICO raid premises of private investigator John Boyall. (en)
- Goodman and Mulcaire sentenced. Andy Coulson's resignation from News of the World announced. (en)
- Arrest of a 30-year-old man, whom The Guardian identified as Ross Hall, a former reporter for News of the World who wrote under the pen name of Ross Hindley. (en)
- Clive Goodman story in News of the World raises suspicions of voicemail hacking of the Royal Family. (en)
- News Corporation pays undisclosed damages and apologises to 144 victims. (en)
- The Guardian publishes a letter by Goodman that implicates senior staffers at the News of the World, including Coulson, in extensively discussing and covering-up phone hacking. (en)
- Deputy football editor of The Times, Raoul Simons, arrested. (en)
- The Guardian reports that the voicemail of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler was hacked by the News of the World. Rebekah Brooks was editor of the tabloid at the time but said it is "inconceivable" that she knew of the activity. Subsequent revelations include those suggesting relatives of British soldiers killed in action and victims and relatives of the 7/7 attack victims were also hacked. (en)
- The News of the World suspends assistant news editor Ian Edmondson over hacking allegations. Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire claimed Edmonson commissioned him to hack phones. (en)
- Operation Motorman, the Information Commissioner's Office investigation. (en)
- Matt Nixson dismissed as features editor of The Sun newspaper. (en)
- Cameron becomes PM. Coulson becomes government Director of Communications. (en)
- Parliament committee report released, Cameron appeared in parliament and at 1922 Committee. (en)
- June 2011 – Several claimants, including actress Sienna Miller and football pundit Andy Gray, receive damage awards from the News of the World. (en)
- Information Commissioner report "What price privacy now?" pdf (en)
- Leveson inquiry receives witness testimony from the family of Milly Dowler, solicitor Graham Shear, writer Joan Smith and Hugh Grant (en)
- James Murdoch appears before the Culture, Media and Sport Committee. (en)
- Information Commissioner report "What price privacy?" pdf (en)
- Prime Minister David Cameron announces government inquiry into the unfolding scandal. (en)
- Boyall, Whittamore, King, and Marshall charged. Each ultimately pleaded guilty to Conspiring to Commit Misconduct While In Public Office. (en)
- Daniel Cloke, Jonathan Chapman, Colin Myler and Tom Crone are questioned by the Committee for Media, Culture and Sports. (en)
- Culture, Media and Sport Committee decide to recall James Murdoch and Les Hinton for further questioning. (en)
- The Independent Glenn Mulcaire suing News International. A private investigator jailed over phone hacking is taking legal action against News International, the company confirmed today. (en)
- Brooks arrested over corruption and phone hacking. Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson resigns. (en)
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