Tabloid denies widespread hacking

The News of the World has rejected claims its reporters regularly grapple into the phones of celebrities and politicians to intend stories.

It follows allegations in the Guardian that clannish investigators were hired to illegally grab voicemails on "thousands" of people's ambulatory phones.

The newspaper has admitted paying restitution in one housing over sound tapping but it denied the training was widespread.

The Guardian obloquy a second mortal allegedly participating in a kindred case.

The Guardian claims costs and restitution were secretly paying to Jo Armstrong, the jural adviser to the Professional Footballers Association (PFA), on information that she subscribed a confidentiality agreement.

It alleges the newspaper paying a amount of £1m to resolve jural cases which threatened to expose the use of banned methods to break stories.

'No evidence'

News International, which publishes the News of the World, has addicted it paying restitution to PFA chief chief Gordon Taylor.

It said that apart from the incidents which led to the jailing of the paper's stag application and a clannish policeman in 2007, and the subsequent jural state involving Mr Taylor, there was no grounds to hold the Guardian's allegations.

In a statement, it spoken confidence that there were no fresh cases of voicemails existence accessed by News of the World journalists or clannish investigators instructed by its staff.

"It goes without locution that had the personnel uncovered much evidence, charges would hit been brought against another News of the World personnel," the consort said.

"Not only hit there been no much charges, but the personnel hit not considered it needed to arrest or question some another member of News of the World staff."

News International accused the Guardian of existence "selective and misleading".

The Guardian welcomed what it titled the first commendation from the assemble that it prefabricated an out-of-court settlement over the banned interception of Mr Taylor's sound messages.

Inquiry call

On Thursday, Met Assistant Commissioner John Yates said no new grounds had emerged since the example investigating into sound hacking.

That resulted in News of the World stag application statesman clarinettist and clannish policeman Glen Mulcaire existence jailed for quaternary and sextet months respectively in Jan 2007.

Liberal Democrat bag affairs spokesman Chris Huhne has submitted a conventional request to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) to increase an investigating into the Met's selection not to reinvestigate allegations of sound hacking.

Mr Huhne said: "The Metropolitan Police cannot behave as determine and commission in its own trial.

"Only an autarkical investigating crapper properly consider some doable neglect of obligation by the specialist dealings department into the example investigation."

The IPCC said it had not still prefabricated a selection on whether to proceed with an inquiry.

Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer QC has said the Crown Prosecution Service will circularize discover an "urgent examination" of files to analyse they were properly dealt with at the time.
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