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By Press Gazette | 15 May 2013
A former employee at an immigration centre today became the 65th person to be arrested by police investigating bribery allegations involving journalists.
By PA Mediapoint | 09 May 2013
A former police sergeant has been jailed for 10 months after trying to sell a story about celebrity Katie Price's daughter to the News of the World and selling a story about fox attack to The Sun.
By PA Mediapoint and Press Gazette | 08 May 2013
Sun Royal correspondent Duncan Larcombe has vowed to fight the bribe charges he is facing “with every breath in my body”.
By PA Mediapoint | 26 Apr 2013
A former police sergeant faces jail after admitting selling information to The Sun newspaper.
James Bowes, 30, from Steyning, West Sussex, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey today to misconduct in public office in 2010.
By PA Mediapoint | 24 Apr 2013
The Sun's royal editor, Duncan Larcombe, is to be charged with conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office after allegedly paying more than £23,000 for stories relating to the Royal family, or military academy Sandhurst.
By PA Mediapoint | 24 Apr 2013
A former Surrey police officer has been arrested in connection with the investigation into alleged payments to public officials.
By Dominic Ponsford | 18 Apr 2013
Sun executive editor Fergus Shanahan has been charged with authorising two payments to a public official totalling £7,000.
The news that he will face trial comes some 15 months after he was first arrested and questioned by police.
He is one of at least 22 serving and former Sun journalists arr
By William Turvill | 08 Apr 2013
Former News of the World executive editor Neil Wallis has blasted the Metropolitan Police after it was revealed that it has spent an “incredible” £19.5m on operations Weeting, Elveden and Tuleta.
By Dominic Ponsford | 03 Apr 2013
Sun crime editor Mike Sullivan has spoken of his pride at being part of a “group Sun reporters who did the job well and decently”.
By Press Gazette | 02 Apr 2013
Crime editor of The Sun Mike Sullivan has been cleared some 14 months after being arrested by the Met Police Operation Elveden bribes inquiry.
Sullivan was arrested alongside former deputy editor of The Sun Fergus Shanahan, former managing editor Graham Dudman and news editor Chris Pharo on 28 Ja
By Press Gazette | 27 Mar 2013
A former police constable and a prison officer who sold information to the Sun newspaper were jailed today.
By Dominic Ponsford | 26 Mar 2013
The Metropolitan Police has written to editors addressing concerns about an escalation in the Elveden bribes inquiry to include contacts with journalists which did not involve payments.
By PA Mediapoint | 26 Mar 2013
More than a dozen journalists from The Sun turned out to support the newspaper's deputy editor as he appeared in court today charged with authorising payments to public officials for information.
By William Turvill | 20 Mar 2013
At least 59 journalists have been arrested in the UK since April 2011 in an unprecedented police crackdown on the UK media. Here we publish a comprehensive timeline detailing the arrests so far.
By Press Gazette | 20 Mar 2013
The deputy editor of The Sun is to be charged with authorising payments to public officials for information, prosecutors said today.
By Bethan Haf Marsh | 21 Feb 2013
Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey Kevin Hurley has warned that "we are all going to be less safe" as a result of the ongoing police crackdown on journalists and their paid sources in the police and elsewhere.
By Andrew Pugh | 19 Feb 2013
A former prison officer has been charged with committing misconduct in public office over allegations he was paid £3,350 by The Sun to reveal information about a high-profile prisoner in 2010.
By Dominic Ponsford | 15 Feb 2013
The Met Police has confirmed an escalation into its Operation Elveden bribes probe after yesterday arresting a chief superintendent for contact with journalists where no money changed hands.
By Andrew Pugh | 15 Feb 2013
A Met police officer arrested yesterday as part of the Operation Elveden investigation has been released on bail.
By Press Gazette | 12 Feb 2013
Police today made their 60th arrest in the Operation Elveden probe into phone-hacking.


























