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Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks charged over phone hacking

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Will we next find Rupert Murdoch baking files into cakes?? The British prime minister's former director of communications and Rupert Murdoch's closest confidante in London have been charged with conspiring to hack the phones of more than 600 people, including the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler and 7/7 terror attack victim John Tulloch, over a period of up to six years.

Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, who both edited the News of the World, were among eight people charged with 19 counts of conspiracy over the phone hacking scandal, with prosecutors alleging that the tabloid also targeted Labour cabinet ministers and celebrities -- including at least one person associated with the Hollywood power couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The eight, all employed by Murdoch's now defunct News of the World, are the first people to be charged...
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