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BBC commentator Stuart Hall charged with indecently assaulting children

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British prosecutors said Wednesday they were bringing charges against veteran BBC commentator Stuart Hall, saying he indecently assaulted children in the 1970s and 1980s. The 82-year-old, a former presenter of game show “It’s a Knockout” known for his eccentric and erudite football match summaries on BBC Radio 5 Live, was…

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Guardian journalist cleared in phone hacking scandal

A man reads a copy of the Guardian newspaper in London in 2009. Prosecutors decided on Tuesday not to charge a journalist from the Guardian newspaper and a Scotland Yard detective over leaks of sensitive information relating to the phone hacking scandal. (AFP Photo/Leon Neal)

Prosecutors decided on Tuesday not to charge a journalist from the Guardian newspaper and a Scotland Yard detective over leaks of sensitive information relating to the phone hacking scandal. The Crown Prosecution Service said it would not be in the public interest to charge Amelia Hill, the Guardian’s special investigations…

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Police drop bid to reveal Guardian’s hacking sources

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LONDON — London’s Metropolitan Police Service on Tuesday said it had dropped an application to force the Guardian newspaper to disclose the sources for its reports on the News International phone-hacking affair. Scotland Yard announced Friday it had tried to obtain a court order under the Official Secrets Act to…

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Four due in court on slavery charges

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Four men charged with slavery offences following a police raid on a Travellers’ caravan site were due in court Tuesday over the treatment of four alleged victims. The accused, all from the same family, were to appear before Luton Magistrates’ Court charged with conspiring to holding a person in servitude…

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