Overview
A scandal over phone hacking by the News of the World escalated on July 5 after it emerged police were investigating whether the top-selling tabloid hacked the phone of missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler, who was later found murdered.
That moved the affair, in which the paper had already admitted some staff accessed the voicemails of public figures, close to the heart of Rupert Murdoch's empire since top executive Rebekah Brooks was editor at the time the girl was abducted.
Here are some of the key figures in the saga:
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