New phone-hacking file handed over to police

A FILE containing new evidence on the News of the World phone-hacking scandal has been submitted to prosecutors.

Scotland Yard yesterday said detectives have passed the dossier to specialist lawyers at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

The move comes after Tory communications chief Andy Coulson was interviewed earlier this month as a witness.

Mr Coulson was editor of the News of the World at the time when one of its reporters was jailed for conspiracy to access phone messages involving Princes William and Harry, but has always insisted he did not know about or authorise the activity.

A Metropolitan Police inquiry was revived earlier this year following an investigation by the New York Times which alleged that the practice was more widespread at the Sunday paper than previously admitted.