More evidence of News International cover-up emerges.

From the Telegraph, 23rd February 2011:

Phone hacking: News of the World bosses ordered emails to be deleted

New evidence of a cover-up of phone hacking at the News of the World has been disclosed in court documents, which show the company created a policy to delete emails which could be used against it in legal proceedings.

Relevant Links, comment and information:

• Phone-hacking: News of the World Bosses Ordered Emails to be Deleted - Telegraph
• Hacked Off Statement On News International 'Email Deletion Policy' - Hacking Inquiry - Hacked Off 
• If the Sun on Sunday Soars Rupert Murdoch Will Also Rise Again - Polly Toynbee - Comment is Free - Guardian 
• Sun on Sunday: Never Has a Newspaper Been Launched in Such Adversity - Roy Greenslade - Guardian
  
• Phone-hacking: Jamie Theakston and Jeff Brazier Sue News International - Guardian
  
• Charlotte Church Settles With News of the World Over Phone-hacking - Telegraph
• Cherie Blair Sues News of the World Over Phone-hacking While Tony Blair Was Prime Minister - Telegraph
• We Must Fashion a New Media Landscape - Norman Fowler - Comment is Free - Guardian

Michael Gove SoS for Education, ex - Sunday Times Journalist

• Hacking Scandal has Created 'Chilling' Atmosphere Towards Free Speech - Michael Gove - Telegraph

• Michael Gove: Another Sign of Desperation - Hacking Inquiry - Hacked Off 

• EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Phonehacking Victim HJK Speaks to Hacked Off - Hacking Inquiry - Hacked Off 

 Tuesday 24th February:

• Andy Coulson Loses Bid To Make Murdoch Pay Legal Costs - HuffPoUK
• A Proposal For Future Regulation of the Media : A Media Standards Authority -  Hugh Tomlinson QC - via Inforrm's Blog
• Proposal For Press Adjudicator - Media Standards Trust 
• New Independent Media Regulator Plan Submitted to Leveson - Journalism.co.uk
  
• Tommy Sheridan's Mum Tells of Her Disgust at Being Hacked By the NotW as She Battled Cancer - Daily Record
• Status Anxiety: Taking the Murdoch Shilling - Toby Young - Spectator 
• 'Come and Meet Me Fact to Face': Hacking Victim's Challenge to Rupert Murdoch - Mirror Online 
• BBC News - Liverpool's 23-year Boycott of the Sun Newspaper 
• TUC: Journlists Lose Thousands in Unpaid Overtime Each Year - Journalism.co.uk
• Murdoch's War on Australian Development Aid - whydev.org 
• Neville Thurlbeck Swaps Journalism For PR With New Role - Journalism.co.uk 
• Phone-hacking: News International Accused of Email Deletion Policy - Guardian 

" Last month, the high court heard that News Group Newspapers had agreed – for the purposes of resolving hacking settlements with the likes of Jude Law and Ashley Cole – that "senior employees and directors" knew about phone hacking and sought to conceal by "destroying evidence of wrongdoing, which evidence included a very substantial number of emails" and the computers of three journalists which had been used when Mulcaire was employed under contract by the News of the World."

• Phone-hacking: Claimants Allege News International Had Email Deletion Policy - FULL TEXT - Guardian 

• Senior Police Officer Faces Phone-hacking Probe - Reuters
• BBC News - IPCC Investigates Police Leak to Journalists 
• Evening Standard - Yard Chief Investigated by Watchdog Over Phone-hacking Inquiry 'Tip-off'  
• IPCC to Investigate Contact Between Met Officer and NI Exec - Journalism.co.uk 
• Judge Warns Rupert Murdoch: Your Trials Aren't Over - Independent
• Exploding the Cash-forStories Myth - openDemocracy 
• Sun on Sunday Scores Scottish TV Sponsorship Coup - Guardian
• Sun on Sunday Sparks Tabloid Price War - Guardian
• News of the World Bosses 'Ordered Mass Email Deletion in Bid to Cover Up Phone-hacking' - Daily Mail
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I wonder whether Mr. Kavanagh's recent interview with Richard Bacon on Radio 5 Live sounds rather hollow now? :-