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The Coronation Street star's defence barrister urges the jury to find him not guilty, describing the allegations as nonsense. 5:09pm UK, Friday 31 January 2014

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Constance Briscoe trial jury discharged after failing to reach verdict

Briscoe, a 56-year-old barrister, from Clapham, south west London, denies three counts of intending to pervert the course of justice Photo: GETTY IMAGES By News agencies

3:16PM GMT 31 Jan 2014

The jury trying part-time judge Constance Briscoe over charges that she lied to police investigating the Chris Huhne speeding points case has been discharged after failing to reach verdicts.

Briscoe, a 56-year-old barrister, from Clapham, south west London, denies three counts of intending to pervert the course of justice.

The jury of six women and five men had been deliberating since Wednesday at Southwark Crown Court but were discharged after failing to reach verdicts on any counts.

Briscoe is accused of providing police with two inaccurate statements about her role as an intermediary between then Energy Secretary Chris Huhne's estranged wife Vicky Pryce and reporters in revealing details of the speeding points saga.

She is also accused of producing an altered copy of a statement and then deliberately getting a document expert to view the wrong version of the statement.

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'Deirdre' to give evidence in Bill Roache trial

Coronation Street actress Anne Kirkbride arrives at Preston Crown Court  Photo: Getty Images By Claire Carter, and agencies

7:41AM GMT 29 Jan 2014

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Anne Kirkbride, who plays Deirdre Barlow – the onscreen wife of Bill Roache in Coronation Street, is expected to give evidence in his trial today.

Other members of Roache’s on-screen family including Chris Gascoyne - his son Peter Barlow in the ITV show – are also expected to give evidence.

Roache, 81, denies two counts of raping a 15-year-old girl in east Lancashire in 1967, and four indecent assaults involving four girls aged between 11 or 12 and 16 in the Manchester area in 1965 and 1968.

On Monday he was cleared of one of the seven historic sex allegations against him when the judge ordered the jury to return a not guilty verdict on a single count of indecent assault.

Roache, of Wilmslow, Cheshire, has previously told Preston Crown Court he did not commit any of the offences.

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He told a jury that he did not remember meeting any of the people who made allegations against him, and denied that he was a man "willing to take sexual risks" during the 1960s.

Roache conceded having cheated on his wife Anna Cropper, but said he was "not interested in gratuitous sex ,and certainly not with under-age people".

He told the court: "I have no interest in people under age and I have no interest in imposing myself on people."

Roache was born in Ilkeston in Derbyshire and went to the nearby Rudolph Steiner School where his grandfather had donated part of his property for its grounds.

Talking about Mr Steiner, he said: "He had an interesting philosophy about education - that school should be a place of fun. Handcrafts, dancing, painting... there was no discipline; it was not needed either."

He then went to boarding school in North Wales before joining the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, suffering an accident which permanently damaged his hearing in the mid 1950s.

The trial continues.

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Phone hacker tried to do a deal with police to save his own skin, trial hears

Andy Coulson, left, and Dan Evans arriving at the Old Bailey on Tuesday Photo: ANDY RAIN/EPA By Martin Evans, Crime Correspondent

6:46PM GMT 29 Jan 2014

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A former News of the World reporter, who has admitted phone hacking, described in court how he sought a deal with police to avoid being prosecuted for his role in the scandal.

Dan Evans, 38, initially lied about his phone hacking activities, after he was accused of attempting to listen to the voicemail of interior designer Kelly Hoppen.

In civil proceedings in August 2011 he claimed his Nokia phone had been faulty, something that was described in court as the “sticky keys defence”.

But just months later, he changed his story, admitting his role in hacking and agreeing to cooperate with police in a bid to seek immunity from prosecution.

Mr Evans, who appeared as a prosecution witness, claimed Andy Coulson, the News of the World’s former editor, knew about his phone hacking activities.

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He told the jury: “I did not broadcast it because that would have been crass but everybody knew.

“The truth is that Andy Coulson knew exactly what was going on on his watch.”

Mr Evans said he was sorry he had lied about hacking initially, claiming he had been a “very frightened man” who had not known what to do at the time.

The Old Bailey heard how Mr Evans had told his lawyers: “My ultimate goal is that there is not evidence against me and prosecution.”

He also told police that he had wanted to “look his children in the eye” and get back on the “right path in life”.

Earlier in the trial the jury was told how Mr Evans had hacked the phone of James Bond actor, Daniel Craig and had recorded a message from Jude Law’s girlfriend Sienna Miller, telling him she loved him.

He had told the court that after playing the tape in the News of the World office, Mr Coulson became animated and declared it “brilliant”.

But under cross-examination from Mr Coulson’s barrister, Timothy Langdale QC, Mr Evans was forced to admit that he had been “paraphrasing” when describing the incident.

Mr Langdale said: “Yesterday you told this court Mr Coulson, when you played the voicemail message of Sienna Miller, to you said, ‘Brilliant’. Is that truthful evidence?”

Mr Evans replied: “That is truthful. The exact word may be paraphrasing.”

Mr Langdale said: “You have got a bit of a habit of doing that.”

Pressed about why he had initially lied about the hacking of Miss Hoppen’s phone, Mr Evans said he had been “toeing the line” but added: “I bitterly regret I did not take a braver course of action at the time.”

Mr Evans joined the News of the World in 2005 after being poached from the rival tabloid the Sunday Mirror.

The former tabloid reporter, who has been in therapy for the last 18-months, claimed he had turned to drink and drugs to “self-medicate” amid the stress of phone hacking.

He told the court: “The secret made me unhappy. Carrying an enormous secret and delving into the lives of people who did not deserve it made me unhappy.

The court has heard that he has admitted conspiracy to hack phones at the Sunday Mirror between February 2003 and January 2005, and the same offence at the News of the World between April 2004 and June 2010.

He also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office between January 2008 and June 2010, and perverting the course of justice by giving a false statement in High Court proceedings.

Mr Coulson, 46, from Charing, Kent, denies conspiring to hack phones and conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office.

Seven defendants, including former Sun and News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks, deny all the charges against them.

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Jude Law arrives at phone-hacking trial

Jude Law arrives at the Old Bailey, in London, to give evidence at the phone-hacking trial of former News of the World and Sun editor Rebekah Brooks. 11:26AM GMT 27 Jan 2014

The actor was greeted at the Old Bailey by a crowd of television cameras and photographers.

After arriving in a silver Mercedes, Law, wearing a grey suit with a white shirt and dark tie, walked quickly into the court building.

He has been called to give evidence for the prosecution in the trial of former News of the World and Sun editor Rebekah Brooks.

Brooks, 45, of Churchill Oxfordshire, is accused of conspiring with others to hack phones, misconduct in a public office and pervert the course of justice.

She denies all the charges against her along with six other defendants in the case.

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News of the World reporter told: 'Jump off cliff if you can't get stories', trial hears

A former News of the World reporter says he hacked phones after being told he "might as well jump off a cliff" if he could not come up with front page stories, the hacking trial at the Old Bailey is told

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Ian Watkins trial: Lostprophets frontman to go on trial tomorrow accused of raping a baby

On trial: Ian WatkinsGettyFormer Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins will go on trial tomorrow accused of a raping a baby.

The 36-year-old denies 24 sexual offences.

The charges he faces also include sexually assaulting a baby, conspiring to rape a child, and possessing, making and distributing indecent images of children.

Watkins, from Pontypridd, has been in custody since being charged last year since being charged last year.

A jury will be sworn in on Tuesday at Cardiff Crown Court, and the trial is set to last around three weeks.

Two women, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also face sexual offence accusations as part of the case.

All three defendants face a total of 32 charges.

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