Glenn Mulcaire, the private detective at the heart of the scandal, has been ordered to reveal who commissioned him to intercept voicemails

The Government must stick to pledges to reform party financing - or risk that a scandal will further undermine confidence, MPs have warned.

The review into the PIP breast implant scandal is looking at introducing an insurance scheme to help protect future cosmetic surgery patients, the man leading the review tells the BBC.

Lord Prescott, Ashley Cole and Jude Law are among the latest people to receive payouts over the phone-hacking scandal, the High Court hears.

The UK Border Agency is riddled with a "highly troubling" lack of supervision and communication which led to the relaxed border checks scandal, MPs said yesterday.

The UK Border Agency is riddled with a "highly troubling" lack of supervision and communication which led to last year's scandal of relaxed border checks, MPs have said.

The breast implant scandal was "an inevitable result" of "paralysis" at the healthcare regulator, according to the editor of The Lancet, who has accused it of having a "do nothing" attitude.

Slovak politicians head into March elections embroiled in a massive corruption probe prompted by the publication of an alleged intelligence file code-named 'Gorilla'. It suggests that members of leading political parties colluded with financiers in privatisation and public procurement projects. EurActiv Slovakia reports. More »

The Government has launched an advertising campaign to limit demand for NHS surgery to remove faulty breast implants.

Such is the argument deployed by the editor of the UK’s leading medical journal, Richard Horton, in analysing the implications of both the recent breast implant scare and the Health and Social Care Bill for the NHS. Horton acknowledges that the specific case of PIP, and the industrial-grade silicone they appear to have used in