No CPS action against Coulson

The Daily Telegraph has (sort of) exclusive report that the Crown Prosecution Service will inform Scotland Yard detectives that there is no criminal case to answer over allegations that Andy Coulson, plus other former & current employees of the News of the World, were actively involved in illegal phone hacking.

Coulson, now the the prime minister's chief media adviser, appeared as witness yesterday in the trial of former Scottish Socialist party leader Tommy Sheridan, who is accused of lying on oath when he won a £200,000 defamation action against the News of the World in 2006, following a three-year police inquiry.

The former editor has denied in court that he ordered reporters to "practise the dark arts" by illegally hacking phones and "blagging" confidential information when he was editor of the News of the World.