‘Burgalries to order’

The Independent's Morning Headlines email [The Independent]( April 28, 2023 [View online](   [Morning Headlines]( 1 / [Hugh Grant claims The Sun ‘ordered burglaries of his home’ as emails between NGN and royal staff revealed]( Hugh Grant has claimed The Sun ordered burglaries of his home and tapped his landline to get information about his personal life. The actor, 62, attended the final day of a hearing at the High Court, at which News Group Newspapers (NGN) is bringing a bid to have claims by him and the Duke of Sussex thrown out. Prince Harry is suing NGN over alleged unlawful information gathering at two of its titles, The Sun and the now-defunct News of the World, claiming that his private information was unlawfully accessed. Mr Grant, who settled a claim against NGN relating to unlawful information gathering at the News of the World in 2012, is now bringing a similar legal action in relation to The Sun. In a witness statement, Mr Grant said: “My claim concerns unlawful acts committed by The Sun, including burglaries to order, the breaking and entering of private property in order to obtain private information through bugging, landline tapping, phone hacking, and the use of private investigators to do all these and other illegal things against me.”   2 / [James Corden’s biggest controversies ahead of his final Late Late Show episode]( British star has had his ups and downs in recent years 3 / [Serial killers could go free because of Met Police failure to link deaths, watchdog finds]( Inspection triggered by ‘calamitous litany of failures’ in Grindr serial case warns of ongoing risk 4 / [Body recovered in search for missing fiancé of pregnant teacher found dead]( The body was found during searches of Mugdock Reservoir 5 / [E Jean Carroll fires back on why she didn’t scream during alleged Donald Trump rape]( Mr Trump’s attorneys cross-examined Ms Carroll on the third day of the trial THE BIG QUESTION [Farewell NHS Covid app – but is the pandemic actually over?]( The NHS Covid app, once an integral part of British lives, was turned off for good yesterday. The app was originally developed as part of the UK government’s Test and Trace programme in March 2020 as the world went into lockdown in response to the global spread of [Covid-19](, although a slew of technical problems meant it was not ready for release until September that year. When it did go public, after a whopping £35m had been invested in the project, the app was downloaded more than 21m times and became necessary to enter bars and restaurants and board flights, issuing regular “pings” to warn the public when it was time to self-isolate after coming into contact with someone infected with the [coronavirus]( as part of the campaign to stop the spread. 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