Sun publisher sets aside further £128m to cover phone-hacking cases

News Group Newspapers set aside £49m in 2021 to settle costs but more has been earmarked for cases, apparently including Prince Harry’s

The publisher of the Sun newspaper has set aside a further £128m to cover the cost of phone-hacking cases, apparently including the case brought by Prince Harry, which pushed the company deeper into the red.

News Group Newspapers, the publisher of the Sun and the defunct News of the World, said it hoped to approach the “tail end of litigation”.