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

The phone-hacking case brought by Prince Harry is understood to be among those covered by the latest sum set aside by the Sun’s publisher, News Group Newspapers. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

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”.