PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Labour leader Ed Miliband attended a string of News International parties and held talks with former chief executive Rebekah Brooks, newly-released records show.
Mr Miliband also had a series of meetings with the editors of the News of the World and the Sun, Labour confirmed.
The party leader met Mrs Brooks, who was forced to quit two weeks ago over the phone hacking scandal, on September 15 for a "general discussion".
Sun editor Dominic Mohan was also at the London meeting but held separate discussions with Mr Miliband in February as well as at Labour's party conference last autumn.
Mr Miliband attended the News International annual summer reception in 2010 and this year as well as the organisation's party at the Labour conference.
Two days before it emerged the mobile phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler was hacked by a private investigator working for the News of the World, Douglas Alexander attended a social event in the Cotswolds with Mrs Brooks and Mr Hinton as well as Richard Wallace from the Daily Mirror.
The party was hosted by Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth and her husband Matthew Freud in Burford on Saturday, July 2.
Mr Alexander, shadow foreign secretary, also met the couple in London at a "social" event on December 20, the document reveals.
Shadow Northern Ireland secretary Shaun Woodward met Mrs Brooks on Boxing Day. It emerged earlier this month that Prime Minister David Cameron, who succeed Mr Woodward as MP for Witney after he quit the Tories and defected to Labour, also had a social engagement with Mrs Brooks on December 26.
Mr Woodward also met up with Mrs Brooks in France on June 11 this year and visited Mr Hinton on October 9 in the United States of America.