God, those NoW journos were utter scum weren't they?

[headfairy]

apparently by deleting Milly's messages her family still had some hope that she might still be alive

I have emailed my MP. Please people, this is far more important than what Ms Wade did or didn't know. Don't we want to be governed by our own elected representatives? In public, in Parliament and with some sort of accountability attached?

It isn't a perfect system by any means, but you have to wonder how many of the decisions ostensibly being made in Westminster are actually being made in Murdoch's office. It might explain a lot!

Murdoch and his political cronies would love the debate to get bogged down in the relative sleaziness of the British press, thus allowing him to continue flying under the radar and exercising undue, unelected and unaccountable influence.

If you want to do something about standing up to Murdoch how about it, how about this.

easy way to email your MP to ask them to vote against the BSkyB bid.

It's really easy, takes no time at all and this kind of thing really can make a difference.

Yes please follow threefeethighandrising link I wrote to our useless whip-following Tory MP:

www.38degrees.org.uk/page/speakout/time-to-stand-up-to-murdoch

I've read that there is likely to be a vote on Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp takeover of BSkyB this coming Wednesday.

Please can you assure me you will vote to stop this takeover while investigations are ongoing? The inquiries, police investigation into phone hacking, and the Ofcom investigation into whether Rupert Murdoch is "fit and proper", must all happen first.

Mr Murdoch and Newscorp are hoping, by closing The NOTW, that this toxic issue has been dealt with - it has not. There are very serious allegations to answer - in my mind the most upsetting is the possible delay of the police investigation after the tampering of Milly Dowler's phone as she lay dead at the hands of a man who went on to murder two more young women. I don't need to remind you of the rest of the disgraceful allegations.

I know you are expected to tow the party whip - but in the name of humanity and a sense of doing what you know is right please, please do not vote for the BskyB takeover.

I look forward to hearing what you intend to do on Wednesday.

Can someone link me the shropshirestar link that was on here earlier...i can't find it and want to read it properly.

Yes, please follow that link, it's a practical thing you can do to try to make a difference.

And don't worry if you're not quite sure what to say, it gives you some suggested text and you can just use that if you agree with it - or you can change it or write your own if you want.

at Pannus. Mine's milk, one sugar, please!

Monday is certainly when this timeline from the Mirror puts the Dowler info. And that's what turned this from "so what" to "OMFG" for the country at large.

If, like me, you'd read Nick Davies several years ago, and understood the shape of the story, then each little episode with the HoC committee etc slotted into the bigger picture. It's had me yelling at the telly for years.

If you didn't know the bigger picture, it was all disjointed and boringly incomprehensible.

Someone on this or another thread recently said that the public aren't thick, most of us just haven't been paying attention. I completely agree. We have busy lives and get on with what's right in front of us.

The moment the public started paying serious attention, everybody understood the wider implications very quickly.

Private Eye said that she wanted to have a baby as an excuse to get out so maybe....

As for all this Rebekah stuff anyway...surely it's a distraction. This way we are not concentrating on the real issues. Surely that is the point of him coming out smiling with her....classic distraction technique

Reelingtheyears: here you are an Ordinary mum - but like us quite clever - amazing isn't it?

www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/07/08/my-encounter-with-the-news-of-the-world/

I hope Rebekah has a baby - she will obviously have a doting godfather lined up!

lol godfather is so apt

hunt is now writing to ofcom

RB might be asked questions by police soon

I would be very interested in why Cameron hasn't faced a vote of no confidence yet. Surely, as an 'honourable' man, he should at least have proffered his resignation?

The Dowler family are about to meet Nick Clegg. Bloody check of Cameron to fob them off with Clegg. He could at the very least make some time in his schedule to meet them himself.

the family did ask to meet the pm so he is meeting them at the end of the week. they are also meeting ed miliband

He is meeting them.

Desperate Ed's opportunism is nauseating. All this from the man that got married because it suited his political career. Yuk. Brian Paddick is beyond a joke if anyone witnessed his bizzare antics on on iacgmofh. Jumping on the bandwagon, he is just a desperate wannabe. Too much political point scoring in the name of Milly Dowler. [sceptical]

iacgmofh?

Isn't Brian Padddick the piece of Shxx who thinks that mumsnetters drinking fairtrade tea is an insult???!!!!

This is a story that is SOOOOO big it should bring down the government.They've all been up I.M.'s arse so much it 's not surprising there's been an explosion!!!!

and what about all the other utter scum who bought the paper this sunday - please come on here and tell me why you bought it (hopefully no one on mumsnet would have done this but i think i'm being a bit naive there)

I'm a Celebrity...

a few people have been trying to sell the last copy on ebay

Duh sorry i meant N.I.!!!

From that Mirror timeline:

'2010 February 24 A Culture, Media and Sport Committee report finds no evidence Coulson knew of hacking, but says it is ?inconceivable? no one apart from Goodman was aware of it.'

inconceivable, eh? Interesting...

Peston saying that notw bought telephone nos of the royal family.