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

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

thats just been on the bbc

Please enlighten me. Where is the BBC getting all this information from? There isn't a trial going on.

They must be hacking the journalists' phones

I don't think it will be that hard to get info now from some of the ex-employees of News International who were abruptly sacked last week.

\link{http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/11/bskyb-deal-clegg-calls-murdoch\former Scotland Yard deputy assistant commissioner Brian Paddick...said Surrey police should have told the Dowler family that they may have been targeted}

"Apparently Surrey police knew at the time that the phone was being hacked into. Why they didn't tell the family at all ? is a matter for Surrey police to answer. What it does show is that this relationship between the police and the press is not restricted to the Metropolitan police."

So the police investigation wouldn't have been altered by the impression that Milly was still alive???

oh ffs so the police knew????

well Brian Paddick says they did, but uses the word "Apparently" so we'll have to wait & see...

this just gets worst and worst

on another note the PM has released his white paper on the nhs

Of course the police bloody knew! Why else do you think they have been so 'quiet'? There are no innocents in this and the NOTW are no worse than any other journalists who hacked phones or the police who were complicit. This is all working out nicely for Murdoch

@Lenin, yes, I thought so. I thought that that was why the royal correspondent went to prison. Is the 63 year old who was arrested the royal protection officer who provided the numbers in the first place? They would have needed the mobile numbers in the first place in order to hack into them.

Is there any evidence that they hacked into the phones of 9/11 victims?

Also, RM became an American citizen in order to fulfill requirements to own American papers. Did this mean that he had to relinquish his Australian citizenship, or does he have dual citizenship? I had thought that he was able to buy British papers as a member of a commonwealth country.

And does all of this mean that public figures will be less afraid to talk about Murdoch now that notw no longer exists to threaten to delve into their families?

And have any of the journalists who lost their jobs given their accounts of working at notw?

www.smh.com.au/world/911-victims-targeted-by-tabloid-phone-hackers-20110711-1ha90.html

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Ms. Dowler?s parents met on Monday with Mr. Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrat junior partner in Prime Minister David Cameron?s coalition government

this is the best thing i've read in ages

mollymole i did. I purchased the notw on sunday.

Just to lighten things up for a moment:

www.sabotagetimes.com/people/5-alternative-careers-for-rebekah-brooks/

ha ha

Holy cow! BBC just announced Gordon Brown's info was hacked - wait for it - including medical records about his son's cystic fibrosis. This one not by NOTW - the Sunday Times......

Brown's London lawyers, Allen & Overy, were tricked into handing over details from his file by a conman working for the Sunday Times - from #exNOTWjourno on Twitter x Bye bye Rupert it wasn't nice knowing you x

NewsCorp have asked that the bid for BSkyB be referred to the Competition Commission.

I wonder if the Sunday Times news re Gordon Brown will lead to further details coming out as to just how many newspapers were up to this?

So now we know why Mr Alton was so quick to shift blame elsewhere..

From the Guardian just now:

"In October 2006, the then editor of the Sun, Rebekah Brooks, contacted the Browns to tell them that they had obtained details from the medical file of their four-month-old son, Fraser, which revealed that the boy was suffering from cystic fibrosis. This appears to have been a clear breach of the Data Protection Act, which would allow such a disclosure only if it was in the public interest. Friends of the Browns say the call caused them immense distress, since they were only coming to terms with the diagnosis, which had not been confirmed. The Sun published the story."

Disgusting.