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74-628: In August 2006, the News of the World ' s royal editor, Clive Goodman and a private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire , were arrested by the Metropolitan Police, and later charged with hacking the telephones of members of the royal family by accessing voicemail messages, an offence under section 79 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 . On 26 January 2007, both Goodman and Mulcaire pleaded guilty to

148-475: A Sunday edition of The Sun to replace the News of the World , and it did, on 26 February 2012. The domain names sunonsunday.co.uk , thesunonsunday.co.uk and thesunonsunday.com were registered on 5 July 2011 by News International Newspapers Limited. In early 1967, the newspaper ran a three-part feature entitled "Pop Stars and Drugs: Facts That Will Shock You". The series described alleged LSD parties hosted by

222-443: A child. The paper's decision led to some instances of action being taken against those suspected of being child sex offenders, which included several cases of mistaken identity, including one instance where a paediatrician had her house vandalised, and another where a man was confronted because he had a neck brace similar to one a paedophile was wearing when pictured. The campaign was labelled "grossly irresponsible" journalism by

296-468: A collage of past front pages. The back cover featured a quote from George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four that mentions the paper, and a recent quote from a NotW reader. The final edition also included a 48-page pullout documenting the history of the paper. On 9 July 2011, after production of the final edition wrapped, editor Colin Myler led the staff out of the building, where he held a press conference thanking

370-582: A conviction", whether for corporate liability at News Group Newspapers or for the ten journalists working for the Mirror Group. News of the World The News of the World was a weekly national " red top " tabloid newspaper published every Sunday in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the world's highest-selling English-language newspaper, and at closure still had one of

444-524: A hostile response to his bid from the Carrs and from the editor of the News of the World , Stafford Somerfield , who declared in an October 1968 front page leading article attacking Maxwell that the paper was "as British as roast beef and Yorkshire pudding ". News Ltd. arranged to swap shares in some of its minor ventures with the Carrs and by December it controlled 40% of the NOTW stock. Maxwell had been supported by

518-672: A member of the Rolling Stones allegedly took several Benzedrine tablets, displayed a piece of hashish and invited his companions back to his flat for a "smoke". The article claimed that the member was singer Mick Jagger , although the reporter had in fact been eavesdropping on guitarist Brian Jones . On 10 May 1967, Jagger, Keith Richards , and their friend art dealer Robert Fraser were arrested at Richards' Redlands estate in West Wittering and charged with possession of cannabis and amphetamines , while bandmate Jones' London house

592-466: A number of arrests. Criticism of the sentences also came from the News of the World' s future sister publication The Times , which ran an editorial entitled " Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? " in which conservative editor William Rees-Mogg surprised his readers by his unusually critical discourse on the sentencing, pointing out that Jagger had been treated far more harshly for a minor first offense than "any purely anonymous young man". On 31 July,

666-457: A private investigator paid by the paper, testified that he had been asked by the newspaper's leadership to hack voicemail accounts on its behalf. In April 2011, attorneys for the victims alleged that as many as 7,000 people had their phones hacked by the News of the World ; it was further revealed that the paper's owner, Rupert Murdoch , had attempted to pressure Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Labour Party MPs to "back away" from investigating

740-657: A separate edition produced in Belfast. It was also printed at a number of sites abroad including Madrid, Brussels, Cyprus and Orlando in Florida, US. In 1985, the News of the World moved out of Thomson House when the building was bought by the tycoon Robert Maxwell (and renamed Maxwell House) and, after a short spell on the Daily Express presses in Great Ancoats Street, moved to a new plant at Knowsley on Merseyside. In 2011

814-493: A television interview with David Frost after the newspaper published extracts, in late summer 1969, from the memoirs of Christine Keeler . Keeler had been a central figure in the Profumo scandal which had emerged to public scrutiny in 1963. Murdoch regretted agreeing to the interview with Frost. In February 1970, Stafford Somerfield was sacked as editor after coming into conflict with Murdoch, whose takeover he had opposed. During

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888-431: Is it?" "It's called the News of the World —I'll send you a copy", replied Riddell, and in due course did so. Next time they met Riddell said, "Well Greenwood, what do you think of my paper?" "I looked at it", replied Greenwood, "and then I put it in the waste-paper basket. And then I thought, 'If I leave it there the cook may read it'—so I burned it!" By 1912, the circulation was two million and around three million by

962-551: The Sunday Mirror , Sunday People , and The People newspapers. In November 2015 the CPS announced the closure of Operation Weeting and Operation Golding an associated investigation focussing on possible phone hacking by journalists at the Mirror group.The Director of Public Prosecutions , Alison Saunders stated that there was "insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of

1036-617: The Conservative Party throughout its history (endorsing Edward Heath in the 1970 and both 1974 elections), maintained its political posture during the early years of the Murdoch era, whereas its weekday sister The Sun did not have a definitive allegiance, (supporting Harold Wilson 's Labour Party in 1970 , Heath in February 1974 and Jeremy Thorpe 's Liberal Party in October 1974 ) until

1110-454: The High Court suggested that Ian Edmondson , a senior editor at the News of the World , was involved in work undertaken by Mulcaire. In the wake of this new evidence, News International group general manager Will Lewis was tasked with reviewing any documents relating to the 2006 Goodman case within the company's records and files. This review led Lewis to also re-examine all documents held by

1184-512: The NOTW will soon be replaced by something equally loathsome like The Sunday Sun . The paper became notorious for chequebook journalism , as it was often discovered attempting to buy stories, typically concerning private affairs and relationships, of people closely involved with figures of public interest such as politicians, celebrities and high-profile criminals. With this intention, the paper on occasion paid key witnesses in criminal trials such as

1258-770: The News Chronicle closed. The move to Thomson House led to the immediate closure of the Empire News , a paper printed there and mainly circulating in the North of England and Wales with a circulation of about 2.5 million. Officially the Empire News and News of the World merged but Thomson House was already printing the Sunday Pictorial (to become the Sunday Mirror ) and Sunday Times and did not have any further capacity with

1332-542: The News of the World arriving. The paper's motto was "All human life is there". The paper's name was linked with sports events as early as 1903 when the golfing tournament The News of the World Match Play Championship began (now under British PGA auspices). The News of the World Darts Championship existed from 1927 on a regional basis and became a national tournament from 1947 to 1990. There

1406-413: The News of the World established itself as the most widely read Sunday paper, with initial sales of around 12,000 copies a week. Sales then suffered because the price was not cut following the abolition of newspaper taxes and the paper was soon no longer among the leading Sunday titles, selling around 30,000 by 1880, a greater number but a smaller proportion, as newspaper sales had grown hugely. The title

1480-512: The News of the World had become the biggest-selling newspaper in the world with a weekly sale of 8,441,000 and individual editions sold over 9 million copies. As with other Sunday newspapers , the News of the World was published on Saturday whenever Christmas Day fell on Sunday. The newspaper passed into the hands of Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd. in 1969, following a year-long struggle with Robert Maxwell 's Pergamon Press . Maxwell's Czech origin, combined with his political opinions, provoked

1554-498: The News of the World – specifically, his own articles – contributed significantly to her suicide. In 2011, the paper knowingly used private investigators to gain stories from corrupt police officers. The British Press Awards : Home Affairs Select Committee The Home Affairs Select Committee is a departmental select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of

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1628-520: The 1966 Moors murders case, and the 1999 trial of Gary Glitter on charges of assaulting an underage teenage fan. The paper began a controversial campaign to name and shame alleged paedophiles in July 2000, following the abduction and murder of Sarah Payne in West Sussex. During the trial of her killer Roy Whiting , it emerged that he had a previous conviction for abduction and sexual assault against

1702-589: The House of Commons orders changes to be made in terms of membership of select committees, as proposed by the Committee of Selection . Such changes are shown below. From June 2010 chairs of select committees have been directly elected by a secret ballot of the whole House of Commons using the alternative vote system. Candidates with the fewest votes are eliminated and their votes redistributed until one remaining candidate has more than half of valid votes. Elections are held at

1776-509: The House of Commons, although it does have the power to meet away from Westminster. At the end of each inquiry, the committee will normally agree on a report based on the evidence received. Such reports are published and made available on the internet. Reports usually contain recommendations to the government and other bodies. By convention, the government responds to reports within about two months of publication. These responses are also published. Recent inquiries have included: Membership of

1850-505: The Jackson family (25% shareholders), but Murdoch had gained the support of the Carr family (30%) and then-chairman William Carr. In January 1969, Maxwell's bid was rejected at a shareholders' meeting where half of those present were company staff, temporarily given voting shares. It was Murdoch's first Fleet Street acquisition. Maxwell accused Murdoch of employing "the laws of the jungle" to acquire

1924-588: The Moody Blues and attended by top stars including the Who 's Pete Townshend and Cream 's Ginger Baker , and alleged admissions of drug use by leading pop musicians. The first article targeted Donovan (who was raided and charged soon after); the second installment (published on 5 February) targeted the Rolling Stones . A reporter who contributed to the story spent an evening at the exclusive London club Blaise's, where

1998-497: The Popular Press (Gollancz, 1996), says that the News of the World of the 1890s was "a very fine paper indeed". The paper was not without its detractors, though. As one writer later related: Frederick Greenwood , editor of The Pall Mall Gazette , met in his club one day Lord Riddell, who died a few years ago, and in the course of conversation Riddell said to him, "You know, I own a paper." "Oh, do you?" said Greenwood, "what

2072-595: The United Kingdom . The Home Affairs Committee is one of the House of Commons select committees related to government departments: its terms of reference are to examine "the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Home Office and its associated public bodies". The committee chooses its own subjects of inquiry, within the overall terms of reference. It invites written evidence from interested parties and holds public evidence sessions, usually in committee rooms at

2146-531: The appeals court overturned Richards' conviction, and Jagger's sentence was reduced to a conditional discharge . Brian Jones' trial took place in November 1967; in December, after appealing the original prison sentence, Jones was fined £1,000, put on three years' probation and ordered to seek professional help. Commenting on the closure in 2011 of the newspaper against which he had led protests 44 years earlier, Farren

2220-403: The charges and were sentenced to four and six months imprisonment respectively. On the same day, it was announced that Andy Coulson had resigned as editor of the News of the World . In 2007, that appeared to be the end of the News of the World royal phone hacking scandal . In July 2009, The Guardian newspaper published a series of allegations that a culture of phone hacking went far beyond

2294-523: The cheapest newspaper of its time and was aimed directly at the newly literate working classes. It quickly established itself as a purveyor of titillation, shock, and criminal news. Much of the source material came from coverage of vice prosecutions, including lurid transcripts of police descriptions of alleged brothels, streetwalkers , and "immoral" women. In 1924 the newspaper sponsored the 1924 Women's Olympiad held at Stamford Bridge in London. Before long,

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2368-425: The committee is as follows: Diana Johnson was elected chair on 15 December 2021. The members were as follows: The chair was elected on 12 July 2017, with the members of the committee being announced on 11 September 2017. The chair was elected on 18 June 2015, with members being announced on 8 July 2015. The chair was elected on 10 June 2010, with members being announced on 12 July 2010. Occasionally,

2442-406: The company immediately refer the matter to the police; News International did. The Crown Prosecution Service announced an immediate review of the evidence collected during the Metropolitan Police's original investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World , before the Metropolitan Police announced on 26 January 2011 that it was launching Operation Weeting, a new and fresh investigation into

2516-460: The daughter of the actor Denholm Elliott . He stated, "The going rate for that kind of thing might have been two to five hundred pounds and that would have been authorised, and he [i.e., the police officer] would have been paid... and he would have been on the lookout for another story..." The articles described Elliott's destitute situation and stated that she had worked as a prostitute. Jennifer Elliott took her own life in 2003. In McMullan's opinion,

2590-743: The early 1920s. Sales reached four million by 1939. This success encouraged other similar newspapers, of which The Sunday People , the Daily Mail , the Daily Express and the Daily Mirror are still being published. In 1928, the paper began printing in Manchester on the presses of the News Chronicle in Derby Street, moving in 1960 into Thomson House, Withy Grove (formerly known as Kemsley House) when

2664-512: The entire phone hacking affair. In its initial months of existence, Operation Weeting had around 45 officers working on it. In a report to Parliament on 20 July 2011, the Home Affairs Select Committee of the House of Commons recommended that additional resources be made available to the operation in order to speed up its progress; later the same day, the Metropolitan Police announced that the number of officers assigned to Weeting

2738-428: The football agent Sky Andrew , actress Sienna Miller , actor Steve Coogan , television presenter Chris Tarrant and football pundit Andy Gray . Respect politician George Galloway , who was not an MP at the time, stated that the Metropolitan Police told him they had evidence he was among those targeted by Mulcaire. In the course of one of these litigation proceedings, that brought by Sienna Miller, papers lodged in

2812-625: The four decades of Murdoch's ownership, the newspaper had to frequently defend itself against libel charges as well as complaints to the Press Council (later the Press Complaints Commission ) on accusations of certain news-gathering techniques, such as entrapment , and contentious campaigns. Some of the better-known of these were the "Bob and Sue" case with reporter Neville Thurlbeck , and various cases involving journalist Mazher Mahmood . The newspaper, which had generally supported

2886-434: The highest English-language circulations. It was originally established as a broadsheet by John Browne Bell, who identified crime, sensation and vice as the themes that would sell most copies. The Bells sold to Henry Lascelles Carr in 1891; in 1969, it was bought from the Carrs by Rupert Murdoch 's media firm News Limited . In 1984, as News Limited reorganised into News International , a subsidiary of News Corporation ,

2960-543: The investigations, documentation provided to Operation Weeting suggested that some police personnel may have accepted "inappropriate payments" from news organisations in return for classified information. As a result, the Metropolitan Police Service opened an additional investigation, Operation Elveden , which is also being led by Deputy Assistant Commissioner Akers. By 13 March 2012, 23 people had been arrested as part of Operation Weeting. The sequence of arrests

3034-505: The kidnap plot. This led to an investigation by Scotland Yard on News of the World called Operation Canopus. In August 2010, Mahmood posed as the "Fake Sheikh" to expose a cricket bookie named Mazhar Majeed who claimed Pakistani cricketers had committed spot-fixing during Pakistan's 2010 tour of England. In November 2011, Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif were found guilty by a London court on criminal charges relating to spot-fixing. Mohammad Amir and Majeed had entered guilty pleas on

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3108-611: The late 1970s when it became a Tory bastion. Both newspapers would later endorse Tony Blair 's New Labour during the late 1990s and early 2000s before switching back to the Conservatives during David Cameron 's leadership. Starting in 1981, a magazine supplement ( Sunday ) was included with the paper and, in 1984, the newspaper changed from broadsheet to tabloid format. The paper was printed in Hertfordshire , Liverpool, Dinnington near Sheffield, Portsmouth, Glasgow and Dublin, with

3182-402: The latter jailed for phone hacking in 2007. The former executive editor Neil Wallis was arrested on 15 July 2011 and former editor Rebekah Brooks , the tenth person held in custody, on 17 July 2011. During a visit to London on 17 February 2012, Murdoch announced he was soon to launch a Sunday edition of The Sun , which acted as a replacement to the News of the World . On 19 February 2012, it

3256-618: The legal firm Harbottle & Lewis , who had defended News International against an unfair dismissal case brought by Clive Goodman in 2007, in which he discovered questionable material. Lewis passed this material to a second legal firm, Hickman Rose , who in turn asked the former Director of Public Prosecutions Ken Macdonald to examine the evidence and report his findings to the News International board. Macdonald's report found evidence of indirect hacking, breaches of national security and serious crime, which led Macdonald to recommend that

3330-469: The light of any new evidence, with regards to potentially reopening the investigation. In a single 8-hour meeting, Yates decided not to take any further action. In the wake of the police deciding not to instigate legal proceedings, several public figures who had allegedly been hacked began litigation proceedings against the News of the World' s owner News International , and against the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire. Those who began legal action included

3404-403: The newspaper announced that it was offering a record-breaking reward of £250,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the murders of five prostitutes around Ipswich , Suffolk. The reward went unclaimed; Steve Wright was arrested on suspicion of murder six days later following the use of unrelated information to link him to the murders. He

3478-779: The newspaper transformed into a tabloid and became the Sunday sister paper of The Sun . The News of the World concentrated in particular on celebrity scoops, gossip and populist news. Its somewhat prurient focus on sex scandals gained it the nickname Screws of the World . In its last decade it had a reputation for exposing celebrities' drug use, sexual peccadilloes, or criminal acts , by using insiders and journalists in disguise to provide video or photographic evidence, and covert phone hacking in ongoing police investigations. Sales averaged 2,812,005 copies per week in October 2010. From 2006, allegations of phone hacking began to engulf

3552-407: The newspaper. These culminated in the revelation on 4 July 2011 that, nearly a decade earlier, a private investigator hired by the newspaper had intercepted the voicemail of missing British teenager Milly Dowler , who was later found murdered. Amid a public backlash and the withdrawal of advertising, News International announced the closure of the newspaper on 7 July 2011. The scandal deepened when

3626-531: The next day pending appeal. The News of the World was rapidly identified by the hippy counterculture as the prime culprit for the imprisonments, which were seen as an attempt by the Establishment to send a collective message to a hedonistic young generation. International Times and activist and musician Mick Farren organised protests outside the Fleet Street offices of the newspaper. Protesters informed

3700-600: The paper and said he had "made a fair and bona fide offer... which has been frustrated and defeated after three months of [cynical] manoeuvring." Murdoch denied this, arguing the shareholders of the News of the World Group had "judged [his] record in Australia." Illness removed Sir William Carr from the chairmanship in June 1969, and Murdoch succeeded him. Murdoch came under severe criticism in

3774-420: The paper was alleged to have hacked into the phones of families of British service personnel killed in action. Senior figures on the newspaper have been held for questioning by police investigating the phone hacking and corruption allegations, alongside former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan . Arrested on 8 July 2011 were former editor Andy Coulson and former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman ,

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3848-455: The paper's staff that their objective was "freeing the fucking Stones and closing down the fucking News of the World ". Farren later credited his colleague Sue Miles with identifying the paper as a target for protest because, as she put it, "they were the bastards who started this" (with their feature on drugs in music). Farren reported that a second night of protests was broken up by officers from City of London Police , who beat him up and made

3922-708: The police had contacted only 170 of the 3,870 people named in Glenn Mulcaire 's files to date. There were 11,000 pages of the evidence with 5,000 landline phone numbers and 4,000 mobile phone numbers. on them inside the so-called "Glenn Mulcaire files". At the Leveson Inquiry on 6 February 2012, it was confirmed by Robert Jay QC that there are 6,349 potential victims of phone hacking. He also said that in Mulcaire's notes there were 4,375 names with phone numbers alongside. DAC Akers said that there are 829 "likely" victims. During

3996-456: The regular stamp-out-these-hippie-dope-fiends "exposés" that fueled the dangerous red-faced ire of all the saloon bar tweed blowhards who "only read the paper for the sports" and not the weekly catalogue of rape cases. And then, of course, the whole game was played all over again against John Rotten and his ilk in the punk era. Rupert Murdoch has closed down his disgusting organ and I hope its memory will yellow and decay. Unfortunately, I suspect

4070-475: The remaining 26 pence for each copy went to retailers selling the paper and to wholesalers. Shutting the newspaper cost News Group Newspapers around £240m. The government of the United Kingdom said it had no role in the decision. James Murdoch claimed that the company was fully co-operating with ongoing police investigations. The edition of 10 July 2011 of the News of the World carried its final headline, "Thank You & Goodbye", superimposed on top of

4144-517: The right direction and I think we are." On 23 July 2012, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced that charges would be brought against eight people in relation to phone hacking. According to press reports, the list of the eight individuals to be charged was as follows: Rebekah Brooks , Andy Coulson , Stuart Kuttner , Glenn Mulcaire , Greg Miskiw , Ian Edmondson , Neville Thurlbeck and James Weatherup . A new round of arrests

4218-462: The same charges. In a September 2010 interview broadcast on 7 July 2011 on the BBC Radio 4 news programme The World at One , former News of the World features editor Paul McMullan made an admission relating to police corruption. He told of having used material obtained by a colleague's bribery of a police officer as the basis of a series of articles published over several years on Jennifer Elliott,

4292-473: The scandal. Three journalists on the newspaper were initially arrested: Ian Edmondson and Neville Thurlbeck on 5 April and James Weatherup on 14 April. The newspaper "unreservedly" apologised for its phone hacking activities during April 2011. On 4 July 2011, it was disclosed that potential evidence had been deleted in spring 2002 from the hacked voicemail account of Milly Dowler , then missing, but later found to have been murdered. On 13 December 2006,

4366-505: The single case of Goodman and Mulcaire's hacking of the royal household. It was alleged that a much wider range of people across different areas of public life, including the former deputy prime minister John Prescott , the Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson , politicians Tessa Jowell and Boris Johnson , publicist Max Clifford and even Rebekah Brooks , then editor of the News of the World' s sister paper The Sun , had been

4440-417: The staff and its readers, concluding, "In the best tradition, we are going to the pub." The paper's final, and unattributed, editorial, stated that "Phones were hacked, and for that this newspaper is truly sorry... there is no justification for this appalling wrongdoing." The final edition sold 3.8 million copies, about a million more than usual. There was soon speculation that News International would launch

4514-522: The then editor, Colin Myler, described it as "the greatest newspaper in the world" as it had won four awards at the British Press Awards. The award for News Reporter of the Year, went to Mazher Mahmood, the "fake sheikh" who hides his identity, for his exposé of corruption in the cricketing world. The paper also won top show-business reporter and magazine of the year. It was rumoured that NotW could even win

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4588-427: The then- chief constable of Gloucestershire , Tony Butler. From the nineties until the newspaper’s demise in 2011, reporters at the paper used private investigators to illegally gain access to hundreds of mobile phone voicemail accounts held by a variety of people of interest to the newspaper. In 2007 the paper's royal correspondent, Clive Goodman , pleaded guilty to illegal interception of personal communication and

4662-430: The top award, Newspaper of the Year. It was announced on 7 July 2011 that, after 168 years in print, the newspaper would print its final edition on 10 July 2011 following revelations of the ongoing phone hacking scandal , with the loss of 200 jobs. The paper announced that all profits from the final edition – 74 pence out of the £1 cover price – would go to "good causes", and advertising space would be given to charities;

4736-560: The victim of hacking ordered by the News of the World . The News of the World and its parent News Corporation strongly denied the allegations, and called on The Guardian to share any evidence it had with the police. In the wake of the allegations, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sir Paul Stephenson asked the force's Assistant Commissioner John Yates to review the original 2006 investigation in

4810-557: Was also a News of the World Championship in snooker from 1950 to 1959 which eclipsed the official professionals' competition for a number of years. In athletics, the Emsley Carr Mile race was started in 1953 in memory of the former editor, and is still run annually. The paper's Football Annual was a long-standing publication (sponsoring it until 2008), and a Household Guide and Almanac was also published at one time. By 1950,

4884-522: Was also raided by police and he was arrested and charged with cannabis possession along with his friend Stanislas "Stash" Klossowski, son of French artist Balthus . Jagger and Richards were tried at the end of June. On 29 June, Jagger was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for possession of four amphetamine tablets; Richards was found guilty of allowing cannabis to be smoked on his property and sentenced to one year in prison. Both Jagger and Richards were imprisoned at that point, but were released on bail

4958-448: Was announced that the first edition of The Sun on Sunday would be printed on 26 February 2012. It would employ some former News of the World journalists. The newspaper was first published as The News of the World on 1 October 1843, by John Browne Bell in London. Priced at three pence (equal to £1.55 in 2023), even before the repeal of the Stamp act (1855) or paper duty (1861), it was

5032-462: Was as follows: On 15 September 2011, the newly appointed Commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Bernard Hogan-Howe , announced that he had requested that Durham police carry out an independent review of the evidence collected by Operation Weeting. Hogan-Howe said that he had asked the team, led by Durham chief constable Jon Stoddart , "to have a look at the inquiry to reassure us we are going in

5106-554: Was found guilty of all five murders at his trial 14 months later and sentenced to life imprisonment . In 2002, Mazher Mahmood , an undercover reporter working for the News of the World , also known as the Fake Sheikh, allegedly exposed a plot to kidnap Victoria Beckham . Five men were arrested but the trial later collapsed when it emerged News of the World had paid its main witness Florim Gashi £10,000 to work with Mazher Mahmood. Florim Gashi later admitted working with Mahmood to set up

5180-460: Was in triumphant mood: The British counterculture and The News Of The World have had an adversarial relationship that goes back for almost half a century. I recall, way back in 1967, being beaten bloody by police outside the NOTW offices in London's Fleet Street while protesting the newspaper's part in the jailing of Keith Richards and Mick Jagger after the Redlands drug bust. And then there were

5254-476: Was jailed for four months; the paper's editor, Andy Coulson , had resigned two weeks earlier. In 2009/2010, further revelations emerged on the extent of the phone hacking, and how it was common knowledge within the News of the World and its News International parent. According to a former reporter at the paper, "Everyone knew. The office cat knew", about the illegal activities used to scoop stories. On 17 January 2011, The Guardian reported that Glenn Mulcaire,

5328-459: Was made in early 2013, with the arrest of six former News of the World journalists on 13 February, bringing the total number of people arrested as part of Operation Weeting to 32. On 14 March 2013, officers from Operation Weeting made a series of arrests. BBC News reported that those arrested were journalists that were or had been associated with Mirror Group Newspapers . The Guardian reported that those arrested were, or had been, associated with

5402-581: Was sold by the Bell family in 1891 to Henry Lascelles Carr who owned the Welsh Western Mail . As editor, he installed his nephew Emsley Carr , who held the post for 50 years. The real engine of the paper's now quick commercial success, however, was George Riddell , who reorganised its national distribution using local agents. Matthew Engel , in his book Tickle the Public: One Hundred Years of

5476-495: Was to be increased to its current level of 60. On 6 February 2012, DAC Akers appeared at the Leveson Inquiry and said that there were a total of 90 police officers working on Operation Weeting. It is believed that around 3,000 people may have had their phones hacked, a figure that was confirmed by DAC Akers at an evidence session of the Home Affairs Select Committee on 12 July 2011. At the same evidence session, Akers confirmed

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