Sensational news in the UK. A few minutes ago it was announced that the controversial tabloid paper the News Of The World - owned by Rupert Murdoch, owner of Sky News, will be closing after this Sunday.

This comes after allegations of phone hacking - first into stars mobiles and now more sickly into the phones of murder victims and dead soldiers.

The paper is the biggest selling single edition in the UK and is very powerful, as Mick n Keith found to their detriment in 67.

More soon.

[www.newsoftheworld.co.uk]



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Bloody hell. I can't believe it!

DAMN GOOD NEWS !!! - Sometimes the Good Guys WIN !!!



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The phone hacking thing is probably just the tip of a very dubious iceberg.

Good riddance to a lousy newspaper.

44 years too late.

You see what happens when ya mess with the Stones? (I thought I would beat colonial to the punch.) That aside, I wish this meant an end to the sort of "journalism' that the NOTW was infamous for. Regrettably it won't. Not as long as their a demand for such cal...

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His Majesty
The phone hacking thing is probably just the tip of a very dubious iceberg.

Good riddance to a lousy newspaper.

Damn right. I wonder what other allegations were about to come out. Maybe they walked before they were made to run.

Smart move by Murdoch to save his head.

Sure, the bad apples and weasels deserve a lot worse than being fired, but a whole bunch of people like admin assistants, printers, distributors, the guy who sweeps the floor at night, etc. etc. who had nothing to do with these scandals will now be out of work.

Murdoch. What a guy.



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We'll probably get "The Sun on Sunday" or something similar within a fortnight.

"Please be assured that, as Editor, I will do everything in my power to restore the News of the World's reputation for fair, accurate and, most importantly, responsible journalism."

he forgot to add LOL at the end.

Rubert Murdoch is a RAT ANUS

Glad I never read this bloody paper diaper

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Silver Dagger
A few minutes ago it was announced that the controversial tabloid paper the News Of The World - owned by Rupert Murdoch, owner of Sky News, will be closing after this Sunday.

Where can I find this announcement? Their own website doesn't mention anything about closing down (at the time of writing).

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His Majesty
The phone hacking thing is probably just the tip of a very dubious iceberg.

Good riddance to a lousy newspaper.

+1 times the Nth degree

But I fear Sleepy City is right about the Sun on Sunday. Meh.



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Silver Dagger
A few minutes ago it was announced that the controversial tabloid paper the News Of The World - owned by Rupert Murdoch, owner of Sky News, will be closing after this Sunday.

Where can I find this announcement? Their own website doesn't mention anything about closing down (at the time of writing).

Try the BBC:

[www.bbc.co.uk]

Good riddance

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FreeBird
Where can I find this announcement? Their own website doesn't mention anything about closing down (at the time of writing).

Here ya go FreeBird: [abcnews.go.com]

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CrissCrossMind
Rubert Murdoch is a RAT ANUS

He is that and every other possible sleazy dirtbag description you can think of. A loathsome human being.

As somebody posted we will just have the Sun On Sunday within a few months. Given that the Sun is the biggest selling paper in the UK it means that the Sun brand will be extended to Sunday and probably sell more copies than the News of The World did.

So Murdoch looks like he is taking firm action but he wins because he will end up selling more papers.

Having said all that - good riddance to the NOW.

Now if they's only shut down Murdoch'd other cesspool - Fox "News".

Can't believe this purveyor of muck and fear now owns the venerable Wall Street Journal.



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So sorry...it was a great album...

Amazing news though...I remember this rag being referred to as the 'News of the screws' back in the early '70's....finally screwed itself...Ha..........Re-incarnation someway down the line probaly..................



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His Majesty
The phone hacking thing is probably just the tip of a very dubious iceberg.

If a schlocky paper is doing this type of crap... I wonder who/what/where else is too?

The WSJ is the best paper in the States.

This one is gonna run. Police bungs, government involvement, interferences in how trials ran.....

Latest news is that former editor Andy Coulsen, an ex-Sun showbiz hack who had a meteoric rise to the top, is to be arrested because he allegedly knew phones were being tapped while he was at the helm of the paper.
Coulsen went on to head the Conservative Party's communications team.

[www.dailymail.co.uk]

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This one is gonna run. Police bungs, government involvement, interferences in how trials ran.....

Yes, indeed. There are allegations that police were paid off for passing on highly confidential information to the News of the World reporters to give the paper a reporting advantage on top stories, particularly murder cases. I'm sure it goes on at papers round the world but the NotW were particularly ruthless.

More here.

[www.dailymail.co.uk]

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Baxter Thwaites
As somebody posted we will just have the Sun On Sunday within a few months.

Apparently that domain name was registered 2 days ago!

Here's some archive stuff on the infamous Redlands bust in 1967.

[thehistoryofrockmusic.com]

And a great website dedicated to the bust.

[redlandsbust.blogspot.com]

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Baxter Thwaites
As somebody posted we will just have the Sun On Sunday within a few months.

Apparently that domain name was registered 2 days ago!

Interesting one that. There's a paper in Newcastle called the Sunday Sun. I'm sure their lawyers are in conference right now.

They can't possibly hire the same reporters. The public won't buy that and more importantly the advertisers won't. It was major advertisers that pulled their business away that led to the paper closing down. You can't recover from bad press like that.