Tag: “The News of the World"

• Thursday, October 31st 2013 - 20:09 UTC

  UK new regulating system for the press triggers bitter controversy

  

  Britain approved a new system of regulating its press, a move newspapers said was draconian and threatened freedom of speech but which former victims of press excess described as long overdue.

• Thursday, February 23rd 2012 - 04:30 UTC

  Wife of former PM Blair began legal action over hacking of her private phone

  

  The wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has begun legal action over the alleged interception of her private phone messages, her lawyer said on Wednesday, making her the latest public figure to be drawn into a hacking scandal that has shaken the country's media.

• Monday, December 12th 2011 - 05:00 UTC

  Murdoch’s News of the World had over 800 phones hacked, says Police

  

  More than 800 people have had their telephones illegally hacked by the now-defunct News of the World tabloid, British police investigating the alleged practice said on Saturday.

• Sunday, July 10th 2011 - 09:00 UTC

  “The News of the World” last mobile phone hacking message: “Thank You & Goodbye”

  

  The final edition of the paper engulfed in a phone hacking scandal was published today as Rupert Murdoch headed to London to try to save the bigger prize of his takeover of the British broadcaster BSkyB.

• Thursday, July 7th 2011 - 18:11 UTC

  “The News of the World” last mobile phone hacking message: end of game

  

  This Sunday's edition of London’s The News of the World will be its last, News International chairman James Murdoch has said, after days of increasingly damaging allegations against the paper.