It was announced on Thursday 7th July that The News of the World was to close. This came after days of allegations that the NOTW was involved in phone hacking. The latest allegations did not, however, involve celebrities they were the mobile phone of missing teenager Milly Dowler, the family of murdered child Jessica Chapman, allegedly the phones of families of the 7?7 bombing victims. The list seemed to go on and on.
Despite these despicable practices and the following media and public backlash no one expected the announcement that the newspaper was to close.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/comment/editors-corner/end-one-era-likely-beginning-very-similar-one-093339939.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/08/news-of-the-world-phone-hacking-scandal
http://www.pcc.org.uk/
http://www.pcc.org.uk/news/index.html?article=NzI0NQ==
