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[maypaxvobiscum]

if the advertisers all pull out (and the signs are they will) the News of the World will folk within a month.

Hopefully the police will have started arresting some of these low lifes and make an example of the lot of them

it's already happened.

Click here.

[Igor Zidane]

Always was the sunday s*n ,now it is in name . No different f.uckin scum .

[metalhead]

Always was the sunday s*n ,now it is in name . No different f.uckin scum .

NOTW shut down and going to merge with s*n to form sunday s*n?wtf

[lakes10]

Always was the sunday s*n ,now it is in name . No different f.uckin scum .

NOTW shut down and going to merge with s*n to form sunday s*n?wtf

add sky sports news and sky news to it aswell they all come under the same owner.

[Igor Zidane]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14070733

News of the World to close amid hacking scandal


    News of the World to close
    James Murdoch: Statement in full
    Reaction to NoW closure

This Sunday's issue of the News of the World will be the last edition of the paper, News International chairman James Murdoch has said.

In the past few days, claims have been made that the paper authorised hacking into the mobile phones of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler and the families of 7/7 bombing victims.

Mr Murdoch said proceeds from the last edition would go to good causes.

Downing Street said it had no role or involvement in the decision.

The News of the World is the UK's biggest selling newspaper and has been in circulation for 168 years.

No advertisements will run in this weekend's paper - instead any advertising space will be donated to charities and good causes.

News International has refused to comment on rumours that The Sun could now become a seven-day-a-week operation.

"What happens to The Sun is a matter for the future", a spokeswoman for News International said. The Sun, another News International tabloid, is currently published from Monday to Saturday.

The spokeswoman also refused to say whether the 200 or so employees at the paper would be made redundant, saying: "They will be invited to apply for other jobs in the company."
'Serious regret'

In a statement made to staff, Mr Murdoch said the good things the News of the World did "have been sullied by behaviour that was wrong - indeed, if recent allegations are true, it was inhuman and has no place in our company".

"The News of the World is in the business of holding others to account. But it failed when it came to itself."

He went on: "In 2006, the police focused their investigations on two men. Both went to jail. But the News of the World and News International failed to get to the bottom of repeated wrongdoing that occurred without conscience or legitimate purpose.

"Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad and this was not fully understood or adequately pursued.


    Just as I acknowledge we have made mistakes, I hope you and everyone inside and outside the company will acknowledge that we are doing our utmost to fix them”

James Murdoch News International chairman

"As a result, the News of the World and News International wrongly maintained that these issues were confined to one reporter.

"We now have voluntarily given evidence to the police that I believe will prove that this was untrue and those who acted wrongly will have to face the consequences. This was not the only fault.

"The paper made statements to Parliament without being in the full possession of the facts. This was wrong.

"The company paid out-of-court settlements approved by me. I now know that I did not have a complete picture when I did so. This was wrong and is a matter of serious regret."

He said: "So, just as I acknowledge we have made mistakes, I hope you and everyone inside and outside the company will acknowledge that we are doing our utmost to fix them, atone for them, and make sure they never happen again.

"Having consulted senior colleagues, I have decided that we must take further decisive action with respect to the paper. This Sunday will be the last issue of the News of the World."

He reiterated that the company was fully co-operating with the two ongoing police investigations.

He added: "While we may never be able to make up for distress that has been caused, the right thing to do is for every penny of the circulation revenue we receive this weekend to go to organisations that improve life in Britain and are devoted to treating others with dignity."

Labour MP Tom Watson told Sky News it was "a victory for decent people up and down the land, and I say good riddance to the News of the World".

But Justice Secretary Ken Clarke said: "All they're going to do is rebrand it" and former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott, who alleged his phone was hacked, thought the decision was simply a gimmick.

[Greavesie]

haha good times

the s*ns next!!

[Benny The Noon]

They will just print under a new name and nothing will be different

[Greavesie]

feck em, nobody wants their sh!te anymore so they can try that it doesnt change the fact they're scum

[metalhead]

They will just print under a new name and nothing will be different

agreed

[SouthCoastShankly]

They will just print under a new name and nothing will be different

Exactly, within the last couple of days the domain www.thesunonsunday.com has been registered.

You do the math

[Dundalk]

So just like Stringer Bell changed the name of his heroin to keep selling it, Murdoch's gonna rebrand the NOTW as the S*n on Sunday   

[Boocity]

They will just print under a new name and nothing will be different

Exactly, within the last couple of days the domain www.thesunonsunday.com has been registered.

You do the math

I can't see the other papers letting him get off that easy or the advertisers

I think the only option for the notw is to be sold, it is after all a very old paper

[Reg]

Clearly Murdoch had already decided the NOTW neede a revamp/relaunch and has simply brought it forward. Its a bit too quick and smarmy if you ask me.

They should have admitted their faults, decided the only way forward was to let the NOTW sink and launch a new paper on the higher moral ground.

To just pop up out of the box and declare 'ok fack it, its dead' is tacky to say the least.

Another example of how thinly disguised their contempt for public opinion is.

[aCe']

Clearly Murdoch had already decided the NOTW neede a revamp/relaunch and has simply brought it forward. Its a bit too quick and smarmy if you ask me.

They should have admitted their faults, decided the only way forward was to let the NOTW sink and launch a new paper on the higher moral ground.

To just pop up out of the box and declare 'ok fack it, its dead' is tacky to say the least.

Another example of how thinly disguised their contempt for public opinion is.

damned if you do, damned if you don't

Im surprised it wasn't sold but at least this way it somehow maintains some of the credibility that people might have had in the other publications associated with it..

[7_Kewell]

give it a few weeks and the Sunday S*n or nearest namesake will appear....same staff as the NotW and same working ethos...i'll be surprised if anything changes.


Apparently the worst it yet to come in regards to te phone hacking...