General Chat

They won,t let Brooks go, She knows where the Bones are Buried so they dare,nt. Its a pity that the unfortunate ones ar loosing their jobs, I hope they will be properly recompensed for it,if not go to an Industrial Tribunal for unfair dismissal. Interesting to know that the Met knew about all this years ago and did nothing about it,Shades of Brown Envelopes.and look out for the Sun on Sunday,they,ve already taken out three web sites for them.As for the Editors responsible for it going and joining the bent MPs in the nick,the only way they can meet all of them would be to imprison them in the Houses of Parliament.( Then get Guy Fawkes to complete his Job.**M**

Not all of this happened several years ago, it seems. Take a look at the alleged hacking of the grieving families of servicemen. When did this take place (if indeed it did, it's still only rumour), and when did it stop, if it has stopped.

Yes I do believe the NOTW (and therefore the Sun IMO) are not the only ones to have used unscrupulous methods to gain information for cheap and sensationalist reports, and these will possibly be uncovered in due course. If you notice, most of the dailies are not making too big an issue of the whole thing, they are reporting on it all very carefully...and I would imagine that they are looking over their shoulders as I type. I can hear the rumble of many shredders too ;-)

At least the paper recycling industry will benefit in the coming weeks :-D

Rita, I'm sure you are right - it seems that the NOTW were more adept at it than others.....!

We sould also bear in mind that all this happened several years ago and most if not all the staff who were at it have now gone. This was emphasised by a NOTW employee on the news this morning who also mentioned that current staff were under threat of instant dismissal these days if they even gave this sort of behavious a thought.

The big issue to my mind surrounds what the management knew about it at the time and if they did know it was going on, why did they turn a blind eye. Hopefully this will now come out in the enquiries that are being set up.

Off subject a bit but it did bring back a memory of one poor games teacher to teach us the bits the News of the World had omitted. Her job was in no way made easier by the group of girls in the back who were singing 'The Menstrual Flow to the War Has Gone'!

Sharron - no, we had no sex education.

I was found under a head of cabbage, my mother told me. I wouldn't eat cabbage till I was 23 for fear of making some other baby homeless.

My sister was delivered in a matchbox & all my cousins were found in a potato patch.

The family of eight next door kept chickens but my dad reckoned they were really storks with their feet worn down to their knees because of the number of times they landed in the back yard delivering babies.

I was also at an all girls Grammar in the early 60s and I have never read any of the tripe newspapers. My Father was a proof reader at the Express so that's the only paper we had.

Our sex education in year 1 was perfectly adequate...lolol

Own up now. Who else owes much of their early sex education to reading the News of the World illicitly on a Sunday.

I was at a girls grammar school in the sixties and our Monday conversation consisted mostly of taking apart the stories we had read the day before in the News of the Screws.

It could explain a lot!

I suspect that the demise of TNOTW is just the initial warning of a newspaper Tsunami.

Watch out for the bigger Tsunami which will surely follow. Move up to higher ground immediately.

oh,,,no more dirty undercover work then or shameful reporting and behaviour from reporters what smashing karma!,,,,,))))))


never buy a daily or sunday paper so of little loss to me...

i wonder if mystic meg saw this coming? :-P

It's not often we see a newspaper being front-page news in it's own publication.

Perhaps 'Joe Public' will now be treated with a little honour, dignity & respect - for a time at least. In America, they call that 'service experience'.

I am so chuffed to see the papers' power shaking :-)

There's a rather good profile on Coulson by the Guardian prior to the election, so are we wondering about the wisdom of his position with the govt with hindsight, or is it just stating the bleedin' obvious?

eeeeee by eck.....evil breeds off evil and watch them turn on their own....

Coulson set up page3.com, (according to Wiki) I wonder if that was on his CV?

Yep, poor judgement goes for both sides of the house Muffy, particularly in regard to the press. I would guess their philosophy is keeping friends close and enemies closer! Unfortunately its all come back and bitten them on the b*m. In fact, it's been gnawing away at them for a while.

LMAO TW..have you read up on Red Ed's spin doctor Tom Baldwin !!!....Not being partisan or anything ... it just seems to me that the best way to succeed in the spinning war is to hire someone who has worked on the *other side* of the industry....x

That only goes to reiterate the question over the Prime Minister's judgement in taking Andy Coulson on as Press Advisor...

i would be on the next helecopter
to south america if i was andy coulson

Ooooo tis all hotting up.

Breaking news on Sky...Andy Coulson told by police he will be arrested in relation to phone hacking scandal tomorrow!!!