It was the first significant admission of phone hacking by a newspaper group not owned by Rupert Murdoch, and it was regarded as significant because it confirms that the practice was widespread in parts of the British newspaper industry.
It is the first significant admission of phone hacking by a newspaper group not owned by Rupert Murdoch, and was described as significant because it confirms that the practice was widespread in parts of the British newspaper industry.
– by a newspaper group, in this case the owners of the London Evening Standard and the Independent, is London Live, the local TV station which launched this week, following the trendsetting of Norwich and Grimsby.
Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, has written to the inquiry into press ethics to suggest that the successor body to the Press Complaints Commission could become "a one-stop shop" for all news output by newspaper groups.
These trials may revive interest in how the government has responded to evidence of wrongdoing by some newspaper groups.
The cutbacks have been instituted by regional newspaper groups in order to maintain disproportionately high profit margins.
Stanistreet said the assertion was "complete cobblers" and that it was an excuse made by regional newspaper groups for their own mismanagement.
The shock move reflects Prescott's deep anger at the way plans to reform press regulation are, he believes, being watered down following intense lobbying by several newspaper groups.
He said: "The true scandal about this is that there been a sophisticated but flagrant cover-up of the extent and knowledge of this by several newspaper groups and no proper investigation by the authorities of the role of elements of the press in driving this industrial-scale theft of private information.
Increasingly professional community websites are starting to pinch readers, but they often rely on enthusiastic individuals, who are randomly scattered and may not stick around.What has certainly disappeared are the huge profit margins enjoyed by regional newspaper groups during the advertising heyday between the 1980s and early 2000s.
