HACKED OFF !

After 168 years and 8674 editions The News of the World closed today. This is a clear example of damage limitation and I’m sure that it’s not the only newspaper to have been involved in hacking. Two questions. Who should investigate the investigative journalists? Is this the beginning of the end for the red tops? What's really needed is a judicial inquiry set up by the government to find the culprits. This would also acquit the uncorrupt of Wapping who've all been besmirched with the same brush.

I now think that celebrities and us mere mortals of the public should join forces to launch our own tabloid that seeks out the skeletons in the closets of the tabloid press. We could call it The News of the Worm that Turned. I can just see David Beckham camping out on a journos lawn for days or Hugh Grant rummaging through an editors dustbin!

 Goodbye News of the World. The end of an error.