I saw this this morning and was going to post but remembered that you almost always do so. It made me think that there might be a place here for an obituary thread, so that all these fine men and women will be gathered together in one place on the forum.

Inkworm – you omitted The Times – what was on its front page? Mind you Sky has not been slow to fill the airwaves with the story!

Absolutely right and I briefly heard an ex-journalist, whose name I did not catch, saying how reprehensible the phone hacking was but that certain things were acceptable and practised by him, one of which included paying the police for information. I was amazed that the interviewer made no comment. But then he is a journalist!!!:(

I sense that an extremely large can of worms is in the process of being opened.

Picking up on that last point. Any journalist who accepts that pressure to further his own career is to be despised. It is exactly that which has degraded the standards of the “profession” and management pressures would soon be withdrawn if they were resisted. Sorry, but it is inexcusable.

Was that Kipling? About whom was he commenting – Beaverbrook? Whomever it was, it remains truer than ever.

Kabir – if you cannot divulge a saga, it sounds a bit more than a tiff!;)

Words fail me……I find it impossible to believe what we are hearing.

If I gave that impresssion in my posts it was unintentional. I wholeheartedly endorse the last sentence of your first paragraph, which is why I referred to prosecutions in an earlier post.

And as for the Dowler family – their situation is appalling. And now we are hearing that the mobile of a parent of one of the 7/7 victims was hacked. How much more do we not yet know?

As you say, Kev, it is one tragedy upon another and I only hope that the full weight of the law is brought to bear on ALL those who are found culpable.