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| Phone hacking probe: 'Thank you & goodbye', says NoW | Phone hacking probe: 'Thank you & goodbye', says NoW |
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| The last edition of the News of the World has been finished, its front page declaring: "Thank you & goodbye." | |
| Editor Colin Myler, after leading staff from the building late on Saturday, said: "This is not where we want to be and not where we deserve to be." | |
| Publisher News International axed the 168-year-old tabloid in the wake of phone-hacking allegations last week. | |
| Rupert Murdoch is due to arrive in the UK this weekend to take charge of handling the phone-hacking crisis. | |
| During a short speech to staff outside the paper's offices in Wapping, east London, Mr Myler held up the final edition of the Sunday newspaper, saying: "As a final tribute to seven-and-a-half million readers, this is for you - and for the staff, thank you." | |
| He added: "Now, in the best traditions of Fleet Street, we are going to the pub." | |
| The News of the World (NoW) is doubling Sunday's print run to five million, with money from the sales being donated to four charities. | |
| Judge appointment call | |
| Mr Murdoch said on Saturday that the closure of the paper had been "a collective decision". | |
| And he told the Reuters news agency that News International's chief executive and former NoW editor, Rebekah Brooks, has his "total" support. | |
| The Labour party is calling for an immediate start to the judicial phone-hacking inquiry so evidence will not be lost as the News of the World closes. | |
| In a letter to the prime minister on Saturday, shadow culture secretary Ivan Lewis asked for "immediate discussions so that by the end of the day we are in a position to agree the appointment of the judge" to head one of the independent inquiries into the scandal. | |
| No 10 says it is acting "as rapidly as possible" and steps are being taken to appoint a judge to lead it. | |
| News International has said a Guardian report that millions of e-mails may have been deleted is "rubbish". | |
| The tabloid is accused of hacking into phones of crime victims, celebrities and politicians. Police have identified 4,000 possible targets. |