Claims News of the World 'hacked 7/7 family phones'
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Families of 7/7 bombing victims may have had their phones hacked by the News of the World, it has emerged.
A solicitor representing some of the relatives said one family had been contacted by police and told their phone may have been hacked in 2005.
New allegations have also emerged of payments to the police by the paper.
The tabloid's owners have passed to the police e-mails which appear to show that payments were authorised by the then editor, Andy Coulson.
Graham Foulkes, whose son David died in the Edgware Road blast, told the BBC he was contacted by officers on Tuesday after his details were found on a list as part of the police inquiry in hacking claims.
Mr Foulkes told the BBC he would like to meet News International's owner, Rupert Murdoch, to talk to him about "the power he has".
He added: "I certainly think that News International need to come clean, they need to accept their responsibility and their culpability, and they need to do the decent thing, but I suppose they won't."
In a statement, News International said: "It is correct to state that new information has recently been provided to the police.
"As News International and News Group Newspapers has reiterated many times, full and continuing co-operation has been provided to the police since the current investigation started in January 2011.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14040841
A solicitor representing some of the relatives said one family had been contacted by police and told their phone may have been hacked in 2005.
New allegations have also emerged of payments to the police by the paper.
The tabloid's owners have passed to the police e-mails which appear to show that payments were authorised by the then editor, Andy Coulson.
Graham Foulkes, whose son David died in the Edgware Road blast, told the BBC he was contacted by officers on Tuesday after his details were found on a list as part of the police inquiry in hacking claims.
Mr Foulkes told the BBC he would like to meet News International's owner, Rupert Murdoch, to talk to him about "the power he has".
He added: "I certainly think that News International need to come clean, they need to accept their responsibility and their culpability, and they need to do the decent thing, but I suppose they won't."
In a statement, News International said: "It is correct to state that new information has recently been provided to the police.
"As News International and News Group Newspapers has reiterated many times, full and continuing co-operation has been provided to the police since the current investigation started in January 2011.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14040841
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The News of the World, part of News International, and the Rupert Murdoch empire didn't get to this point by accident. Find out how it all began when in 1986 New International was moved to Wapping, the printer's union broken and over 5,000 workers fired in one day...
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Did you know the News of the World is a part of Fox News?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corporation - 11 months ago
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I wonder who else has had their phones hacked...
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