NOTW phone tapping claims dismissed
Updated on 09 November 2009
Allegations of phone tapping at Britain's best-selling Sunday newspaper have been dismissed by the industry's watchdog.
The Guardian sparked a political storm after claiming News Group Newspapers, which publishes titles including the News of the World, paid out more than £1 million to settle cases threatening to reveal evidence of telephone hacking.
But, after reviewing evidence, the Press Complaints Commission said there were no signs of tapping by journalists at the Sunday paper. Its report concluded: "Despite the manner in which the Guardian's allegations were treated in some quarters - as if they related to current or recent activity - there is no evidence that the practice of phone message tapping is ongoing.
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