British singer Charlotte Church, the phone-hacking victim of News Group Newspapers (NGN), settled for a fee £600,000 in an out-of-court legal battle. Speaking on why she decided to drop courtroom battle against the News of the World’s publishers, Welsh singer-songwriter said she apprehended that the ordeal would make her recall all the excruciating things the publication wrote about her and her family. On an interview with The Independent she explains,…

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Just a day after the launch of the Sunday edition of The Sun, leveson inquiry produces hard evidence of massive corruption at the tabloid, suggesting that its scribes routinely indulged in unlawful practices and bribe public officials. According to the Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sue Akers, the corruption is deeply-rooted into British public life and involves virtually all arms of the government and the civic authorities. People…

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