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Police Review Child Murders As Hacking Outcry Section:GDN BE PaGe:1 Edition Date:110706 Edition:01 Zone:N Sent at 5/7/2011 21:12 cYanmaGentaYellowblack PLUS The people’s Edie Falco Frank SKYLINE Gehry’s fi rst fashion icon Nurse Jackie This panel tells the reader about what isskyscraper happening How Kate buries Carmela in another sectionInIn G2 of the paper. It is to tempt readers inside the defi es the Soprano newspaper. style snobs G2 Page 10 G2 Page 14 £. (IR ¤.) Wednesday .. PRICE AND DATE Published The Guardian costs in London and £1.00p on weekdays and Manchester £1.90 on Saturdays. The guardian.co.uk price covers 50% of the cost of the newsprint. The rest comes from adverts. MASTHEAD The masthead is a specially designedFour logo that Afghan shows Police review child murders thecivilians name of the newspaper. killed in RAF as hacking outcry escalates drone attack HEADLINE Exclusive • News of the The biggest headline on Nick Hopkins World targeted the page is called the “main splash”. This is a Four Afghan civilians were mistakenly Soham parents STANDFIRST serious story so no jokes LEON NEAL/AFP/GETTY killed and two others injured in an attack A standfirst is used to are made in the headline. by a remotely controlled RAF “drone” add detail that was not targeting insurgent leaders in Helmand • Ford pulls province, the Guardian has learned. included in the headline. The airstrike marks the fi rst confi rmed operation in which one of the UK’s Reaper adverts as MPs aircraft has been responsible for the deaths of civilians, and comes amid growing con- demand inquiry cern on both sides of the Atlantic about increased use of drones in combat zones. The revelation may also complicate Amelia Hill, James Robinson, the task of British commanders in the Sam Jones, Nick Davies province as they try to secure the trust of local people ahead of “transition” – the and Dan Sabbagh symbolic moment later this month when Afghan forces take the lead for security in Police offi cers investigating phone hacking areas currently under UK control. byBYLINE the News of the World are turning their However, the British military remain attention to examine every high-profi le convinced about the use of Reapers and Sometimes the writer’s case involving the murder, abduction or USE OF COLOUR insist the civilian deaths were due to intel- attackjob title on any or where child since they 2001 in response Every page of the Guardian ligence failures on the ground rather than to the revelation that journalists from the problems with the aircraft. Military offi - are writing from is is printed in colour, though tabloidincluded. newspaper Staff writers hacked are into the voice- cials have told the Guardian it is possible mail messages of the murdered schoolgirl pictures can still appear as that almost one third of the RAF could be always credited. Milly Dowler. black and white. There is made up of remotely controlled aircraft The move is a direct response to the a double page photograph within 20 years, such is the confi dence in Guardian’s exclusive story on yesterday in the centre of every their capability. that a private investigator working for The airstrike that caused the civilian issue. No other national casualties was meant to kill a Taliban Rebekah Brooks, newspaper uses full colour. commander who was being tracked on the right, was editor ground in the Now Zad district of north of the News of Helmand. According to sources, the leader the World when was correctly identifi ed and the Reaper, Holly Wells and which was fl ying close by, was instructed Jessica Chapman to attack. The Reaper pilots were thou- were murdered sands of miles away at a US Airforce base in Nevada when they were given the all the News International tabloid, Glenn in a 2006 raid on Mulcaire’s home show t ies, saying that after the developments paper and, in particular, its former editor clear to fi re on two trucks. Mulcaire, caused her parents to wrongly he targeted Leslie Chapman, the father of of the past 24 hours he had to “break his and now News International chief execu- Both vehicles were destroyed – at believe she was still alive – and interfered Jessica Chapman. silence”. He said: “I want to apologise to tive, Rebekah Brooks – who insisted she least one of them is thought to have been with police inquiries into her disappear- It is understood the name “Greg” anybody who was hurt or upset by what I knew nothing of the Dowler hacking alle- packed with explosive. An insurgent com- ance – by hacking into the teenager’s appeared in the corner of notes taken by have done. I’ve been to court. I’ve pleaded gations. She was the editor of the News of mander and an associate were killed, but it mobile phone and deleting messages. Mulcaire – believed to be a reference to the guilty. And I’ve gone to prison and been the World at the time the hacking of Milly soon became clear that civilians were also The case of Madeleine McCann is News of the World’s former assistant edi- punished. I still face the possibility of fur- Dowler’s phone messages took place. in the vehicles. expected to be one of the fi rst to be re- tor (news) Greg Miskiw. It is thought that ther criminal prosecution. The media regulator, Ofcom, is under- “It was extremely unfortunate that the examined by detectives from Scotland parents of the other murdered girl, Holly “Working for the News of the World was stood to be ready to examine whether civilians were killed,” said a Whitehall Yard’s new inquiry into the phone hack- Wells, were alsoBODYTEXT targeted. never easy. There was relentless pressure. News Corporation directors would be “fi t source. “The attack would not have taken ing, Operation Weeting. Other cases likely Police offi cers will trawl through their There was a constant demand for results. I and proper persons” to own BSkyB – if place if we had known that there were to be re-examined include 15-year-old collection of 11,000The pages main of“body” notes of kept a by knew what we did pushed the limits ethi- any senior employees at News Corpora- civilians in the vehicles as well.” Danielle Jones, who was abducted and Mulcaire, and seizednews story.from himOften in the 2006, cally. But, at the time, I didn’t understand tion or its UK arm, News International, The incident took place on 25 March this murdered in East Tilbury, Essex, in 2001 when he and theonly News part writtenof the World’sby the that I had broken the law at all.” were charged with hacking- year and an inquiry was by her uncle, Stuart Campbell. royal editor, Clivereporter. Goodman, This weretext is jailed News of the impending police action related off ences. -≥ launched by investiga- -≥ O ffi cers from Operation Weeting have for hacking into mobilethe Guardian’s phones belongingstandard capped a dramatic day of developments Rupert Murdoch’s News tors from the Interna- already told the parents of the girls killed to aides to Princebody William text. andThe Harryfont is and in the News of the World phone-hacking Corporation is closing in on winning regu- tional Security Assistance Force (ISAF). in Soham in 2002 by Ian Huntley that other members ofeight the point royal Guardianhousehold. scandal. latory approval for its proposed £8bn-plus ISAF confirmed that “civilians were their mobiles had been hacked. Docu- Mulcaire issuedEgyptian. a public apology yester- Throughout the day pressure intensi- ments seized by the Metropolitan Police day to all those hurt or upset by his activi- fi ed on the Rupert Murdoch-owned news- Continued on page 2 ≥ TURN Continued on page 10 ≥ Often front page stories continueThe UN says half of Oil and gas spills in North Sea every week, papers revealelsewhere in paper. the world’s working women are without Rob Evans disaster of 6 July 1988 which killed 167 minister, has said operations to drill in executive, said: “Safety is, has been, and Richard Cookson workers. They reveal for the fi rst time the deep Arctic waters by companies such as forever will be, our number one priority. basic legal rights names of companies that have caused Cairn Energy off Greenland are “entirely It is our core value.” Terry Macalister more than 100 potentially lethal and legitimate” as long as they adhere to Brit- The Shell-run platform responsible for Page 18-19≥ largely unpublicised oil and gas spills in ain’s “robust” safety regulation. the most spills, Brent Charlie , fi rst began Serious spills of oil and gas from North the North Sea in 2009 and 2010. Shell has been at the forefront of plans pumping oil in 1976 from its location 115 Sea platforms are occurring at the rate of They also deal a signifi cant blow to the to drill in the Arctic waters of the Beaufort miles (180km) north-east of Scotland . one a week, undermining oil companies’ government’s credibility in supporting and Chukchi seas. The documents record seven leaks on it claims to be doing everything possible to the oil industry’s fervent desire to drill The documents, released under free- over the two-year period, with the worst improve the safety of rigs. in the Arctic. Charles Hendry, the energy dom of information legislation, record happening on 26 April last year when four Shell has emerged as one of the top leaks classed by the regulator as “major” tonnes of leaked gas from one of its col- off enders despite promising to clean up More than 100 or “signifi cant”, which, if ignited, could umns led to a shutdown of production .
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