‘Much worse to come’

FURTHER revelations about criminal activity at the News of the World are likely to surface as the police investigation intensifies into Britain’s best-selling tabloid, which will cease publication tomorrow.

Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of its parent company, News Inter-national, was reported to have told journalists working on the newspaper that it had to close as there was another two years of trouble ahead.

Police investigating a culture of hacking into phones of crime victims, celebrities and politicians have already identified more than 4,000 potential victims.