Sales from final edition of News of the World to go to charity

RUPERT MURDOCH’S News International is to donate £2.8 million (€2.05m) from the last edition of the News of the World, it said, as it set out how it had handled the closure of the tabloid at the centre of a phone-hacking scandal.

Tom Mockridge, the chief executive of the News Corp British newspaper arm, said the money had been raised from the sale of 3.8 million copies from the final edition in July of the paper which was found to have hacked the phones of everyone from celebrities to crime victims in search of exclusive stories.

Following the closure, nearly 200 people have left the company and 65 members of staff have been redeployed elsewhere.