Piece of British newspaper history comes to end

PRASUN SONWALKAR\PTI

London, July 10: Passionate readers trooped into corner shops at the crack of dawn today to pick up the last and special edition of the 168-year-old 'News of the World' tabloid, which was abruptly closed down this week amidst allegations of phone-hacking.
 Priced at one pound, the collector's edition described itself on the cover as 'The world's greatest newspaper, 1843-2011,' and signed off with the simple words: 'Thank you & goodbye' against a collage of its well known past front pages.
 There were tears and hugs as journalists left their office last night after producing the final edition of what is described as an "astonishing paper (that) became part of the fabric of Britain, as central to Sunday as a roast dinner."

Lastupdate on : Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:30:00 Makkah time
Lastupdate on : Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:30:00 GMT
Lastupdate on : Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 IST



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