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| Sun on Sunday to launch next week | Sun on Sunday to launch next week |
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| The Sun on Sunday is to publish for the first time next weekend, News International has announced. | The Sun on Sunday is to publish for the first time next weekend, News International has announced. |
| An email to all staff said that Rupert Murdoch, boss of parent company News Corporation, would "be staying in London to oversee the launch". | An email to all staff said that Rupert Murdoch, boss of parent company News Corporation, would "be staying in London to oversee the launch". |
| Mr Murdoch flew in to the UK last week, and told Sun staff that a Sunday edition would be launched "very soon". | Mr Murdoch flew in to the UK last week, and told Sun staff that a Sunday edition would be launched "very soon". |
| News International shut down its Sunday paper, the News of the World, last year amid the scandal over phone hacking. | News International shut down its Sunday paper, the News of the World, last year amid the scandal over phone hacking. |
| The internal memo from News International chief executive Tom Mockridge said: "As you know, News Corporation has made clear its determination to sort out what has gone wrong in the past and we are fundamentally changing how we operate as a business. | The internal memo from News International chief executive Tom Mockridge said: "As you know, News Corporation has made clear its determination to sort out what has gone wrong in the past and we are fundamentally changing how we operate as a business. |
| "The commitment of News Corporation to invest in a new edition is the strongest possible message of support we could wish for." | "The commitment of News Corporation to invest in a new edition is the strongest possible message of support we could wish for." |
| He went on: "This is our moment. I am sure every one of us will seize the opportunity to pull together and deliver a great new dawn for The Sun this Sunday." | He went on: "This is our moment. I am sure every one of us will seize the opportunity to pull together and deliver a great new dawn for The Sun this Sunday." |
| Speaking to BBC News, media commentator Steve Hewlett said: "Some of the plans have been in place for some time. If you are going to do it, you might as well just do it." | |
| Former News of the World political editor David Wooding said: "The readership of the News of the World didn't want that paper to close." | |
| He said what they had wanted was justice and for those who had had their phones hacked to be compensated. | |
| "The only people who don't want this new paper are the sort of people who didn't buy it anyway." | |
| Arrests | |
| On a visit to News International's headquarters in Wapping, east London, on Thursday, Mr Murdoch pledged "unwavering support" for his journalists. | |
| Since last November, 10 current and former Sun senior reporters and executives have been arrested over alleged corrupt payments to public officials. | |
| Anger has been expressed by some Sun staff at the decision of News Corporation's management and standards committee - set up to investigate allegations of wrongdoing - to pass information to the police. | |
| Last week, Mr Murdoch lifted the suspensions of the arrested workers, but said their detentions had been "a "great source of pain", adding: "Illegal activities simply cannot and will not be tolerated." |