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THE News o the Worldnewspaper will print its lastever edition on Sunday, it wasrevealed last night.

News Internationalchairman James Murdochmade the announcementollowing a turbulent week in which it emerged the tabloidpaid private investigators

to hack into the phone o murdered schoolgirl MillyDowler.

Mr Murdoch said thisSunday’s edition o the Newso the World would have nocommercial advertisementsand all the revenue rom sales would go to good causes.

Police say there could beas many as 4,000 victims o phone hacking by the paper.

See page 6

News of theWorld axed

 Victim’s husband

slams PSNI teamTHE husband o a census worker

 who died in a hail o IRA bulletsin Londonderry in 1981 sayspolice have reused to make a

public appeal or inormation oracilitate his oer o a reward.

The PSNI Historical EnquiriesTeam (HET) also stands accused

o reusing to interview thesel-conessed IRA commanderor the area about the murder

– deputy frst minister MartinMcGuinness.

Mother-o-one Joanne Mathers  was gunned down, aged 29, as

she collected census orms in the Waterside in April 1981.

In March her husband Lowry

Mathers made a heartelt plea orthe case to be re-opened.

But now he is accusing theHET o reusing to make a public

appeal or inormation on his wie’s murder.

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BY PHILIP BRADFIELD

p.bradeld@newsletter.co.uk

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FORMER News Lettercolumnist John Connery hasdied ollowing a long battle with cancer.

The 53-year-old romScarva, Co Armagh, hadshared his moving story withreaders in the Living with theBig C column.

John frst approached theNews Letter with the idea o   writing a column about hisexperiences fghting bowelcancer in February 2010. Hissubsequent words touchedmany readers. See page 3

Writer loses

cancer battle

THE attorney general has saidthat he is concerned at whathe described as the “misuse”o the term human rights.

In an interview with theNews Letter, John Larkin,QC, also warned lawyers thatthey are risking being viewedas “detestable enemies o thepeople” i they are viewed asreusing legal aid work out o greed. See pages 10 & 11

Top lawyer’sconcerns

Niall McIlroy from Tempoand Michaela Treanor

from Carrickmore, whohave both graduated fromQueen’s University

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