David Cameron has promised to set up a public inquiry into phone hacking at the News of the World.

The UK prime minister said claims that the voicemail of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler had been hacked, with some messages deleted, were "disgusting".

But he told MPs an inquiry could not take place until police investigations were concluded.....

Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, the parent company of the News of the World, said allegations that staff had hacked phones and paid police were "deplorable and unacceptable".

He added that he was "committed to addressing these issues fully".

It is claimed that 13-year-old Milly Dowler's voicemail was hacked by an investigator working for the News of the World after she disappeared near her home in Surrey in 2002 .

This follows allegations that dozens of politicians and celebrities, including actor Hugh Grant and former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Prescott, were also targeted.

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"said allegations that staff had hacked phones and paid police were "deplorable and unacceptable".

But they have already paid out to various celebs, etc. People working for the NOTW paper found guilty and jailed. But as much, the attitude of the public over celebs and politicians phones being hacked wasn't big.


............... But to hack the phone of a missing child and then delete messages listened to in order to hide the hacking, leading to the parents of the child to believe she was still alive and thus hinder a countrywide search for the girl is....

...."disgusting".