1401: She is asked about a countdown clock on the Sun's website to her 16th birthday and therefore the age of consent. "That was a little bizarre," she says, adding that she was "totally appalled".
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1412: She is discussing the reporting in the News of the World of a threat to kidnap her. She says such instances were kept from her "to protect me and my sanity".
1412: She says the newspaper was asked not to publish details of where she lived, but did so.
1413: Ms Church is referring to an article in News of the World that alleged her father was having an affair.
1415: The headline was "Church's three in a bed cocaine shock", with a photo of Ms Church beside it. However, the article was about her father. Ms Church reads the first line of the article to the inquiry. "It was basically just totally sensationalised."
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1416: "It just had a massive, massive impact on my family's life." She says the newspaper had details of her mother's health that she believes could only have come from phone hacking or from bribing hospital staff.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15917546Imagine what Murdoch would have done if he'd had to pay the £100,000. Oh, maybe we don't - here's the next witness, TV presenter Anne Diamond:
1502: Ms Diamond says she had put the point to Rupert Murdoch early in her career that some of his newspapers appeared intent on ruining people's lives and asked "how did he sleep at night". A recently released documentary quoted Mr Murdoch's butler as saying that the media mogul subsequently told his newspaper editor that she was a person to be "targeted", she says.
1505: Ms Diamond is discussing a Sun article headlined "Anne Diamond killed my father", based on a fatal car accident some seven years earlier.
1506: "When I saw that front page I was absolutely shocked," she says. "It made it look like I was a calculating, cold-blooded murderer." She says her complaint to the Press Complaints Commission was upheld.
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1529: Anne Diamond is talking about the death of her son.
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1534: She wrote to the editors of the main papers, begging them to stay away from the funeral. Held well away from London, with only closest family and friends, there was still a photographer standing on the road with a very, very long lens. Speaking of the resulting front page photo of the grieving couple: "It speaks more strongly than anything I could ever say to this inquiry".
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1538: Ms Diamond says the then-editor of the Sun newspaper rang her husband a few hours after funeral to say they had a strong image they wanted to use. When her husband told him not to use it, the editor said they would publish it anyway.
1539: The other newspapers accused her of doing a deal with the Sun over the funeral image, she says.
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