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BBC News - Rupert Murdoch to launch Sun on Sunday newspaper 'soon' Rupert Murdoch has told staff at the Sun newspaper in London he will launch the Sun on Sunday tabloid "very soon". The News Corporation boss, 81, offered his support to Sun journalists at News International's offices in Wapping. Ten current and former senior staff at the paper have been arrested since November in connection with alleged corrupt payments to public officials. Mr Murdoch lifted all staff suspensions pending police inquiries, a move Labour MP Chris Bryant called "cynical".

BBC News - Kavanagh attacks arrest of Sun journalists Police raids which led to the arrest of five Sun journalists have been attacked by the paper's associate editor. Trevor Kavanagh said the senior members of staff had been treated like "an organised gang" and the tabloid was "not a swamp that needed draining".