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The News of the World is Britain's biggest and brightest newspaper - reaching nine million readers every week.

We're the UK's market leader for news, sport and showbiz - regularly setting the agenda with powerful scoops like the inside story of Prince William's split from Kate Middleton and our expose of actress Lindsay Lohan.

We've got a trophy cabinet groaning with gongs.

In 2006, we were named Sunday Newspaper of the Year for the third year running by the London Press Club - for the third year in a row.

Later that year we scooped the prestigious Cudlipp Award for our What About The Victims? campaign.

In 2005, we won Newspaper of the Year, Scoop of the Year for our our revelation of David Beckham's affair with his PA Rebecca Loos, and our man Ryan Sabey was named Young Journalist of the Year.

Our high profile For Sarah campaign - launched in 2000 following the adduction and murder of schoolgirld Sarah Payne - has battled for new measures to safeguard children from paedophiles.

But our recent run of success is just the latest chapter in the News of the World story - which began back on October 1, 1843.

Our first edition back then proclaimed: "Our motto is truth. Our practice is the fearless advocacy of the truth."

Since that day, we've become world-renowned for breaking the biggest stories and fighting the hardest-hitting campaigns.

Our reputation for exposing the world's worst crooks is well-founded - with our investigations editor Mazher Mahmood, famously known as the Fake Sheik, responsible for putting over 130 villains behind bars.

We've consistently exposed the secrets of the great and the good and never shied away from causing a storm.

We've laid bare the affairs of David Beckham, England boss Sven Goran Eriksson and former Home Secretary David Blunkett.

And we've championed big issues such as ending child labour in 1903, the need for a polio vaccine in 1959, and more recently making parents aware of the dangers of predatory paedophiles.

We are also renowned for our in-depth coverage of breaking news events, such as the tragic death of The Princess of Wales in 1997, the 9 / 11 terror attacks in 2001 and the death of Pope John Paul II in 2005.

We have exposed pervert Glitter's sick harem in Vietnam, laid bare Sven's dirty deals and revealed the sex secrets of the Primrose Hill set.

The News of the World's traditional home was in London's Bouverie Street - just off the legendary Fleet Street.

In early 1986 we upped sticks to Wapping along with our sister-papers The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times in a move that transformed UK journalism forever.

The News of the World is today produced by a dedicated team of journalists and photographers at our offices in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Dublin - making sure each one of our nine million regular readers get the very best of British journalism every Sunday.





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