Stuart Andrew, Conservative MP for Pudsey, said he was very disappointed at news of the appeal.
In the town of Parksley, where the couple lived together, the suspects' neighbours expressed shock at news of the charges.
Widespread allegations of voice-mail interception at News of the World caused News Corp. to close the tabloid in July 2011.
Local politicians said the community was shocked at news of the closure which was "a tragedy for those people losing their jobs".
Potential liability flows from journalists at News of the World to its parent, News International, and to that company's parent, News Corp.
It would have the power to summon evidence before somebody starts shredding it either at News of the World of the Metropolitan Police.
His supporters, who have braved cold and heavy rain, reportedly broke into cheers and danced in the street at news of the dialogue.
Carroll's family said they were elated at news of her release.
Brooks went on to become chief executive of News International after her time at News of the World and is seen as personally close to Murdoch.
News Corp. has publicly apologized for wrongdoing that occurred at News of the World and has said it is assisting police, who are conducting various criminal probes into illegal reporting practices.
Opposition to the bid has increased this week following revelations of alleged phone-hacking at News of the World, the Sunday paper owned by News International, which is part of News Corp.
My criticism of the Report should in no way be taken as an effort to minimise the harm that has occurred as a result of the events at News of the World.
But James Murdoch has been dealing with problems at News of the World while trying to convince the British government and public to allows News Corp. to buy the rest of BSkyB f or months now.
The U.K. government ordered the inquiry in July amid a public outcry over a scandal at News of the World involving interception of mobile-phone voice mails of crime victims, politicians and celebrities in pursuit of scoops.
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That was nine months after Clive Goodman sent a letter to several NI executives, including Les Hinton, protesting his firing on the grounds that phone hacking was widely practiced and openly discussed at News of the World.
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Mr. Hinton testified to Parliament earlier in 2007 that as far as he was aware, the phone hacking was the work of a lone rogue reporter at News of the World who had since gone to jail.
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Grant sported a hidden tape recorder during drinks with a former celebrity-beat journalist and published the most scandalous and interesting parts of their conversation in the New Statesman, including whether or not Rupert Murdoch had any idea about the phone hacking that journalists were doing at News of the World, one of the newspapers owned by News Corp.
Mr Murdoch insisted - on being asked by another Labour MP Paul Farrelly - that the debacle at the News of the World does not undermine his competence as an executive at News Corporation, parent company of News International.
"After years of denials and cover-up, News Group Newspapers has finally admitted the depth and scale of the unlawful activities of many of their journalists at the News of the World and the culture of illegal conduct at their paper, " Mark Thomson, another lawyer representing phone-hacking victims, said in a statement.
The emails released Tuesday drive at a key question in the phone-hacking saga: when senior News Corp. executives first became aware of the widespread nature of wrongdoing at the News of the World.
Evidence continues to pile up that his News International underlings sought to alert Murdoch to the nature and scale of illegal activities at the News of the World as long ago as 2008.
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Clearly most of us would be but the astonishing history of News Corp is not just the criminality at the News of the World but also its ability to err as a business, on such a scale.
My impression on talking to News Corp is that Rupert Murdoch will attempt to shy away from commenting on the detail of what happened at the News of the World: as the CEO of a global media conglomerate with 53, 000 employees and hundreds of individual businesses, he will make clear that he can't micromanage all subsidiaries.
He denies knowing about the extent of wrongdoing at the News of the World, which shut down last summer.
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But the sharpest critics of the malpractices at the News of the World, such as the Labour leader Ed Miliband, have been calling for her head.
Her ignorance of what happened at the News of the World reinforced their claims that they too had no knowledge of the alleged scale of abuses by the Sunday tabloid, which was closed down only a week ago.
To put it another way, the company's version of what happened at the News of the World and who was to blame has been implicitly challenged in a fundamental way by the decision of the Metropolitan Police to arrest her on suspicion of alleged involvement in phone hacking and corruption.
He has said at the time he did not know the full extent of hacking that may have been going on at the News of the World.
There has been a potentially important development in respect of who knew what and when about the full extent of hacking and wrongdoing at the News of the World.
As he has in the past, he denied allegations that, in settling a lawsuit in 2008, he was told of evidence that wrongdoing at the News of the World went beyond a single reporter and a private investigator.
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