News International is a British newspaper publisher owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. The company's major titles are published by two subsidiary companies, Times Newspapers and News Group Newspapers.
From 1987 to 1995, it published Today, the first UK national newspaper to be printed in colour. All of these newspapers were founded by other owners, in some cases hundreds of years ago.
These newspapers are published at a large site in Wapping in east London, nicknamed "Fortress Wapping" after it was besieged shortly after opening in 1986 by print workers protesting at being made unemployed by the company.
NewsGroupNewspapers publishes the tabloid newspapers The Sun and the News of the World,
All of these newspapers were founded by other owners, in some cases hundreds of years ago.
In their defences to the actions the defenders plead that the allegations made in the newspaper articles are true and in these circumstances, the burden of establishing veritas being on them, the defenders consent to leading at the proof.
In the view of the terms of the newspapers articles, paragraph 2, 3, 4 and 6 of the annexation to the motion involved the disclosure of the journalistic sources upon which parts of the articles were based.
It had not been suggested by counsel for the pursuers that the identity of the sources from which the terms of the newspaper articles stemmed was essential for the preparation of his case.
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