Murdoch has already (apologized) personally to the family of (murdered) schoolgirl Milly Dowler, (whose) phone was (hacked) by the News of the World, a move which -- at the time -- gave the family hope that the missing girl was still (alive), because messages on her phone were being (deleted).

The phone hacking (scandal), which was first (exposed) in 2006 and has been (fermenting) over the last two weeks, has led to the closure of the 168-year-old (publication), the arrests of a number of its former (journalists) and editors, News Corp.'s (withdrawal) of its BSkyB takeover bid, and the (resignations) of senior London police officers.