News International launches Sun - and News of the World - archive website

That clue is the existence of an archive website, which offers paying users the chance to access articles from both The Sun and the now-defunct News of the World.

So, even though News Int has closed the paper because of the hacking her voicemails, it appears happy to trade on such controversial editorial content.

Then again, on second thoughts and in fairness, it is helpful for researchers to have access the dead paper's full, unexpurgated content and it would be wrong for the publisher to withdraw items it might regard as embarrassing.

It is a valuable, if expensive, resource (with free searches, of course). If one is prepared to pay more, the cost of obtaining individual articles goes down a little.