Nowadays, burglaries and mailbox vandalism makethefrontpage, but residents like to repeat the story about bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who holed up in a Giddings boarding house in the 1930s.
Do the experiences of Milly Dowler's family and all those whose phones were hacked, the McCanns and all those who have been maligned and Max Mosley and all those whose privacy has been invaded prove that the press needs to be investigated by a powerful new body which can fine papers and force them to makefrontpage corrections?