Starting out as a secretary, Rebekah Wade -- her maiden name -- swiftly made her way up the editorial food chain, becoming deputy editor by the age of 27.

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The danger is that sensible ideas about alternatives to prison may be lost in the enjoyable hullaballoo which the Sun's newly appointed editor, an inventive Sorbonne graduate called Rebekah Wade, shows every sign of raising to new heights.

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Mr Grant said claims by Mrs Brooks and another former editor, Andy Coulson, that they had been unaware of hacking while they were in charge at the News of the World "makes either him and Rebekah Wade the worst editors in the history of journalism or liars".

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The, tell me something, we heard earlier on from Rebekah Wade and so on, and we've seen in the papers today a tremendous lot about Sarah's Law and Sarah Payne and naming and shaming, what do you feel, where do you stand on this, do you think there should be a Sarah's Law?

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