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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jane Croft

The Sun loses £66m amid costs from phone-hacking scandal

Front pages of the Sun newspaper
Total losses at the Sun have now reached £515m over the past five years. Photograph: Paul Lawrenson (Kent)/Alamy

The Sun lost £66m last year and its online audience dropped by 4 million readers as the newspaper continued to grapple with the fallout from the phone-hacking scandal.

Total losses at the Murdoch-owned tabloid have now reached £515m over the past five years, amid declining print sales and the high cost of paying damages to victims of illegal information gathering.

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