Originally established as a broadsheet by John Browne Bell, who identified crime, sensation and vice as the themes that would sell most copies. The Bells sold to Henry Lascelles Carr in 1891; ๐๐ป ๐ญ๐ต๐ฒ๐ต ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ฏ๐ผ๐๐ด๐ต๐ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ต'๐ ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฟ๐บ ๐ก๐ฒ๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐บ๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ. Reorganised into News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation, the newspaper was transformed into a tabloid in 1984 and became the Sunday sister paper of The Sun. From 2006, allegations of phone hacking began to engulf the newspaper. These culminated in the revelation on 4 July 2011 that, nearly a decade earlier, a private investigator hired by the newspaper had intercepted the voicemail of missing British teenager Milly Dowler, who was later found murdered. Amid a public backlash and the withdrawal of advertising, News International announced the closure of the newspaper on 7 July 2011. The scandal deepened when the paper was alleged to have hacked into the phones of families of British service personnel killed in action.