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PM warned over media regulation

Prime Minister David Cameron has been urged by the editor of his local paper not to impose statutory regulation on the press in response to the upcoming Leveson Report on media standards.

Following a lengthy inquiry into media ethics sparked by allegations of phone-hacking at the News of the World, Lord Justice Leveson is expected to deliver his report within weeks.

In a message to Mr Cameron, Simon O'Neill – group editor of the Oxford Mail and The Oxford Times which cover the Prime Minister's Witney constituency – said: "A free press is essential to a truly democratic society. Weaken the former and you weaken the latter."

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