the information was imparted to the police about hablgin hackine phone. >> i wrote the surrey police. my first protocol was to send milly dowler's family an apology on behalf of news international and assured them we would get to the bottom of it. representatives met with milly dowler's family lawyer almost immediately to get some more information to see if there was anything we could do, look for or assist in this case. and the third thing i did was write to surrey police to say that obviously in the last nine years, if they had come across any information that supported these allegations could they please either give it to the metropolitan police or share it with the management, the standards committee at international. i had a response from surrey police, and at the end of last week, which is that because it was part of a criminal investigation they couldn't help me. >> one of the things i want to get to is it would seem i think to us incredible that potentially, aled lee someone employed at "news of the world" would take the decision themselves to pass information on to the police

but when were you aware that information was passed to the surrey police that resulted from hacking of milly dowler's phone. now you're saying you weren't aware of that until it was reported recently in the newspapers. >> yes. >> if it is the case that employees of the "news of the world" were firstly sanctioned for hacking milly dowler's phone, deleting e-mails from it, knew that and withheld that information from you, then decided of their own volition to pass that information on to the police, and that is what you are asking us to believe, am i right in saying that? >> can you explain that passing on it to the police? >> yes. if information that was received -- information that employees at news of the world relating to information -- relating to the hacking of the phone, was passed to the police to support their investigation, you say the first you knew about that was when it was reported in the newspapers. what i'm saying is, it must be the case therefore that someone without your knowledge who was an employee of yours at the "news of the world" who decided without consulting the

>>reporter: that's something surrey found last year when it hosted what ought to have been a lucrative test match... >>we hosted the pakistan tour which had alleged match fixing and betting scandals and that kind of negative publicity does have an effect when you're trying to sell tickets to a sporting event... >>reporter: this year yorkshire will host just one day of international cricket... a 50 over match that'll be absolutely crucial to the county's annual income... >>how much of your income would be dependent on that day roughly? >>over half. >>on one day's cricket? >>yeah... in terms of what we take through gate receipts, sponsorship and everything else >>reporter: each year england play 7 home test matches... but now there are nine test venues, and mini bidding wars, combined with counties spending up large on ground improvements to better their chances of hosting tests... have come at a cost... >>i think everyone's got caught in a perfect storm. where money's been available to borrow and everyone's been chasing international cricket >>reporter: and the counties are never going

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