THE scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch’s News International newspapers and other parts of the national press continues unabated.

Charges laid against Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, her husband and others, will lead to the first court cases related to the scandal.

Meanwhile, the Leveson Inquiry continues on its merry way, as a succession of editors, executives and politicians display their collective amnesia.

At some point Lord Justice Leveson will make his recommendations on the future of UK press regulation. What is being forgotten in this entire affair is that revised regulation will affect every newspaper in the country, including your Argus.

Like every other local newspaper, our journalists have never hacked phones.

We have never paid the police for information. We have never had a sickeningly close relationship with politicians. We have never broken the law.

Yet we will be subject to the results of the Leveson Inquiry.

We fear Lord Justice Leveson does not really understand the difference between Fleet Street and the rest of us.

We want to see law breakers punished and held to account.

But we do not want to see an entire industry punished for the sins of a few.