London - "A dramatic package of improvements" to privacy guidelines in Britain to be announced by the Press Complaints Commission chairman, Lord Wakeham today will be adopted immediately by most editors, he predicted last night.
Following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, many newspaper editors would not wait for the month or so it could take for the new measures to become part of journalists' code of practice, he said.
"I would expect editors to deal with them from tomorrow, from day one," Lord Wakeham said following a meeting yesterday of the PCC, the first since the princess's death last month. Lord Wakeham said he would also suggest curbs on the behaviour of television crews, although it did not fall within the PCC's responsibilities.