Silver, 25.8 mm diameter, 9.80 grams. MY FIRST MEDAL above Britannia seated left, PRESENTED BY NEWS OF THE WORLD below.  Rv. Wreath, centre blank for engraving.  Hallmarked Birmingham 1926-7, A R & S (Alfred Roden & Son).  Dark toned, EF

The News of the World was a weekly national newspaper published every Sunday in the UK from 1843 to 2011. It was the cheapest newspaper of its time and was aimed directly at the newly literate working classes. It became the world's highest-selling English-language newspaper, and at closure still had one of the highest English-language circulations. It was originally established as a broadsheet by John Browne Bell, who identified crime, sensation and vice as the themes that would sell most copies. It concentrated on celebrity scoops, gossip and populist news. Its prurient focus on sex scandals earned it the nickname “News of the Screws”. It exposed celebrities' drug use, sexual peccadilloes, or criminal acts, by using insiders and journalists in disguise to provide video or photographic evidence, and covert phone hacking in ongoing police investigations.

Sales averaged 2,812,005 copies per week in October 2010.

News International announced the closure of the newspaper on 7 July 2011