Green’s Dictionary of Slang

nickname for the UK Sunday paper, the News of the World.

1998		I. Welsh Filth 227: Sunday morning I get the News of the Screws.
2000		‘Media diary’ Observer 24 Sept. 🌐 [He] had admitted to cross-referring two articles in the Sunday newspapers to see if the same names cropped up. And the two articles were? The Sindie’s 50 famous gays list and none other than the Screws cut-out-and-keep paedophile register.
2001		K. Waterhouse Soho 87: Vicar, there was, ended up in the News of the Screws.