PHONE HACKING SCANDAL: McCartney's ex-wife accuses Mirror of phone hacking!

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August 4, 2011 / PTI, London / DC.

The ex-wife of Paul McCartney claimed on Wednesday that a journalist at Britain's Mirror Group newspapers admitted hacking into her phone, dragging another tabloid into the long-running scandal.

Heather Mills told the BBC's Newsnight programme that the journalist made the admission in 2001 when he confronted her about an argument she had had with McCartney, who was then still her boyfriend.

Mills said the journalist rang her and "started quoting verbatim the messages from my machine".

"You've obviously hacked my phone and if you do anything with this story -- because they were obviously very private conversations about issues we were having as a couple -- and I said, then I'll go to the police," she challenged him.

She said the journalist responded saying: "OK, OK, yeah we did hear it on your voice messages, I won't run it."

Rupert Murdoch shut down his News of the World tabloid last month after it was revealed that private investigators working for the Sunday paper had hacked into the voicemail of a missing 13-year-old girl who was later found dead.

Former journalists at the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror have already claimed that phone hacking was widespread at their papers too, although Trinity Mirror has insisted its staff act within the law.

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SHAME OF MEDIA: More Papers in Phone Hacking Scandal!

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July 23, 2011 / PTI, London / DC.

Offices of News International are seen through fencing – AP.

Britain's phone-hacking scandal appeared to be spreading to newspaper titles beyond those owned by Rupert Murdoch, with fresh claims dragging the Mirror group into the mire of allegations of eavesdropping on celebrities.

In a dramatic turn to the scandal, former journalists at the ‘Mirror’ group said they witnessed phone hacking at their newspapers and that the practice was ‘endemic’. So far, the allegations had clouded newspapers of the News International group, the largely affected being the now closed ‘News of the World’.

In fresh developments, James Hipwell, a former journalist of the ‘Daily Mirror’ told ‘The Independent’ that he would be willing to testify in front of a public inquiry into the episode headed by Justice Brian Leveson.

The BBC also quoted a former employee of the ‘Sunday Mirror’ as claiming that he witnessed routine phone hacking in the newsroom, with celebrities including actress Liz Hurley and footballer Rio Ferdinand targeted.

The two newspapers were among the main competitors of News International's tabloids. However, ‘Trinity Mirror’ defended itself against the allegations and said its journalists work within the criminal law and Press Complaints Commission code of conduct. Hipwell, 45, also alleged that hacking took place on other newspapers within the ‘Trinity Mirror’ group, including ‘The People’, where Sean Hoare, the whistleblower who died recently, was working before moving to the ‘News of the World’.

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