Hacking Was 'Rife At Three Mirror Papers'

Phone hacking was "rife" at all three Mirror Group newspapers from the end of the 1990s, the High Court has heard. One journalist had 100 celebrity targets and was making 250 hacking calls a day, it was claimed. The revelations emerged at a hearing to decide the level of compensation for eight high-profile complainants: TV executive Alan Yentob, actress Sadie Frost, ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne, soap stars Lucy Taggart, Shane Richie and Shobna Gulati, flight attendant Lauren Alcorn and