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Heather Mills 'told she was phone-hacking target'

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Heather Mills has alleged a senior Mirror Group journalist admitted hacking voicemails left for her by her then-boyfriend Sir Paul McCartney.

Ms Mills has told BBC Newsnight that after Sir Paul left the voicemail in 2001, the journalist rang her quoting parts of the recording.

When challenged about how they knew what was said, Ms Mills said they admitted the message had been hacked.

Parent group Trinity Mirror says all its journalists work within the law.

Mirror Group Newspapers is part of Trinity Mirror plc which publishes over 260 titles including the Daily and Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and People.

Trinity Mirror have responded to the allegation by saying:

"Our position is clear. All our journalists work within the criminal law and the PCC [Press Complaints Commission] code of conduct."

Ms Mills told Newsnight that in early 2001 she had a row with Sir Paul who later left a conciliatory message on her voicemail while she was away in India.

According to Ms Mills, afterwards a senior Mirror Group Newspapers journalist rang her and "started quoting verbatim the messages from my machine".

Ms Mills said she challenged the journalist saying:

"You've obviously hacked my phone and if you do anything with this story... I'll go to the police."

She said they responded:

"OK, OK, YEAH WE DID HEAR IT ON YOUR VOICE MESSAGES, I WON'T RUN IT."

The journalist whom Ms Mills said contacted her is not Piers Morgan, WHO WAS EDITOR OF THE DAILY MIRROR AT THE TIME.

However, the message in question appears to be the same as one which Mr Morgan later admitted to listening to.

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In a 2006 article in the Daily Mail, Mr Morgan referred to hearing a recorded message which Sir Paul had left for Ms Mills.

Moron wrote:

"At one stage I was played a tape of a message Paul had left for Heather on her mobile phone. It was heartbreaking. The couple had clearly had a tiff, Heather had fled to India, and Paul was pleading with her to come back. He sounded lonely, miserable and desperate, and even sang 'We Can Work It Out' into the answer phone."

If Ms Mills' recollection is correct, the call Mr Morgan listened to had been hacked, and a fellow Mirror Group Newspapers journalist had tried to use it to get a story.

Ms Mills says: "There was absolutely no honest way that Piers Morgan could have obtained that tape that he has so proudly bragged about unless they had gone into my voice messages."

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Piers Morgan, the Mirror's editor between 1995 and 2004, has consistently denied sanctioning any phone hacking.

Newsnight has also learned that many other prominent people, including footballer Rio Ferdinand and TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson, also believe they were hacked by the Mirror group.

Manchester Uniteds Rio Ferdinand believes an article in 2003 in the Sunday Mirror about his missed drugs test, which appears to be based on text and voicemail details, involved the hacking of his messages.

And Ms Jonsson has also been told that she was hacked by the Daily Mirror as well as the News of the World in connection with her affair with then England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson in 2002.

So far, most of the revelations surrounding phone hacking have centred on the News of the World, published by News Group Newspapers, part of News International, which is a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

Earlier this year, the NoW admitted intercepting voicemails, amid intense pressure from those who believed they had been victims.

Among them were celebrities, politicians and victims of crime.

In the following months, the NoW was shut down, a number of its former journalists and editors were arrested and News International executives were asked by MPs to explain themselves.

The prime minister also launched a judge-led inquiry into phone hacking and the ethics of the press.

Last week, amid the latest developments, Trinity Mirror announced it was to review its editorial "controls and procedures".

The company said this was being conducted in light of the current environment rather than because of a specific allegation.

Wednesday 3rd August 2011

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[NOTWPhoneHacking]

Keep digging Piers Morgan you smug bastard.

[flyingtoilet1]

is it just me or is it a patrotic duty to hate Piers Morgan?

[DickOPlenty]

they acted as if it was their right to hack phones. such arrogance! these people should be in prison. the U.S. media needs to be investigated too. there's very little about this in the U.S. probably b/c they are guilty of the same thing.

[DickOPlenty]

she's telling the truth. she was crucified in the press but she was right. the media makes one want to vomit

[NOTWPhoneHacking]

@NYJALB Thirded.

[NYJALB]

@Hembane As a fellow Brit, I wish to second that apology wholeheartedly

[NYJALB]

@flyingtoilet1 It's not just you, and yes it is!

[NYJALB]

Think it through people, it's all on her word alone...and she's not got the greatest track record when it comes to telling the truth has she! This woman is the definitive media whore....being a "victim" of phone hacking is the z-list celebrity's flavour of the month at the moment and Mills would be devasgtated if she hadn't been hcaked, as it may suggest that no one actually gives a shiny shit what she does!

[jilabi2010]

Oh ffs, Heather sweetheart you've had your day in court you've made a few bucks, now crawl back under the stone you came from.

[hollygolightly66]

For once I'm on Heather Mills side in an argument. Morgan is one of the few people than she has more credibility than.

[Hembane]

Piers Morgan: A smug, smirking perineum (to paraphrase Charlie Brooker...) To Americans who are "getting to know him" on CNN or elsewhere, as a Brit I can only apologise.