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NewsnightThe programme spoke to a journalist who worked on the paper in the past decade who claimed to have witnessed routine phone hacking in the newsroom.
The source said celebrities including actress Liz Hurley and footballer Rio Ferdinand were targeted.
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The programme's source said the technique of phone hacking was used on a daily basis.
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Meanwhile, BBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds said a former Daily Mirror journalist James Hipwell has told an Australian newspaper he is willing to testify that in the late 1990s Mirror journalists were told to go through the voicemails of celebrities to look for stories.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14259180
The Sunday Mirror is the Sunday version of the Daily Mirror, both owned by the Trinity Mirror group; Piers Morgan, for those of who who have seen his name come up a bit, was editor of the Daily Mirror from 1995 to 2004 (when he was
sacked for using fake photos that purported to show British troops mistreating Iraqi prisoners). So it seems the sister paper was using phone hacking as an everyday thing; and also employed a voice artist to impersonate people to obtain health records. But he asks us to believe nothing lie that was going on in his paper. Oh no.
The mention of Hipwell is very interesting; he was at the centre of the Mirror
share fraud case. Somehow, Morgan was never charged in that:
Mr Morgan bought £20,000 of shares in Viglen Technology the day before it was tipped on the paper's City Slickers page, but he was cleared of any wrongdoing by the Mirror's board.
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But, in 2000, he was criticised over the incident by the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), which ruled he had breached the industry's code of conduct.
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Former Mirror tipsters Anil Bhoyrul and James Hipwell and a third man, Terry Shepherd, are alleged to have used the newspaper column to create a misleading impression of the value of certain investments.
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A DTI spokesman said they were alleged to have breached the law "by creating a misleading impression as to the value of investments, for the purpose of creating that impression and of thereby inducing other persons to acquire those investments, by using the City Slickers column in the Daily Mirror to tip those investments".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3792225.stm:
The court heard Mr Morgan had himself bought shares - said in court to be as much as £67,000 - in Sir Alan Sugar's technology firm Viglen, a day before they were tipped in the City Slickers column.
It was this tip, at the beginning of 2000 in a column entitled "Sugar to Head Next Gold Rush", that led to Hipwell and Bhoyrul being investigated.
Their former editor was cleared by a DTI inquiry of any wrongdoing and backed by executives at Trinity Mirror.
But Mr Morgan was criticised by the Press Complaints Commission and the court heard Viglen's PR adviser, Nick Hewer, say he had been asked by the editor to lie about the timing of a conversation with a columnist.
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