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**Maggy** · 23-10-2012, 01:16

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20036822

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Four people have issued High Court claims against the Daily and Sunday Mirror and The People, accusing the newspapers of phone hacking, their solicitor has told the BBC.
Solicitor Mark Lewis said the claims were filed against publisher Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) on Monday.
The four claimants include former England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson.

So now it's not just Murdoch's papers..The net widens.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20031173

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Two national newspapers found guilty of contempt of court over their coverage of Levi Bellfield's conviction for the murder of Milly Dowler have been fined.
The Daily Mail and Daily Mirror were each fined £10,000 by two judges at the High Court in London in a case brought by Attorney General Dominic Grieve.

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During the contempt case earlier this year, the judges were told that stories in the Mail and Mirror were part of an "avalanche" of adverse publicity that followed the guilty verdicts against Bellfield.
Jurors had still been considering a charge that Bellfield had attempted to abduct Rachel Cowles, then aged 11, the day before he snatched 13-year-old Milly in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in 2002.
Sir John Thomas and Mr Justice Tugendhat heard that as a result of the "totality" of the publicity, the Old Bailey jury was discharged from returning a verdict on that count.

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The action was brought against Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Mail, and MGN, publisher of the Mirror.

If there was any sort of statutory regulation of the press that had worked at the time he would have been found guilty.