article_snippet: Phone hacking at Mirror Group newspapers made the crimes of the News of the World look like a ‘cottage industry’, the High Court was told yesterday.
article_snippet: Journalists at Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and the People listened in to the private messages of celebrities on a ‘mass industrial scale’, it was claimed.
article_snippet: The details were revealed yesterday at the start of a civil claim brought by eight claimants, including Paul Gascoigne, Miss Frost and BBC chief Alan Yentob.
article_snippet: A civil claim is being brought by eight claimants, including Paul Gascoigne, Miss Frost and BBC chief Alan Yentob
article_snippet: Mr Justice Mann must assess the extent of phone hacking across the three titles and rule on the level of damages payable to each of eight claimants, including Gascoigne, Miss Frost and BBC chief Alan Yentob (pictured).
article_snippet: The newspaper group has already set up a £12million compensation fund.
article_snippet: Last month The newspaper group printed an apology for ‘unwarranted and unacceptable intrusion into people’s private lives’ in the decade up to 2009.
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highlights_snippet: Claims involve reporters at Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People .
  