The editor of Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper told a media ethics inquiry yesterday it is possible illegal phone hacking took place at the tabloid, which was edited for almost a decade by CNN celebrity interviewer Piers Morgan.
The editor of sister title the Sunday Mirror told the same tribunal that she couldn't be sure illicit eavesdropping hadn't gone on there, too, but the papers' publisher said the company had no plans to launch an internal investigation into possible wrongdoing.
Mirror editor Richard Wallace had told the inquiry earlier that hacking "might well" have been going on at the Mirror in the early 2000s. But he said he had no knowledge of it and that "ethical issues are embedded" within the culture of the paper's newsroom.
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