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eppur_se_muova

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Thu Jan 19, 2012, 08:24 AM Jan 2012

Phone hacking: Jude Law, Lord Prescott and Ashley Cole get payouts (BBC) {NOTW}

Jude Law and Lord Prescott are among the high-profile figures to receive payouts over phone hacking by the News of the World, the High Court has heard.

Actor Law received £130,000 ($200,000), while his former girlfriend Sadie Frost is to get £50,000 ($77,000).

Footballer Ashley Cole and Labour MP Chris Bryant also reached settlements with the now-defunct paper's publisher News International, the court heard.

Most people pursuing damages had now settled, lawyers said.

The court heard Law's phone was repeatedly hacked between 2003 and 2006. Frost said she had distrusted him because journalists always knew where she would be.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16629036

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