MPs want Piers Morgan to answer hacking claims

BRITISH lawmakers have called on CNN talk show host and former tabloid editor Piers Morgan to return to Britain to answer questions about phone hacking after allegations made by the ex-wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney.

The claim by Heather Mills that a journalist had listened to voicemail messages on her mobile phone has added fuel to the flames of a scandal that has engulfed Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp empire and much of the British establishment.

In an interview with the BBC, Mills said a journalist working for British publisher Trinity Mirror, owner of the Daily Mirror tabloid newspaper, had confronted her with details of a message left by McCartney on her phone in early 2001 following a row.