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The High Court judge, Mr Justice Mann, ruled that for seven years, from 1999, there had been "widespread, institutionalised and long-standing" phone hacking at the newspapers and editors knew - in particular, the editor of the Sunday Mirror, Tina Weaver. The publisher apologised.