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Foreign Correspondent: UK - 'Allo, 'Allo, 'Allo

It was a bit of electronic skulduggery aimed at getting shock horror, scoop exclusives on Royals, TV celebrities and politicians - anyone with a high profile and a mobile. Simply hack into their phone message bank and turn the juicier stuff into screaming headlines and raucous stories for your tabloid readers. Dead easy! So simple it was almost criminal. Well, err, it was and it's fuelled a scandal that - just like a pesky pap - refuses to go away.

In a small, quiet pub in coastal Dover, tabloid-hack-turned-publican Paul McMullan holds a phone in each hand and demonstrates how stupidly simple it was to access the private phone messages of his prey. Only once he managed to get in the information wasn't sensational - it was often paralysing.

"By 'n large it was rubbish. You got really rubbish information. You got stuff like; 'I'm just going out to Tesco's to get a pint of milk, would you like anything else luv?' Well that's not great is it? It's not like, 'Oooh I'm just smuggling in some plutonium." Paul McMullan - former Features Editor - News of the World

But he says that didn't stop reporters looking for a nugget of tabloid gold; a tiny piece of private information they could turn into blazing copy and a story that would be gobbled up by millions of readers of Britain's biggest selling newspaper - News Of The World.

It was a widespread practice according to McMullan and it would soon get News Of The World into a spot of bother. A lame story about Britain's Royal family was chased back to NOTW's Royal reporter and a private investigator and the pair went to jail.

One bad apple! declared the paper's publishers. Rupert Murdoch's News International said phone hacking was a one off.

But did it end there? Not likely! It's claimed police have thousands of names of stars and starlets, pollies and others who have had their phone message banks hacked.

Foreign Correspondent has assembled a who's who in what's become an explosive saga of claim, counterclaim, costly settlement and political intrigue. Reporter Eric Campbell quizzes everyone from pop superstar Robbie Williams who reveals he no longer carries a phone because of the scandal, to celebrity manager Max Clifford who drew a million pound settlement from NOTW as well as other targets like former police commander and hack-target Brian Paddick.

As Labour pollie Tom Watson continues to press for a full judicial inquiry into the matter old Murdoch hands like former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie say it's a well, a beat up.

"Where is the proof? They've had six years to look at it. They've had parliamentary enquiries, they have had police enquiries. Everybody's trailed all over this and not one piece of evidence - outside the evidence that sent these two guys to jail - has been discovered". - Kelvin MacKenzie - former Editor The Sun

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Duration (mins)	30
Date of broadcast	2/11/2010
Channel	ABC1
Price:	AUD27.45 including GST

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