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On 27 February 2012 Church accepted £ 600, 000 in damages and costs in settlement of a lawsuit arising out of the News International phone hacking scandal.

She had claimed that 33 stories about her that appeared in the News of the World were the product of illegal hacking into her family's voice mail.

After the settlement was announced in open court she made a lengthy statement afterwards.

She said, “ I have also discovered that despite the apology which the newspaper has just given in court, these people were prepared to go to any lengths to prevent me exposing their behaviour.

They are not truly sorry.

They are just sorry they got caught .”