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Evening Standard
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Tristan Kirk

Hugh Grant’s claims of unlawful newsgathering by The Sun can go to trial

Actor Hugh Grant’s claims of blagging, unlawful newsgathering, and phone tapping against The Sun newspaper will go ahead to a full High Court trial, a judge has ruled.

The 62-year-old star believes he was illegally targeted by the newspaper between 1995 and 2011, with journalists allegedly using private investigators to tap his landline phone and obtain private information.

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