Damages totalling of nearly £1.25m have been awarded to eight celebrities whose phones were hacked by Mirror Group journalists writing celebrity stories.
Actress Sadie Frost won £260,000 and the former footballer Paul Gascoigne £188,250.
Soap stars Shane Richie, Shobna Gulati and Lucy Benjamin also received large payouts. Mirror Group is considering whether to seek permission to appeal.
The decision followed a three-week hearing at London's High Court to determine wrongdoing and damages.
The judge, Mr Justice Mann said the victims had all suffered a "serious infringement of privacy" and the scale of hacking had been "very substantial".
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