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Prescott: PCC handling was 'useless'

The Guardian newspaper claims News of the World journalists were involved in widespread phone hacking of several thousand celebrities, sports stars and politicians.

As part of a wider discussion Gavin Esler asks former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, whose phone was thought to have been bugged - though today Scotland Yard seemed to deny that - what he thinks about the way the case has been handled by the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) and the police.

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