'Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan says comments he made on BBC radio in 2009 do not suggest he printed stories obtained through illegal reporting.

The CNN host released a statement after several news organisations published a transcript of his interview on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. In it, he admits "running the results" of work by third parties who did "rake through bins... tap people's phones".

But Mr Morgan's statement repeated his recent denial of using phone hacking.'

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