Trinity Mirror, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, is now believed to be facing at least 16 civil claims for breach of privacy linked to allegations of phone-hacking.

Twenty individuals have now launched legal actions over alleged phone-hacking against Mirror Group Newspapers – with a further 10 set to issue claims, the High Court was told today.

David Sherborne, representing a group of claimants, told a judge at a hearing in London that the claimants included former Doctor Who actor Christopher Eccleston and the BBC's creative director Alan Yentob.