Mirror Group Newspapers has been granted permission to take its fight against £1.2m of phone-hacking damages payments to the Court of Appeal.

In May, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People was ordered to pay these damages to eight victims of hacking across its national newspapers.

The ruling, made by Mr Justice Mann after a two-week hearing, saw actress Sadie Frost win £260,250 and ex-England footballer Paul Gascoigne £188,250.