Heather Mills has received an apology at the high court after settling her phone-hacking case against the News of the World in return for a substantial payout as part of an agreement under which she dropped similar claims against the Sun. The former wife of the Beatles singer Sir Paul McCartney said a ‘criminal, targeted smear campaign’ over the course of a decade by the news outlet had destroyed her reputation. Outside court Mills claimed she had been awarded 'the highest media libel settlement in British legal history'