A former News of the World news editor has claimed there was a culture of bullying at the paper.Ian Edmondson said every part of the paper had been dictated by the editor and told the Leveson Inquiry editor Colin Myler, who replaced Andy Coulson following his resignation in 2007, continued a “culture of bullying” in the newsroom.He said: “It’s a case of you will do what you are told and you live in that environment... It’s not a democracy at a newspaper. It's autocratic.”Edmondson said he was uncomfortable with the decision to publish the diaries of Kate McCann without permission.He told the inquiry he was asked by Myler to secretly record a conversation with Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns' spokesman, after the editor refused to approach the family to collaborate on the story.He said he was told to “not make it clear what we had, tell him in general terms, something woolly”.He added: “I liked Mitchell a lot. I felt uneasy, but I did what I was told.”He denied drafting emails sent by Neville Thurlbeck to women involved in the Max Mosley case and said they were written in language he would not have used, contradicting evidence given by the reporter last year.He added: “I have got no doubt whatsoever I would have asked [Thurlbeck] to contact the women. In fact with his experience I would have had no need to [but] it's more likely that I would have asked him.”Darryn Lyons, the founder of the Big Pictures agency, gave evidence to the inquiry via video link. He said his photographers tried to abide by the PCC code but the paparazzi often “don’t know where they stand” when taking pictures of celebrities.He added: “I think that celebrities use these situations for their own self gain on a regular basis and I think that there’s two sides to every story, which I hope the inquiry looks at in great detail."On their terms it’s fine but if they’ve done the wrong thing or it’s immoral and that’s been recorded in history, they’ve been photographed and they don’t like it.“The problem is when you are photographing someone famous these days you don’t know if it’s right or wrong.”Lyons, whose agency is sent over 3,000 pictures a day, was asked about legal actions taken by the actress Sienna Miller, singer Lily Allen and the late Amy Winehouse.Miller complained after pictures were taken of her on a yacht in 2008.Lyons told the inquiry it had been normal practice to take pictures of celebrities on holiday “since Brigitte Bardot was sunning herself on the beaches of St Tropez”.