Heather Mills has firmly denied allowing former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan to listen to her voicemails.

Morgan implied in his evidence to the Leveson Inquiry that Mills, or someone close to her, had played a recording of Sir Paul McCartney singing down the phone following an argument in 2001. He refused to reveal his source to the inquiry but said the recording had been legitimately obtained.

Mills said she had "never" played private messages from then-husband McCartney to anyone.

She added: "I can't quite believe that he would even try and insinuate [it]. A man that's written nothing but awful things about me for years would absolutely relish in telling the court if I had personally played a voicemail message to him."

A former Trinity Mirror employee, not a Daily Mirror journalist or someone working under Morgan, allegedly contacted Mills shortly after the argument over her charity work.

She was told journalists knew about the argument and that McCartney had phoned apologising and singing "a little ditty" to his wife. After Mills threatened legal action the story was never published.

Mills said details from Operation Weeting showed her voicemail, and that of her sister, had been hacked.

She added: "We were shown my PIN numbers, PUK numbers over three different telephones over a period of five or six years."

A short video was played in court showing Mills being pursued by paparazzi outside her Brighton home, including a car chase resulting in a crash. She told Lord Justice Leveson she and a friend had recorded 64 hours of footage. When asked her views on the PCC, she said power should be taken away from editors and “given to the public".