Singer James Blunt has settled his legal action against News International over News of the World phone-hacking, accepting "substantial" damages.
His law firm, Carter-Ruck, said in a statement on Monday that Blunt "has successfully settled his claim against News Group Newspapers over the hacking of his voicemail by the News of the World". News Group Newspapers is the News International subsidiary that used to publish the now-closed News of the World.
Blunt was contacted by officers from Operation Weeting last year "to inform him that he was a victim of phone hacking", Carter-Ruck added.
The law firm said Blunt "has always been security conscious, in the knowledge that he was in telephone contact with serving members of the armed services who were on operations in Afghanistan and Iraq".
"He had even changed his voicemail pin in 2006 and so was shocked and concerned to learn that he had been targeted by the News of the World and that his privacy had been violated."
The singer issued proceedings against NGN in September 2011.
Last week the high court heard that 22 of the 178 victims of phone hacking in the second tranche of legal claims against News International had settled their claims.
Among those continuing to sue are Cherie Blair, Wayne Rooney and Father Richard Reardon, Charlotte Church's parish priest.
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