Golfer's ex-wife testifies against Brooks in hacking trial

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The ex-wife of golfer Colin Montgomerie testified at Britain's phone-hacking trial on Monday that former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks told her how easy it was to access celebrities' phones. Eimear Cook said she had lunch with Brooks in 2005, when she was separating from the former European Ryder Cup team captain, and they discussed numerous people in the media "in a gossipy, fun way". Brooks denies conspiring to illegally access the voicemail messages of public figures while she was editor of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid between 2000 and 2003. Cook said Brooks told her an anecdote about former Beatle Paul McCartney and his ex-wife Heather Mills, where "I had the impression she was talking about Sir Paul McCartney's phone not having its PIN code changed."

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