LONDON (Reuters) - British police said on Thursday they would not reopen investigations into the interception of celebrities' mobile phone voicemails by journalists, despite new allegations against a Rupert Murdoch newspaper.

According to a report in The Guardian newspaper, reporters at Murdoch's bestselling News of the World worked with private investigators to access "two or three thousand" private mobile phones belonging to celebrities, lawmakers and public figures.

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