A total of 282 people had their voicemails accessed 6813 times, according to data presented to the hacking trial.

Detective Constable Richard Fitzgerald examined billing data from private investigator Glenn Mulcaire's phone, two communal lines at the News of the World and the phone of former royal editor Clive Goodman.

Data from 191 days in 2005 and 2006 showed Mulcaire made 1450 calls to 87 voicemails plus messages accessed via an Orange platform to 45 numbers, DC Fitzgerald told the Old Bailey.

He also said call data from two News International internal phones between 2004 and 2006 showed 4714 calls to 98 voicemails, with more calls made to access messages of 37 customers via the Orange platform.

Data from Goodman's home number showed 649 calls to 14 voicemail numbers between January 2005 to August 2006, the officer said.

Later the trial heard Rebekah Brooks discussed paying £200,000 a year to PR guru Max Clifford to back out of a civil case.

The disclosure emerged in notes from a meeting of senior executives of News International in January 2010, read to the court by prosecutor Andrew Edis QC.

Brooks reported that she had got Mr Clifford to agree £200,000 per annum to "represent the Sun/do business with the Sun" and if that was put in writing, he would call off his lawyers, the Old Bailey heard.

Rebekah Brooks, former News International chief executive, denies conspiring to hack phones, conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office, and conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

Andy Coulson, 46, of Charing, Kent denies conspiring to hack phones as the tabloid's ex-managing editor Stuart Kuttner, 73, from Woodford Green, Essex.

He also denies two ­allegations that he conspired with Goodman, 56, from Addlestone in Surrey, and other unknown people to commit misconduct in public office.

All seven defendants in the trial deny the charges.