A long way from the red carpet but still in the limelight for Hugh Grant -- only this time, to turn the tables on the British press.<br/> (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR HUGH GRANT, SAYING:<br/> "If someone like me called the police for a burglary, mugging, something that happened in the street -- something that happened to one of me or my girlfriend -- the chances are that a photographer or reporter would turn up on your doorstep before a policeman."<br/> This is the first act of an inquiry that will later focus its sights on Rupert Murdoch's media empire, and his now closed News of the World.<br/> Calls for an inquiry began earlier this year after it emerged journalists at the paper hacked the phone of Milly Dowler, a missing schoolgirl later found murdered.<br/> Today, her mother Sally told the inquiry hacking had given her false hope.<br/> (SOUNDBITE) (English) SALLY DOWLER, MOTHER OF MURDERED SCHOOLGIRL MILLY DOWLER SAYING:<br/> "I rang her phone and it clicked through onto her voicemail, so I heard her voice and it was just like..I jumped...'She's picked up her voicemails Bob, she's alive," And I was just....it was then really. When we were told about the hacking it was the first thing I thought."<br/> The first part of the inquiry led by Lord Justice Leveson is expected to take several months.<br/> Among the witnesses will be families of crime victims, journalists, lawyers and celebrities like Harry Potter author JK Rowling.<br/> But after that, the spotlight will shift -- to Rupert Murdoch's News International.<br/> Ruairidh Villar, Reuters.
