Heather Mills McCartney insisted today she will always love estranged husband Sir Paul, but said "huge powers" were out to destroy her in their divorce battle.

The 38-year-old accused the former Beatle of dragging his heels over the deal to end their marriage.

She also declared herself to be the victim of a hate campaign by "Beatle nutters", likening herself to Sir Paul's late wife Linda and John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono.

Her comments came during a marathon publicity blitz as she promoted an animal welfare charity.

In the midst of countless TV interviews and press photocalls she insisted: "I'm not a publicity seeker."

But even as she was speaking, a senior police officer criticised her for making four emergency calls within 24 hours and said there was a danger of further complaints not being taken seriously.

Chief Superintendent Kevin Moore, of Brighton and Hove Police, said: "Clearly people who make lots of calls to the police run the risk of being treated as the little boy who cried wolf."

Today's campaign was a protest against pig farming practices used by M&S suppliers.

Mills McCartney used the occasion to talk publicly about the end of her marriage.

"I will never get over it. I will always love Paul. He is the father of my child but I just have to move on and deal with it and there is nothing I can do," Mills McCartney told BBC News 24.

The couple are battling through the courts over the former Beatle's multi-million pound fortune and custody of their three-year-old daughter, Beatrice.

"I have never spoken badly about my husband. I never will - he is the father of my child," she said, before adding cryptically: "There are huge powers. I don't have that powerful system that he has. There are huge powers that create these things for reasons of their own.

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