Windows Phone 8 TextBlock cutting text off XAML - xaml

I have the following XAML code:
<!--LayoutRoot is the root grid where all page content is placed-->
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="#FFE8E8E8">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<StackPanel x:Name="TitlePanel" Grid.Row="0" Margin="12,17,0,0" >
<TextBlock x:Name="AppName" Text="Agent" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}" Margin="12,0" Foreground="Black" />
<TextBlock x:Name="PageName" Text="agent audit" Margin="9,-7,0,0" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextTitle1Style}" Height="100" Foreground="Black"/>
</StackPanel>
<Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Background="White"/>
<ScrollViewer HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="0,0,0,0" Grid.Row="1" VerticalAlignment="Top">
<TextBlock x:Name="auditText" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="0,0,0,0" Grid.Row="1" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="TextBlock" VerticalAlignment="Top" Foreground="Black" Padding="10"/>
</ScrollViewer>
</Grid>
When the page comes into view I assign the TextBlock with the contents of an API Call (audit log text), and this gets quite long.
However, currently it cuts off all text below the screen height. I have the TextBlock and ScrollView set to Auto layout height/width.
I can even see the top of the next line of text, when I scroll the rest doesn't appear. Quite hard to screenshot too as you only see the issue when scrolling, and whilst scrolling I can't take a screenshot :/
Any ideas where I'm going wrong?
I've read numerous posts on this site but nothing quite hit what I was after.
Thanks.

This ended up working for me:
<ScrollViewer Height="Auto" Grid.Row="1">
<TextBlock x:Name="auditText" Text="TextBlock"
VerticalAlignment="Top" Foreground="Black" Margin="0,10,0,0" Grid.Row="1" Padding="20" TextWrapping="Wrap">
</TextBlock>
</ScrollViewer>
Setting the ScrollViewer height to AUTO

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