News International’s former legal adviser Tom Crone “categorically denies” any criminal offence, his solicitor said today, after the 60-year-old was arrested and bailed by police investigating phone hacking.

News International's former legal adviser Tom Crone has been arrested in London by police investigating alleged phone hacking.

A journalist was arrested today on suspicion of computer hacking.

British police say a 51-year-old journalist has been arrested as part of an investigation into the use of information taken from stolen mobile phones.

A 55-year-old man has been arrested in Britain as part of the Met probe into alleged computer hacking, the force said today.

Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and her racehorse trainer husband Charlie today made their first appearance in court on charges relating to the phone hacking scandal.

A journalist was arrested today as part of Scotland Yard’s inquiry into payments to public officials.

The truth about how murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s phone messages were deleted may never emerge, the Leveson Inquiry heard today.

Former News of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck was rearrested today by detectives investigating phone-hacking.

Five people have been arrested over payments to police officers in the phone-hacking inquiry, Scotland Yard said.

The former News of the World crime editor has been arrested in England on suspicion of paying police officers.

POLICE probing phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World arrested a private investigator who was previously jailed for his role in the scandal.

THE first person to be arrested in connection with claims of computer hacking by private investigators working for News International was released on bail last night.

Scotland Yard has dropped its legal bid to force The Guardian newspaper to reveal information about the source of its phone hacking stories.

A former News of the World executive arrested in relation to phone hacking was being questioned by detectives in custody today.

A 61-year-old man was arrested in the UK today on suspicion of phone hacking.

BRITISH police investigating phone hacking yesterday arrested a man reported to be a former top executive at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid which closed last month amid the scandal.

The mother of the murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne was left “absolutely devastated” after being told by police that her phone may have been hacked by a private investigator used by the News of the World, a friend said today.

Claims that James Murdoch knew three years ago that phone hacking at the News of the World was not confined to a single “rogue” reporter have been referred to the police in the UK.

BRITAIN’S senior police chief Paul Stephenson, London’s police commissioner, resigned yesterday over allegations about the police’s handling of phone hacking investigations.

Britain’s most senior police officer sensationally resigned tonight over revelations surrounding the phone hacking scandal.

A defiant Rupert Murdoch has said he will challenge the “total lies” issued about his News Corporation media empire in the phone hacking scandal when he appears before MPs next week.

THE FBI has opened an investigation into allegations that media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation sought to hack into the phones of 9/11 victims, according to a law enforcement official.

The home and mobile telephone numbers of Britain’s former top policeman were found on lists obtained by detectives investigating phone hacking at the News of the World.

A third person was arrested in the UK tonight in connection with alleged corrupt payments made to police officers.

Detectives in Britain investigating allegations of voicemail hacking have arrested a woman.