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.

News International executive chairman James Murdoch was today due to appear before the British Parliament as he returns for his second grilling by a Commons committee investigating the phone-hacking scandal.

THE phone hacking scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp threatened to spread to other titles yesterday, as sources said a journalist at the Sun had been arrested over allegations of police bribery.