A Scotland Yard detective has been arrested and suspended by his own force over apparent leaks to journalists during the phone hacking investigation.

A claim that James Murdoch gave misleading evidence to a Commons committee is to be referred to Scotland Yard, a Labour MP said today.

Senior police chiefs in the UK will be quizzed over the phone hacking scandal today as two MPs called for a top officer to resign amid accusations he repeatedly lied to parliament.

Rupert Murdoch was today facing a deepening crisis at News International amid claims that journalists from one of his newspapers accessed the medical records of Gordon Brown’s son.

THE former editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, is to be arrested this morning. The Guardian reported that he had been told to attend a central London police station for questioning over claims he knew about phone hacking.

The officer in charge of the original phone hacking inquiry has been called to give further evidence to MPs.

SCOTLAND YARD was battling to stop the phone hacking scandal spiralling out of control last night amid a storm of fresh revelations.

POLICE launched a fresh inquiry into the phone hacking controversy last night after receiving “significant new information”.