An unnamed 60-year-old man has been arrested in a raidd in West London this morning. The police have not released any further information as to his identify or the roll he has
'Operation Weeting' detectives have raided a West London location in relation to the records hacking by News of the World and arrested an as-yet unidentified 60-year-old male, the ninth person to be arrested over allogations of spying by several newspapers in Rupert Murdoch's News International/News Corp media empire.
The man was taken for questioning at a local police station on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, a Scotland Yard spokesman said.
A Scotland Yard statement confirmed the arrest was carried out at 6.30am. "The man is currently in custody at a west London police station," the Met said. "It would be inappropriate to discuss any further details at this time."
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The former deputy editor of the News of the World was arrested Thursday in the widening investigation into phone hacking at the defunct tabloid whose owner, Rupert Murdoch, came under more pressure to answer lawmakers' questions about the scandal.
Prime Minister Nick Clegg said Murdoch had big questions to answer about accusations of eavesdropping and police bribery at his British papers, which have forced the media titan to drop his bid to take full control of British Sky Broadcasting.
The House of Commons committee on Culture, Media and Sport has asked Murdoch to appear next week with his son James and Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of News International, the News Corp. unit that controls the British newspapers.
"If they have any shred of sense of responsibility or accountability for their position of power, then they should come and explain themselves before a select committee," Clegg said in an interview with BBC radio.
"Former Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson, 43, was arrested on Friday by the team of detectives investigating alleged phone hacking and illegal payments to police by the News of the World, where he was editor until 2007.
On the same day police also held former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman, 53, and an unnamed 63-year-old man in connection with allegations of corruption.
All three men were released on bail until October."
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Deputy UK PM: Phone hacking scandal 'clearly goes beyond' Murdoch stable.
Clegg: Problems in British media are 'systemic'; former executive editor reportedly arrested in London.
The phone hacking scandal that engulfed and sunk Rupert Murdoch's News of the World extends beyond the tabloid and its stable-mates, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said Thursday.
..It "clearly goes beyond News International," Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, the junior member of Britain's ruling coalition, told BBC Radio 4.
News International is the British arm of Murdoch's News Corp.
British broadcaster ITN, an NBC News partner, reported Thursday that Neil Wallis, the former executive editor of News Corp.'s flagship Sunday paper the News of the World, had been arrested.
London Metropolitan Police said only that a 60-year-old man was held Thursday morning "on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications."
No further details were released.
Nick Clegg, in a speech in central London on the . He says all parties now have a rare opportunity to work together to reform the media.
His three principles for reform of the media:
1) Press freedom - "The lifeblood of liberal democracy." He says the last week has been a triumph for proper investigative reporting. Journalists will never be shrinking violets and papers will never be owned by angels, he says. He does not want to live in a society where politicians feel comfortable with the press.
2) Accountability - This has improved in other areas of the economy: financial services and the police are now far more accountable. But the media has not kept up. It has "institutionalised immunity" from the basic standards of the rest of the country, Clegg claims. Corporate governance for the media needs to be examined.
3) Plurality - A corporate monopoly threatens democracy almost as much as a state monopoly does. Traditional media still matters, he says – it's still responsible for the majority of original journalism. The plurality test – why doesn't it cover companies that expand their market share naturally through market growth? We should also look at the way competition law operates, Clegg says.
More from Clegg's speech and other developments to look forward to today..
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