A royal correspondent working for the Press Association was arrested by Scotland Yard yesterday on suspicion of illegally accessing voicemail messages.

Laura Elston, 34, was questioned before being released on bail until October.

It is unknown whether or not she previously worked for the News of the World, which has been the focus of the Operation Weeting.

PA editor Jonathan Grun said: “Laura Elston is a journalist of integrity who has worked for us for over 10 years with great distinction.

“We are offering her our full support and we hope that this matter can be cleared up as quickly as possible.”

Meanwhile, the High Court has ordered the Metropolitan Police to release some of the archive of data obtained from private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, to a group of litigants sueing News of the World owner, News Group.

According to MediaGuardian: “The documents covered by the judge’s order are mainly limited to billing data showing phone calls between Mulcaire and the News of the World, details of contracts, invoices or payments made to the private investigator, and further pages from the notebooks kept by him that relate directly to the claimants.

“That information was seized during the Met’s original investigation into phone hacking, which resulted in Mulcaire being jailed in January 2007 along with Clive Goodman, the News of the World‘s former royal editor.”

(Source: MediaGuardian)

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