Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks to face MPs
News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks will appear infront of MPs to answer questions on the phone-hacking scandal on Tuesday.
News Corp's Rupert Murdoch declined to attend the Commons media committee. His son James said he was unavailable that day. Both have been summonsed by MPs.
Rupert Murdoch has shut down the News of the World newspaper over the scandal and dropped his bid to control BSkyB.
Meanwhile, a 60-year-old man has been arrested over phone hacking.
The BBC understands the man is Neil Wallis, the former executive editor of the News of the World. Mr Wallis was arrested by officers from Operating Weeting on Thursday morning and has been taken for questioning at a police station in west London on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications.
Neil Wallis, a former member of the Editors' Code of Practice Committee, is the ninth person to be arrested since the Metropolitan Police launched a fresh investigation in January.
US politicians are also demanding a probe into phone hacking allegations.
On Tuesday, the Commons culture, media and sport committee invited Mrs Brooks and the Murdochs to give evidence at the House of Commons about the phone-hacking scandal.
In a statement, the MPs said that serious questions had arisen about the evidence Mrs Brooks and Andy Coulson, both of them former News of the World editors, gave at a previous hearing in 2003.
Conservative MP Louise Mensch, who is a member of the committee, said the Murdochs should take the opportunity to appear before it on Tuesday next week.
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Note: Update Record,14 July 2011 Last updated at 10:58 GMT |
