* YOU BEEN SNAP * Rebekah Brooks is arrested: Police quiz Queen of Wapping over 'phone hacking and corruption' at News International"

• Brooks, 43, being held in custody after attending appointment
• Claimed she had no clue she would be arrested until today
• Now unlikely that she will attend select committee on Tuesday
• Detention throws spotlight on James Murdoch and Les Hinton;

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Rebekah Brooks was today sensationally arrested on suspicion of phone hacking and corruption.
The 43-year-old, who quit as chief executive of News International on Friday, was detained at a London police station at 12pm after arriving for a pre-arranged appointment.
Ms Brooks's spokesman confirmed her arrest, claiming it was 'quite a surprise', before adding that she was co-operating with police inquries into the scandal which closed the News of the World.
Tonight the spokesman said: 'She had been told as early as a week ago that she wasn't on the radar, then suddenly on Friday there was a request to meet.
'She attended today and it was quite a surprise to her on her arrival to be arrested.
'She was going, anticipating to help with their inquiry. She wasn't anticipating that she was going to be arrested.'

Arrested: Rebekah Brooks has reportedly been arrested over the phone hacking scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch's media empire'

The development throws serious doubt on her appearance before a parliamentary select committee set to examine the affair on Tuesday.
And it ratchets up the pressure on Rupert Murdoch's empire, including long-serving lieutenant Les Hinton, who quit just hours after Ms Brooks.
Her spokesman added: 'It has many implications for Tuesday.
'Over the next 24 to 36 hours her lawyers will have discussions with the select committee to see if it will still be appropriate (to attend). She certainly wants to.'
Commentators are already speculating that James Murdoch, the 82-year-old media tycoon's son and heir, could also be arrested.
Today it was claimed that News Corp's deputy operating officer had been involved in the 'possible cover up' over emails which exposed alleged phone hacking.
Ms Brooks, the ex-editor of the News Of The World, is the tenth person to be arrested in connection with the phone hacking inquiry.

Ms Brooks is in custody as part of the ongoing investigations by officers from Operation Weeting looking at phone hacking and Operation Elveden, investigating inappropriate payments to police.
The arrest came on a day of fast moving developments as it emerged:

• Britain's top police officer accepted a free five-week stay at a top health spa where News of the World hacking suspect Neil Wallis was a PR consultant.
• Jude Law claimed he had been hacked in the U.S. - opening up legal action against Murdoch on the other side of the Atlantic
• Ed Miliband called for the British arm of Murdoch's media empire to be broken up

This afternoon Met chief Sir Paul Stephenson was facing a battle to cling onto his job as it was discovered he accepted the £12,000 freebie from Champneys where ex-executive editor Neil Wallis worked. 
The Murdochs and Ms Brooks are scheduled to appear before the Commons culture, media and sport committee on Tuesday.

Dynasty under threat: News International Chairman and Chief Executive James Murdoch  (top) arrives for work in east London last week and Rupert Murdoch with his daughter Elisabeth ;

By my side: Rebekah Brooks and Rupert Murdoch attend a function together.

Following her arrest, It was now unclear to what extent she would be able to answer questions if she did appear.
John Whittingdale, who will chair the committee, says he 'doesn't know' if Mrs Brooks will still appear before MPs with her spokesman David Wilson adding that the arrest puts her in a 'difficult position' in terms of her appearance at the Commons.  
Mr Wilson said: 'I think there will clearly be some discussions between her lawyers and the select committee on whether it is is still sensible for her to appear.'

Labour MP Chris Bryant, who led a recent House of Commons debate on phone hacking, questioned whether her arrest was a 'ruse' ahead of the committee hearing.
He told Sky News: 'I don't want to overstress that argument but it's unusual to be arrested on Sunday by appointment - why couldn't that have happened tomorrow or Wednesday or whenever?'
Mr Bryant, a former member of the committee, added: 'Personally I always thought that Rebekah Brooks should have been arrested in 2003 when she said she had paid police officers for information.'
Media lawyer Mark Stephens told Sky News that Rebekah Brooks’ evidence before the Select Committee on Tuesday is likely to be unaffected by her arrest today.

TABLOID TURMOIL: HOW THE HACKING SCANDAL UNFOLDED

July 4, 2011: Claims that the mobile phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler was hacked by a private investigator working for the News of the World after she went missing in 2002 giving her family hope that she was still alive
July 5: Rebekah Brooks, chief executive News International, says she is 'appalled and shocked' that Milly's phone was hacked. The parents of murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman contacted by detectives investigating hacking
July 6: Families of people who died in the 7/7 bombings have been warned they may have been targeted for phone hacking along with relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson says News International gave Scotland Yard documents indicating 'inappropriate' payments were made to officers

July 7: News International chairman James Murdoch announces the News of the World will close after one final edition. Scotland Yard identifies more than 4,000 potential victims of hacking.

July 8: Former Downing Street communications chief and ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson is arrested on suspicion of phone hacking and corruption.

July 10: The final edition of the News of the World signs off with the front-page headline: "Thank you and goodbye", as the paper admits to readers: "Quite simply we lost our way". Rupert Murdoch arrives in the UK to take personal charge of the crisis.

July 11: Scotland Yard accuses News International of 'undermining' its investigation into claims journalists bribed corrupt officers by leaking details to the media Former prime minister Gordon Brown claims that other News International papers illegally obtained private information from his legal file and his baby son's medical records - something the company strongly denies.

July 13: News Corporation withdraws its BSkyB takeover bid, saying it was too difficult to proceed in the climate of furore over the phone hacking scandal

July 14: Rupert Murdoch and his son James bow to pressure and agree to join Mrs Brooks in giving evidence to the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee

July 15: Rebekah Brooks resigns as chief executive of News International. Rupert Murdoch meets with Milly Dowler's family and apologises for the hacking of the murdered schoolgirl's phone by the News of the World.
News Corporation veteran Les Hinton resigns from his roles as chief executive officer of Dow Jones and Co, and publisher of The Wall Street Journal. He was head of News International from 1995 to 2007.
July 16: Rupert Murdoch uses adverts in national newspapers to apologise for the News of the World's 'serious wrongdoing'

July 17: News International has placed adverts in national Sunday newspapers declaring there should be 'no place to hide' from the police investigation into phone hacking and pledging the organisation is 'committed to change'

Mr Stephens said: ‘Although she is likely to be in the police station for the thick end of today, there is no doubt she will be released in time to go to the Select Committee.
‘This investigation is strangling and squeezing the information out and it’s information that should frankly have been out some years ago. The police have sat on this and not done anything for years.
‘They have serious questions to ask about that.’
James Chapman, political editor at the Daily Mail, commented on Twitter: 'Dowler family lawyer Mark Lewis goes for Met on timing of Brooks arrest ahead of committee hearing: "I'm sorry, it looks deliberate."'
UK Editor Keir Simmons at ITV News tweeted: 'Source tells me Rebekah Brooks was not told in advance that she would be arrested.
He later tweeted: 'Interesting perspective from senior police officer: RT @DCC_StuartHyde: to be fair, arrest gives [Brooks] additional rights and protection.'
BBC business editor Robert Peston wrote on Twitter: 'News Int sources say they had no inkling Rebekah Brooks would be arrested when discussing her resignation last week.'
In the wake of the scandal which has engulfed his empire, Mr Murdoch closed News of the World and News International withdrew its bid for BSkyB.
Mrs Brooks eventually resigned on Friday as Mr Murdoch tried to restore public faith in his business.
Along with her went loyal Dow Jones chief executive Les Hinton, who had worked for Rupert Murdoch for 52 years. Scrutiny is now resting heavily on James Murdoch.
News International has confirmed to the Sunday Telegraph that senior executives had read a series of emails allegedly exposing phone hacking at the News of the World.
In the intervening years before the emails were handed to police, James Murdoch is said to have paid Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association £700,000 to settle out of court.


Critics claim the confidential agreement effectively had bought his silence.


Mr Murdoch has said he would never have made the payment if he had known then the full facts of 'industrial scale' hacking which is thought to have targeted thousands of people.


David Beckham is said to believe he was the target for phone hackers over the past decade.


He has instructed his solicitors to find out if he is on the list of 4,000 possible victims which includes murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, victims of 7/7 bombing and members of the Royal Family. 

Chris Evans is among the latest celebrities to reveal he had been hacked - but is one of the few who said he would not be suing.


The radio presenter said: 'After some of the stupid things I did back then, I’m lucky to still be here.

'To demand to be paid for anything they found out about me back then, true or false, either legally or illegally would be tantamount to dealing with the devil.'

Labour leader Ed Miliband called for all political parties to agree on new laws governing media ownership, significantly cutting the billionaire's market share.

He accused Mr Murdoch of having 'too much power over British public life.'
Comments made by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg exposed divisions in the Coalition Cabinet as he called for greater 'plurality' only for Defence Secretary Liam Fox to caution politicians against over-reacting over the News International scandal.

In with the family: Rebekah Brooks at The Royal Albert Hall with Elisabeth Murdoch in 2005;

Hacked: Chris Evans and David Beckham  are two of the latest celebrities to be targets'

Former minister Hazel Blears told Sky News: ‘I think this is just another unfolding event which is an on-going saga and who knows where it is going and where we go from here.’
She added that the Commons Select Committee will be ‘frustrated’ if Rebekah Brooks cannot give full answers to questions when she appears before them on Tuesday as a result of her arrest.
‘I think it is going to be quite difficult for Rebekah Brooks to make any meaningful statement to the Select Committee and it is angry at the moment about how it is being treated.
‘I think that sense of frustration on the committee is going to be absolutely intense.’

Sorry seems to be the hardest word: Newspapers yesterday carried full-page advertisements in which Rupert Murdoch apologised for 'serious wrongdoing' over the phone-hacking scandal'