Six current and ex-journalists who all worked for the News Of The World have been arrested in a new police investigation into phone hacking claims.
An internal message sent to News International employees confirmed two of those detained were journalists currently working for The Sun.
The pair have been provided with lawyers.
The six arrested were three men and three women and they were being interviewed at police stations in London and Cheshire.
Scotland Yard said detectives were looking into a suspected conspiracy that took place between around 2005 and 2006.
The arrests were made as part of a new line of inquiry separate from allegations under the existing Scotland Yard investigation into phone hacking called Operation Weeting.
A number of people have been charged under Operation Weeting.
In the latest arrests, two men aged 45 and 46 were held in Wandsworth, south London, and a 39-year-old man was detained in Greenwich, south east London.
The three women arrested were a 39-year-old who was detained in Cheshire, a 33-year-old in Islington, north London, and a 40-year-old in Lambeth, south London.
Detectives plan to speak to people they believe have been victims of the suspected phone hacking.
The Metropolitan Police said in a statement: "Detectives on Operation Weeting have identified a further suspected conspiracy to intercept telephone voicemails by a number of employees who worked for the now defunct News of the World newspaper.
"This suspected conspiracy is believed to have taken place primarily during 2005 to 2006. It is separate from the alleged conspiracy already being investigated by Operation Weeting in which a number of people have been charged.
"As part of the new lines of inquiry six people were arrested this morning on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept telephone communications contrary to the Criminal Law Act 1997. All of them are journalists or former journalists."
Sunday tabloid, the News Of The World, was shut down by owner Rupert Murdoch and his family in 2011 amid hacking claims.
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