[July 08, 2011] BRIEF: Report: Former Cameron aide questioned over phone-hacking claims Tweet LONDON, Jul 08, 2011 (dpa - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- British police was Friday questioning a former news editor and close aide of Prime Minister David Cameron in connection with the spiralling phone-hacking scandal, the Times newspaper reported. Andy Coulson, who stepped down as Cameron's communications chief in January over the scandal, was editor of the News of the World until 2007. The Times said Coulson had voluntarily gone to a central London police station. The Guardian reported that he would face arrest. Coulson, 43, has always denied any knowledge of the phone-hacking practices at the paper. On Thursday, its owner, Australian press magnate Rupert Murdoch, announced the closure of the News of the World, which will publish its last edition on Sunday. The move came after figures released by the paper -- Britain's best-selling tabloid that has been around for 168 years -- showed that 4,000 people had been subjected to illegal phone-hacking by investigators and journalists working for the paper. In Britain, Murdoch also owns the Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times. To see more of dpa, go to http://www.dpa.de/English.82.0.html Copyright (c) 2011, dpa, Berlin Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For more information about the content services offered by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services (MCT), visit www.mctinfoservices.com. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]