The Sun reporter Alex West, the son of Admiral Lord West, was arrested for alleged drugs offences according Daily Telegraph sources.
West was said to have been approached by a drug dealer who offered him cocaine outside a night club in east London on 6 January.
He was later released without charge on police bail.
The editor of the Sun Rebekah Wade has suspended West who joined the paper last year.
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