A prison officer and a former Mirror journalist were arrested today in connection with the police probe into alleged corrupt payments to public officials.

Press Association has named the Mirror man Greig Box Turnbull, 37, who worked for Trinity Mirror until taking voluntary redundancy in March. He was arrested at his home in Morden, Surrey.

The prison worker, 46, was arrested at his home in south-east London, and a 50-year-old woman was held at a non-residential address in Kent.