LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron promised sweeping new rules for Britain's press on Friday and a full inquiry into failures by police and politicians as his own former spokesman was arrested over a newspaper phone-hacking scandal.
Cameron acted after Rupert Murdoch's News Corp abruptly shut the News of the World, Britain's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper, in response to a growing scandal over alleged phone hacking of celebrities, Britain's royal family, a murdered teenage girl and dead British soldiers.
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