Four journalists or former journalists at Mirror Group Newspapers have been arrested in London by police investigating alleged phone hacking.
Scotland Yard said it had identified a suspected conspiracy to intercept telephone voicemails at the newspaper group. It is believed it mainly concerns the Sunday Mirror.
Police said the probe was being treated separately to News of the World cases.
The primary focus for its investigation is the years 2003 and 2004, they added.
Police working on Operation Weeting said three men, aged 40, 49 and 46, and a 47-year-old woman were held at separate addresses in south London at 06:00 GMT on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept telephone communications contrary to the Criminal Law Act 1997.
All are journalists or former journalists on Mirror Group Newspaper titles, they confirmed.
BBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds said they are widely reported to include the former editor of the People newspaper, Tina Weaver, who is now an editorial member of the Press Complaints Commission.
The others include the current editor of the People, James Scott, his deputy editor Nick Buckley and Mark Thomas, another of the newspaper's former editors.
Mr Scott is also the former deputy editor of the Sunday Mirror.
They are being interviewed at various police stations in London and searches are being carried out at a number of addresses.
Scotland Yard said its officers would be "making contact with people they believe have been victims of the suspected voicemail interceptions" in due course.
It launched Operation Weeting in 2011. The investigation is running alongside Operation Elveden, a probe into illegal payments to public officials, and Operation Tuleta, which is an looking at computer hacking and other privacy breaches.
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