Rupert Murdoch in UK to tackle Sun arrests fallout

Rupert Murdoch, the chief executive of News Corporation, has arrived in London to take charge of the latest crisis involving one of his newspapers.

Ten current and former senior staff at The Sun have been arrested since November in connection with alleged corrupt payments to public officials.

Sun journalists are angry at the way police were handed information by a News Corporation committee.

Mr Murdoch is expected to speak to staff of his UK newspaper group later.

He will address employees at the headquarters of News International in Wapping, east London.

Last year News Corporation closed the News of the World over impropriety.

Revelations that staff employed by the newspaper hacked the phones of public figures prompted the closure of the 168-year-old paper.

Mr Murdoch arrived on a private plane at Luton Airport from the US on Thursday evening.

It follows anger at the way in which the News Corporation’s Management and Standards Committee set up to investigate allegations of wrongdoing at the Sun passed on information to the police.

The National Union of Journalists has said news organisations have a duty to protect their sources, and is considering a legal challenge to the company.

And the paper’s former political editor Trevor Kavanagh used his Sun column to question the management’s actions.

Writing in the Sun’s sister paper, the Times, human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson said newspapers had a legal and moral duty to protect their sources.

Mr Murdoch has previously said he would not close the Sun.