Ian Edmondson

5 April 2011: the former News of the World assistant editor (news) is arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and unlawful interception of voicemail messages.

Operation: Weeting (arrest 1)

Bailed until: March 2012

Neville Thurlbeck

5 April 2011: the News of the World chief reporter is arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and unlawful interception of voicemail messages.

Operation: Weeting (arrest 2)

Bailed until: March 2012

James Weatherup

14 April 2011: the News of the World assistant news editor is arrested on suspicion of unlawfully intercepting communications.

Operation: Weeting (arrest 3)

Bailed until: March 2012

Terenia Taras

23 June 2011: the freelance journalist is arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications. She is taken to a West Yorkshire police station and bailed pending further inquiries.

Operation: Weeting (arrest 4)

Bailed until: February 2012

Laura Elston

28 June 2011: the Press Association's royal correspondent is arrested and bailed as part of Operation Weeting. On 18 July Scotland Yard confirm that Elston's bail has been cancelled and she faces no further action. Her solicitor, David Corker, says: "She has been dropped from the inquiry."

Operation: Weeting (arrest 5)

Bail: cancelled. No further action

Andy Coulson

8 July 2011: the former News of the World editor is arrested by appointment at a south London police station on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and in relation to alleged illegal payments to police officers.

Operation: Weeting (arrest 6)

Operation Elveden (arrest 1)

Bailed until: March 2012

Clive Goodman

8 July 2011: the former News of the World royal editor, 53, jailed in January 2007 for intercepting voicemail messages of members of the royal household, is arrested and bailed as part of the Met investigation into alleged illegal payments to police officers.

Operation: Elveden (arrest 2)

Bailed until: March 2012

63-year-old man

8 July 2011: a man whose identity is unknown is arrested and bailed as part of Operation Weeting and Operation Elveden.

Operation: Elveden (arrest 3)

Bailed until: March 2012

Neil Wallis

14 July 2011: the former News of the World executive editor is taken for questioning at a west London police station on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications. Wallis joined the News of the World from the People in 2003 as deputy to the then editor Andy Coulson. In mid-2007 he became executive editor and he left the News International title in 2009.

Operation: Weeting (arrest 7)

Bailed until: March 2012

Rebekah Brooks

17 July 2011: the former News of the World and Sun editor and News International chief executive is arrested by appointment in relation to phone hacking and illegal payments to police.

Operation Weeting (arrest 8)

Operation: Elveden (arrest 4)

Bailed until: March 2012

Stuart Kuttner

2 August 2011: the former News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner, 71, is arrested and released on bail as part of Operation Weeting and Operation Elveden. Kuttner worked at the paper for 22 years.

Operation: Weeting (arrest 9)

Operation: Elveden (arrest 5)

Bailed until: mid-March 2012

Greg Miskiw

10 August 2011: the former News of the World news editor Greg Miskiw, 61, is arrested and bailed as part of Operation Weeting on suspicion of unlawful interception of communications and on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications.

Operation: Weeting (arrest 10)

Bailed until: March 2012

James Desborough

18 August 2011: the 38-year-old, an award-winning former Hollywood reporter at the News of the World, is arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications after attending a south London police station by appointment.

Operation: Weeting (arrest 11)

Bailed until: March 2012

Police detective

19 August 2011: a police detective is arrested on suspicion of leaking details about Scotland Yard's phone-hacking investigation. The man has not been charged but has been suspended by the Metropolitan police.

Dan Evans

19 August 2011: the former News of the World reporter is arrested on suspicion of phone hacking. Evans had been suspended by the paper after being named in a civil case against the now defunct tabloid's publisher, News Group Newspapers, brought by the interior designer Kelly Hoppen.

Operation: Weeting (arrest 12)

Bailed until: March 2012

Ross Hall

2 September 2011: the 30-year-old former News of the World journalist is arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages and attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Hall, who worked under the name Ross Hindley until September 2006, is believed to be the man who transcribed the "for Neville" email that was sent to the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire and became a pivotal piece of evidence in the phone-hacking affair.

Operation: Weeting (arrest 13)

Bailed until: mid-January 2012

Raoul Simons

7 September 2011: the 35-year-old deputy football editor of the Times is arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages. Simons joined the Times from the Evening Standard in August 2009, but has been on extended leave since late 2010.

Operation: Weeting (arrest 14)

Bailed until: March 2012

Jamie Pyatt

4 November 2011: the 48-year-old district editor of the Sun is arrested in connection with allegations of inappropriate payments to police. He has been working at the Sun since 1987.

Operation: Elveden (arrest 6)

Bailed until: March 2012

52-year-old man

24 November 2011: a 52-year-old man becomes the first person arrested as part of the Metropolitan police's investigation into alleged computer hacking by the press. The man is arrested in Milton Keynes in connection with computer misuse act offences.

Operation Tuleta (arrest 1)

Bailed until: March 2012

Bethany Usher

30 November 2011: a university lecturer and former journalist with the News of the World is arrested in Northumberland on suspicion of intercepting voicemail messages. A week later Usher is in the clear, with Scotland Yard announcing it is taking "no further action". Usher denied any involvement in phone hacking and in a statement said she had quit journalism and gone into teaching because she had become "disillusioned".

Operation: Weeting (arrest 15)

Bail: cancelled

Glenn Mulcaire

7 December 2011: Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the centre of the phone-hacking scandal, is arrested on suspicion of attempting to perverting the course of justice.

Operation: Weeting (arrest 16)

Bailed until: March 2012

Lucy Panton

15 December 2011: the former crime editor of the News of the World is believed to have been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged payments to police officers.

Operation: Elveden (arrest 7)

Bailed until April 2012

Police officer

21 December 2011: a 52-year-old female serving police officer was arrested over payments from journalists.

The woman, believed to be a royal protection officer, is held at an Essex police station after detectives arrested her at her home at dawn. She is the first police officer arrested under Operation Elveden, which was set up after allegations that corrupt police received payments of £130,000 from the News of the World over a number of years.

Operation: Elveden (arrest 8)

Bailed until: April 2012

Cheryl Carter

6 January 2011: the long-serving personal assistant to the former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks is arrested by detectives investigating phone hacking. Carter, 47, is taken into custody at a police station in Essex on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice. She is the third person arrested on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice after Glenn Mulcaire and Ross Hall.

Operation: Weeting (arrest 17)

Bailed until: March 2012

Police officer

28 January 2012: the 29-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of corruption, aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office and conspiracy in relation to the two previous offences.

Operation: Elveden (arrest 12)

Bailed

Mike Sullivan

28 January 2012: the crime editor of the Sun is arrested in on suspicion of corruption, aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office and conspiracy in relation to the two previous offences.

Operation: Elveden

Bailed

Graham Dudman

28 January 2012: the former managing editor of the Sun is arrested in on suspicion of corruption, aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office and conspiracy in relation to the two previous offences.

Operation: Elveden

Bailed

Fergus Shanahan

28 January 2012: the executive editor of the Sun is arrested in on suspicion of corruption, aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office and conspiracy in relation to the two previous offences.

Operation: Elveden

Bailed

Chris Pharo

28 January 2012: a news desk executive of the Sun is arrested in on suspicion of corruption, aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office and conspiracy in relation to the two previous offences.

Operation: Elveden

Bailed

Geoff Webster

11 February 2012: the Sun's deputy editor is arrested on suspicion of corruption, aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office, and conspiracy in relation to both these offences.

Operation Elveden

Bailed

John Kay

11 February 2012: the Sun's chief reporter is arrested on suspicion of corruption, aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office, and conspiracy in relation to both these offences.

Operation Elveden

Bailed

John Edwards

11 February 2012: the Sun's picture editor is arrested on suspicion of corruption, aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office, and conspiracy in relation to both these offences.

Operation Elveden

Bailed

Nick Parker

11 February 2012: the Sun's chief foreign correspondent is arrested on suspicion of corruption, aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office, and conspiracy in relation to both these offences.

Operation Elveden

Bailed

John Sturgis

11 February 2012: the Sun's deputy news editor is arrested on suspicion of corruption, aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office, and conspiracy in relation to both these offences.

Operation Elveden

Bailed

Police officer

11 February 2012: a police officer, 39, from the Surrey force is arrested on suspicion of corruption, misconduct in a public office and conspiracy in relation to both.

Operation Elveden

Bailed

Ministry of Defence employee

11 February 2012: an MoD employee, 39, is arrested on suspicion of corruption, misconduct in a public office and conspiracy in relation to both.

Operation Elveden

Bailed

Member of armed forces

11 February 2012: a 36-year-old is arrested on suspicion of corruption, misconduct in a public office and conspiracy in relation to both.

Operation Elveden

Bailed

Rebekah Brooks

13 March 2012: Rearrested by detectives from Operation Weeting on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.

Operation: Weeting (re-arrest on different charges)

Charlie Brooks

13 March 2012: Understood to be arrested by detectives from Operation Weeting on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.

Operation: Weeting (arrest 18)

39-year-old man

13 March 2012: Arrested by detectives from Operation Weeting on suspicion of perverting the course of justice. Arrested at home address in Hampshire.

Operation: Weeting (arrest 19)

46-year-old man

13 March 2012: Arrested by detectives from Operation Weeting on suspicion of perverting the course of justice. Arrested at home address in west London.

Operation: Weeting (arrest 20)

38-year-old man

13 March 2012: Arrested by detectives from Operation Weeting on suspicion of perverting the course of justice. Arrested at home address in Hertfordshire.

Operation: Weeting (arrest 21)

48-year-old man

13 March 2012: Arrested by detectives from Operation Weeting on suspicion of perverting the course of justice. Arrested at business address in east London.

Operation: Weeting (arrest 22)