There have been seven further arrests this month in connection with Operation Elveden, an investigation into inappropriate payments made to police and public officials by journalists. Two journalists from the Sun have been charged, along with a former health care assistant at the Broadmoor high-security psychiatric hospital, with conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office. It is alleged that they paid public officials for information on psychiatric patients as well as a member of the Royal family. So far 69 people have been arrested in connection with the phone hacking investigation.