2 Arrested As Britain Revives Case At Tabloid.

LONDON -- Scotland Yard said Tuesday that two journalists had been arrested, questioned and released on bail in the renewed inquiry into a five-year-old case involving illegal hacking of celebrity voice mail by The News of the World, the gossip-driven tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch that is one of Britain's most widely circulated newspapers. The two were ''arrested on suspicion of unlawfully intercepting mobile phone voice-mail messages,'' according to a police statement, which did not name the reporters because they had not been charged. A person familiar with the investigation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to discuss the matter, identified them as Ian Edmondson, who was fired as the tabloid's news editor this year; and Neville Thurlbeck, the paper's chief reporter. Scotland Yard investigators searched the paper's newsroom while the two were being questioned, he said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]