Brooks could be quizzed as witness by phone-hack probe police

News International chief Rebekah Brooks could be questioned by police investigating phone-hacking by the News of the World, the BBC understands.

It is understood she would be interviewed as a witness not a suspect.
She is under pressure to quit over her former editorship of the paper, which has closed amid the hacking scandal.
Relatives of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, whose phone was allegedly hacked, meet Deputy PM Nick Clegg later for talks on the public inquiries.
News Corp chairman, and chief executive, Rupert Murdoch flew into London on Sunday to personally handle his organisation's response to the phone-hacking crisis.
After visiting News International (NI) - which News Corp owns - for talks with senior executives, Mr Murdoch appeared later with Mrs Brooks. Asked what his priority was, he said, "This one," gesturing at her and smiling.
Mrs Brooks was the News of the World (NoW) editor in 2002 when voicemails on 13-year-old Milly Dowler's mobile phone were allegedly intercepted after her abduction.
She has denied all knowledge of any instances of phone-hacking while she was editor.
The emergence of those and other allegations last week prompted NI to announce the closure of NoW after 168 years in print.
The paper's final edition, published on Sunday, included a full-page apology for hacking the mobile phones of hundreds of people. "Quite simply, we lost our way," it said.
'Paid for information' Meanwhile, the BBC understands NI found e-mails in 2007 that appeared to show payments were made to police for information for stories.
The evidence of alleged criminal behaviour was not handed to the Metropolitan Police for investigation until 20 June, 2011, BBC business editor Robert Peston reported.

Police have identified 4,000 possible targets of phone-hacking by journalists

The e-mails appeared to show Andy Coulson, editor of the News of the World from 2003-07, authorising payments to the police for help with stories, Mr Peston reported.
And they also appear to show that phone-hacking went wider than the activities of a single rogue reporter, which the News of the World claimed at the time.
News International said it was "co-operating fully with the police".
Milly's mother Sally Dowler and sister Gemma, as well as other alleged victims of phone-hacking, will meet Labour leader Ed Miliband and Prime Minister David Cameron later in the week.
Home Office minister Damian Green said their views on how the media should now be regulated would be carefully listened to.
The government has announced two independent inquiries into the scandal, firstly a judge-led probe into the activities of the NoW and other papers, and the failure of the original police investigation from 2005 into phone-hacking.
The second inquiry will examine the ethics and culture of the press.
Mr Miliband has said he will force a Commons vote to delay News Corp's proposed takeover of the whole of BSkyB, until the investigation into the NoW is completed.
Former Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Met Police Brian Paddick is among those who will meet political leaders this week. He said he did not find the revelations about police payments that surprising.
"Newspapers go to extraordinary lengths to protect their informants, whether they are police officers or not," he said.
"So it shouldn't be any surprise that although they had evidence police officers were being paid for information, that they actually filed that information away four years ago, and it is only because of the pressure over the phone-hacking they've actually produced this evidence so that the police can investigate."

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