Rebekah Wade, 37, the editor of Britain's The Sun tabloid, who recently started a campaign in her newspaper against domestic violence, has been arrested on such a charge.

An excerpt from the Media Guardian:

(Rebekah Wade) found herself in a police cell in Battersea, in south-west London, after being subjected to fingerprinting and DNA testing.

Her husband, Ross Kemp, 41, who plays the hardman Grant Mitchell in the BBC's EastEnders, called police at 4am after a row at the couple's south London home and she was arrested. In a twist worthy of a scriptwriter for EastEnders, it emerged later that Kemp's onscreen brother, Phil Mitchell, played by Steve McFadden, was also the subject of an alleged assault by his former partner Angela Bostock yesterday.

The Sun appeared to downplay the story involving its editor today and concentrated instead on the bust-up between McFadden and Ms Bostock.

The story of the soap star and the newspaper editor began on Wednesday evening and involved a cast including David Blunkett, Rupert Murdoch, Elisabeth, his daughter, and PR guru Matthew Freud. Amid febrile rumours - many promoted by rival tabloids - the details of Wade's journey from her office to today's front pages emerged.