Operation Elveden: two former NHS staff arrested Officers from Scotland Yard's Operation Elveden have made two arrests. Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP Two former NHS workers have been arrested by police investigating inappropriate payments from journalists. A man, aged 46, and a woman, aged 42, were arrested at an address in Bridgwater, Somerset, on Thursday morning on suspicion of corruption and of conspiracy to cause misconduct in public office. The pair are being questioned at a police station in Somerset by detectives from Scotland Yard's Operation Elveden investigation. They are the 38th and 39th arrests in the Metropolitan police probe into inappropriate payments from journalists. The pair were held following information provided to police from News Corporation's management and standards committee. The Metropolitan police said in a statement: "Officers investigating allegations of inappropriate payments to police and public officials have arrested two people in Somerset this morning. The arrests were made by officers from Operation Elveden which is being supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) and is being run in conjunction with Operation Weeting, the MPS inquiry into the phone hacking of voicemail boxes. Earlier on Thursday, detectives from Scotland Yard's linked Operation Weeting investigation into phone hacking arrested a 26-year-old man in Surrey on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. On Wednesday three people were arrested by Elveden detectives, including a former Mirror journalist and a prison officer.