Sun editor laughs off brush with law over 'silly row' with hubbie

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LONDON (AFP) — The editor of Britain's best-selling tabloid is laughing off her brush with the law after she was arrested on suspicion of hitting her husband, her own newspaper said Friday.

Rebekah Wade, 37, at the helm of The Sun since 2003, was released without charge after she was grilled at a south London police station over what police called "an alleged assault".

The supposed victim of the carrot-topped editor with a penchant for sheath-like dresses was her husband Ross Kemp, 41, who plays head-shaven tough-guy Grant Mitchell in the hit BBC television soap opera "EastEnders".

"It was just a silly row which got out of hand," she was quoted as saying in Friday's editions of The Sun, which thrives on celebrity gossip and topless "page three" beauties. "It...