Michael Ireland, 60, was jailed after admitting a total of 25 offences against eight women, including five counts of sexual assault against Joanne Mulholland (pictured).

Jason McPartland, 41, hit his victim on the set of the ITV show at the Granada studios in Manchester in an episode considered so violent it was never broadcast.

Oswald Laurence’s iconic recording of ‘Mind the gap, please’ can now be heard on the Northern Line at Embankment.

Rumours that James Middleton’s business is in trouble and that he could take up a role in Made in Chelsea have been circulating. He spoke out to dismiss the claims.

Alan Tierney, a former Surrey police constable, sold details of the 2009 arrest of Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood to the newspaper. Prison officer Richard Trunkfield also admitted selling information at the Old Bailey.

Doctors have been conducting routine tests on the 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero today in Pretoria and have indicated so far that there is ‘no reason for any alarm.’

Judges sent a doctor to examine former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi who has now missed two appearances in court to appeal his jail sentence for tax fraud and to stand trial for having sex with an underage prostitute.

The Business Secretary, in Brighton for the Lib Dem spring conference, warned industry will be damaged if a fresh round of cuts is imposed on his budget.

Huhne will be sentenced for perverting the course of justice on Monday, but the Lib Dem leader used a speech on the environment to extol his achievements and attack the Tories.

But far from being a serious assault on the scale of a Napoleonic invasion, the French military stormed a beach in Gosport, Hampshire, as part of a training exercise.