On Tuesday, Blunkett will fight in the Royal Courts of Justice in London for the right to charge victims of miscarriages of justice more than ?3000 for every year they spent in jail while wrongly convicted. The logic is that the innocent man shouldn?t have been in prison eating free porridge and sleeping for nothing under regulation grey blankets.
Blunkett?s fight has been described as ?outrageous?, ?morally repugnant? and the ?sickest of sick jokes?, but his spokesmen in the Home Office say it?s a completely ?reasonable course of action? as the innocent men and women would have spent the money anyway on food and lodgings if they weren?t in prison. The government deems the claw-back ?Saved Living Expenses?.

Musharraf said Monday a Libyan national, probably from the al Qaeda network, was a prime suspect behind an attempt on his life in December in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. "The attack on me, a foreigner was involved ... a Libyan," Musharraf told tribal elders in Peshawar.

THE Roman Catholic Church last night condemned a controversial proposal to pay female drug addicts to take contraception long term as ?social engineering on a massive scale?.