Former Tory Minister Douglas Hogg was heckled in a courtroom today by protesters demanding a full inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.

US President George Bush was given special treatment to avoid being sent to war in Vietnam as a young man, it was claimed today.

US president George Bush has criticised a TV commercial that accused Democrat rival John Kerry of inflating his own Vietnam War record, saying broadcast attacks by outside groups had no place in the race for the White House.