British Home Secretary David Blunkett vowed today to “nail” the English football hooligan who walked free because of an apparent legal blunder.

English hooligans were tonight warned they will serve jail terms dished out by Portuguese courts after an apparent blunder saw one ringleader escape his sentence.

Seventy firefighters in England are trying to rescue two people trapped high in a block of flats after a large blaze engulfed a block of flats.