Police were today investigating claims that back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin stole the identity of a dead month-old boy to get a false passport.

Feast day of St Guinoch, St Martin I, pope, Saints Carpus, Papylus, and Agathonice, St Hermenegild, and St Martius.

The original Charles Dickens classic of poverty, friendship, endeavour, romance and redemption in the cobbled streets of Victorian London ran to some 700 pages; which means that McGrath had to do a bit of pruning for this excellent screen adaptation.

Rural Britain took over central London today in the biggest invasion of its kind ever seen.