Coming just over a year after the album Quare Groove Vol. 1 pulled back the lid on a hidden world of Irish funk music of the 1970s and ’80s, comes another compilation album from the same stable that puts the spotlight on the early jazz fusion and folk scene.

EX-MI5 agent David Shayler, who was jailed in Britain for breaching the Official Secrets Act, vowed to fight to clear his name after leaving prison on early release yesterday.

Former MI5 officer David Shayler, who was jailed for breaching the Official Secrets Act, has vowed to "fight on" to clear his name when he left jail on early release.

SECOND trials in notorious cases such as the murders of Stephen Lawrence and Damilola Taylor could go ahead under a sweeping reform of the trial system announced by the British Home Secretary yesterday.