Tony Blair, who took Britain into war in Iraq as prime minister, has been recalled to give additional evidence to the inquiry into the conflict, the inquiry team announced yesterday.

BRITAIN’S chief prosecutor and ex-government legal adviser dealt new blows yesterday to Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s faltering plans to tighten terrorism laws, saying tougher measures are not needed and are likely to stir ill feelings in Muslim communities.

A CONVICTED paedophile who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a three-year-old girl was yesterday jailed for a minimum of five years, sparking outrage from the child’s family and immediate calls for the “unduly lenient” sentence to be referred to Britain’s Court of Appeal.

BRITAIN’s police chief, already under pressure over the mistaken shooting of a suspected suicide bomber, is facing fresh calls to resign for secretly recording a phone call with the country’s senior legal adviser.

AN Afghan warlord faces a life behind bars in a British jail after he was convicted yesterday at the Old Bailey of a “heinous” campaign of torture and hostage taking in his homeland.