Iraqi detainee Baha Mousa was subjected to interrogation tactics branded illegal by the Government's chief law adviser more than 30 years before, an inquiry was told today.

Five days into the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, with the superpowers on the brink of confrontation, President Richard Nixon was too drunk to discuss the crisis with the British prime minister, according to newly released transcripts of tape recordings.

A lawyer representing families of the Bloody Sunday victims has complained to the chairman of the Saville Inquiry about the abusive language used by former British Prime Minister Edward Heath. F