The release of black cab rapist John Worboys from a prison in England has been put on hold after victims won the first step in a legal challenge.

A legal challenge has been launched by Newcastle United FC over documents seized from the club by officials conducting a tax probe.

Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson has won permission to appeal against a High Court decision that News Group Newspapers (NGN) does not have to pay his potential legal costs over the phone-hacking affair.

POLICE probing phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World arrested a private investigator who was previously jailed for his role in the scandal.

A bid to relax the law on home abortions was rejected by the High Court in the UK today.