Ronnie Biggs, Britain's most famous fugitive, who fled to Brazil 27 years ago after taking part in the "Great Train Robbery", could be extradited under a pending new bilateral treaty. The robbers made off with £2.6 million pounds in 1963 - the equivalent of about £30 million at today's values - from a Royal Mail train. They were eventually captured and sent to prison, but Biggs, now 67, escaped after serving just 15 months of a 30-year sentence.
Queen Elizabeth should apologise for one of the most horrific episodes of the Raj - when troops opened fire on a gathering in Amritsar - during her visit to India this autumn for celebrations marking 50 years of independence, the nephew of a hanged revolutionary has demanded.
Jagmohan Singh says she could use the occasion to lay to rest the injustices of the past.
Tony Blair would approve the marriage of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, a book published yesterday claims.
The book's author, Derek Draper, quotes a friend of Blair as saying: "Tony cannot say this, but his instincts tell him that if Charles and Camilla wish to marry then they should be allowed to do so."
Downing Street has distanced itself from the book, entitled Blair's Hundred Days, saying that the Prime Minister would keep his opinions on the royal family to himself.