Hans and Eva Rausing must be a lovely couple. Charming, in fact. Possibly the most lovely, charming and persuasive people you could possibly meet. We are sure the charm isn't derived from the fact that they happen to be very well-off, being the heirs to a £5bn fortune (Hans's father owns Tetra Pak, the huge food packaging business). Their charm seems to have reached an almost ludicrous level in Horseferry Road Magistrates' Court this......

Now that Scotland Yard have handed their files on the Litvinenko investigation over to the Crown Prosecution Service, the BBC are hazarding a guess at who done it - former KGB officer Andrei Lugovoi in the Mayfair hotel with the radioactive teapot. Mr Lugovoi met Mr Litvinenko on the day he fell ill, and radioactive polonium-210 has been found in a string of places he had visited in London. But Mr Lugovoi has said......

The case against the Metropolitan Police over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes reopens in court today. The first hearing, which was scheduled for last month, had to be adjourned until today after the Met's lawyers requested extra time to consider their plea. Incredible really when you consider that they're being prosecuted under health and safety laws (as a result of the Crown Prosecution Service deciding that there was no evidence to charge......

BBC: A woman has been charged in connection with an alleged plot to blow up several transatlantic airliners. 4.20 Better make that eleven people according to the BBC news alerts. Meanwhile: More than 30 people were involved in an evacuation from a freight shuttle in the Channel Tunnel when smoke was seen coming from the train. The operator Eurotunnel said it suspended rail services from Monday lunchtime after a fire alarm went off. 4.25:......

The decision on whether police are to be charged over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes is due to be announced on July 17, the Crown Prosecution Service have announced. Bow Street court closes its doors this Friday. Ah, the memories. The UK's first ever gay prom will hit London next week. Woody Allen interview about his new film Scoop (his second to be filmed in London). Includes the question: Do you now......

Some of the people who were present at the protests at the Danish Embassy last month will be arrested 'in the near future' the Crown Prosecution Service has said. Passengers on a flight from London to Gothenburg were held at gunpoint when they reached Landvetter airport yesterday, while two masked men robbed the plane of a large sum of foreign currency. Police are appealing for witnesses to the fatal shooting of a man, 20, and......

Shoot first, ask questions lie later. Azelle Rodney was killed by a police marksman in Edgware last April after twenty five police officers were involved in an operation following the car he was a backseat passenger in. His family are now asking why the officer in question (known only as E7) has not been questioned in the IPCC inquiry. As is now apparently the norm the first step the police took was to claim......