A TURKISH court has ordered the release of the man convicted of stabbing two Leeds United football fans to death, his lawyer said yesterday.

A HEAD waiter at the Savoy Hotel spent 18 years pilfering from his employers, a court heard yesterday.

ONE of the best-known rock and pop festivals in the British Isles will not take place next year because its organiser says he wants to give local people a "breather".

FAITH-BASED schools may be harming the fabric of British society, the chief inspector of schools in England claimed yesterday, in comments that brought immediate condemnation from Muslim and Roman Catholic representatives.

A 42-YEAR-OLD man was charged last night with the rape and murder of the pregnant teenager Amy Williams, whose body was found in a churchyard two days after Christmas.

A FIRST edition of DH Lawrence's controversial novel Lady Chatterley's Lover sold for more than £3,200 at auction in Bath yesterday to a bidder from Switzerland.

RACING pundit John McCririck last night became the second celebrity to be evicted from the Big Brother house.

EXPLORER Sir Ranulph Fiennes, 60, is to wed for the second time and has planned a honeymoon in Tibet.

SIR Mark Thatcher, who left South Africa last week after admitting helping to bankroll a coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, is staying in London, it emerged last night.

AN OBSESSIVE stalker was jailed for life yesterday for raping his victim and stabbing her boyfriend to death in front of her.

KATE Winslet, who was denied at the Golden Globes, has a double shot at BAFTA glory after landing two best-actress nominations, for her performances in Finding Neverland and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.

A FEMME fatale who used the powerful date rape drug Rohypnol to knock out wealthy businessmen before robbing them was jailed for five years yesterday as detectives revealed she had struck at least six times.

CRIMINALS face being identified within minutes of police arriving on the scene following new developments in DNA technology.

A £3 million campaign will encourage teenagers to increase their dairy intake in order to avoid osteoporosis in later life.

CHINESE visitors are to be given special visas to come to the UK in an effort to tap into the world's fastest-growing tourism market, The Scotsman has learned.

THE British Dietetic Association talk about the wheel of food and good health which encourages people to eat a balance of nutrients.

A WITNESS who claimed he heard Michael Stone confess in his cell to the hammer murders of Lin Russell and her daughter Megan was a heroin-addicted career criminal with psychiatric problems, it was alleged at the Court of Appeal yesterday.

CELEBRITIES and public figures including the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and the Duke of York turned DJ yesterday to help raise more than £3 million for the victims of the Asian tsunami.

THE string of unexplained deaths at the army's Deepcut base were caused by cuts in the defence budget, the general in charge of the army at the time said last night.

A MAN accused of killing his newlywed daughter is refusing to eat while on remand in prison and insists that he wants to die, a court heard yesterday.