Trial date set for manager
Liverpool crown court yesterday set November 27 as the trial date for Southampton FC manager Dave Jones, who is charged with 13 child abuse offences.
Jones, a father of four, faces six indecent assault charges, six of assault and a further charge relating to a serious sexual offence on a boy aged 16 or under.
The 43-year-old former Everton defender was given conditional bail.
The case was adjourned for a further plea and directions hearing.
No Shipman verdict yet
The jury in the Harold Shipman trial at Preston crown court was yesterday sent home for a third night without returning any verdicts on the 15 murder charges against him.
The seven men and five women have spent a total of just over 17 hours considering their verdicts.
Boy lands DJ in trouble
The broadcasting standards commission yesterday reprimanded a DJ who encouraged a schoolboy to make offensive remarks about his teacher.
Kev Seed was hosting a feature, Throw your teacher to the sharks, on Liverpool's Radio City FM when the teenager fired off a string of personal insults against his teacher, Stephanie Schofield. Seed gave him a prize for bravery.
Union pulls out of animal lab
The shopworkers' union, Usdaw, is to dispose of investments in a firm which carries out vivisection experiments on animals.
Usdaw said yesterday it had discovered it had holdings in Huntingdon Life Sciences, a frequent target for animal rights protests, after disclosures that Labour's staff pension fund had shares in the firm.
Child killer freed
A woman jailed at the age of 15 for stabbing to death a fellow teenager in a Glasgow school attack eight years ago was yesterday released on life licence.
Barbara Glover, 23, was sentenced to be detained without limit for murdering Diane Watson, 16.
