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The Court of Session in Edinburgh heard the claim during the Scottish Socialist MSP’s defamation action.

Paul Holleran, Scottish organiser of the National Union of Journalists, told jurors Anvar Khan had been put under pressure by the News of the World.

Mr Sheridan claims a series of articles about his sex life were untrue.

Signed affidavit

Mr Holleran, 50, said he was contacted by Miss Khan in October or November 2004 as she wanted advice on a contractual problem she was having with the News of the World, for which she was a columnist.

He said: “She was concerned that her contract was not going to be renewed unless she co-operated with the demands of the editor and signed an affidavit.”

The witness said the man in question was Bob Bird, editor of the Scottish edition.

Mr Holleran told the court Miss Khan did not want anything to do with the affidavit and could not see why it should affect her contract.

Mr Sheridan asked if Miss Khan had been placed under pressure to sign a legal document.

The witness replied: “Yes.”

Anvar Khan claimed to have an affair with Mr Sheridan

Under cross-examination by Michael Jones QC, for the News of the World, Mr Holleran was questioned about the editors’ Code of Practice, which regulates the Press.

He asked the witness if it was in the public interest to expose a , who was a leader of a mainstream party, who was guilty of hypocrisy.

Mr Holleran replied: “That would be.”

Mr Jones later asked if Mr Holleran had asked Miss Khan’s permission to give details about their meetings.

Mr Holleran said: “I did not feel I had to.”

Tabloid rival

Later the court heard that a story about Mr Sheridan having group sex in a hotel suite was offered to the Mail on Sunday after the women who made the claims had signed a 14,000 contract with the News of the World.

The Mail on Sunday’s Scottish news editor said he had been contacted by a lawyer acting on behalf of Helen Allison and Anne Colvin, two months after the Glasgow MSP resigned as leader of the Scottish Socialist Party.

Jamie Macaskill said the solicitor had mentioned money the first time she called the Mail on Sunday and claimed its tabloid rival had offered her clients 20,000.

Actor Peter Mullan lent his support to Mr Sheridan and his wife

But after further inquiries Mr Macaskill and his editor decided to abandon the story when they agreed it would not provide “good value for money”.

The jury previously heard Mrs Colvin, 54, contacted the News of the World in November 2004 after it printed an article which accused Mr Sheridan of having a four-year affair with former prostitute Fiona McGuire.

Both she and her friend, Ms Allison, 52, were later paid an advance of 1,000 each for their story and promised a further 6,000 when it was published.

But Mrs Colvin said negotiations broke down after the pair did not want their names and pictures to appear in the tabloid.

Day 17 of the civil action also had a touch of celebrity as award-winning actor Peter Mullan arrived in court for part of the morning session to lend his support to Mr Sheridan.

The star of My Name Is Joe and Young Adam left the court building at lunchtime, wearing a t-shirt and jeans, with his arm around Mr Sheridan, who was accompanied by his wife, Gail.

The trial continues.

The jury of six men and five women have heard claims of group sex, swingers clubs and drug taking.

Mr Sheridan said: “Regardless of today’s verdict, I am one of the most fortunate men in the world.”

Arriving at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, he said: “I have such a beautiful and loyal wife and such a beautiful and loyal family.”

Closing speeches in the five-week, 200,000 case at the Court of Session have taken place this week.

The former Scottish Socialist Party leader denies the claims which the paper said were “substantially” true.

Mr Sheridan is suing the News of the World over allegations that he visited a sex club, committed adultery and in orgies.

‘Life and reputation’

During the case, MSPs, and former prostitutes have been among the witnesses called to give evidence.

Mr Sheridan sacked his legal team early in the action and has been conducting his own case ever since.

The judge, Lord Turnbull, finished directing the jury on Friday morning.

In summing up, Mr Sheridan had challenged the jury to consider why he would risk his “life and reputation” by behaving in the way the Sunday tabloid alleged.

It is essential that when you analyse the evidence and consider your verdict, that you put out of your mind any view you may have held about Mr Sheridan Lord Turnbull

He attacked the paper and suggested the accusations had come from a combination of financial inducement and political infighting.

The QC for the News of the World, Michael Jones, defended the integrity of the witnesses and questioned whether 18 people unconnected to the paper could have stood in the witness box and lied under oath.

Mr Jones said history was littered with “political corpses” brought down by their own recklessness.

In beginning his direction to the jury on Thursday, Lord Turnbull stressed their decision must not be influenced by emotion, bias, their personal views or the extensive media coverage the case has attracted.

Some of the claims centred around the Cupids club in Manchester

He told the jurors: “It is essential that when you analyse the evidence and consider your verdict, that you put out of your mind any view you may have held about Mr Sheridan.”

The judge also acknowledged the News Of The World was a newspaper about which some people hold strong views.

He said: “I am not aware of ever having bought or read a single copy of the News Of The World but I am not in any position whatsoever to judge its journalistic standards.”

From the articles that have been put before the court during the case, Lord Turnbull said the newspaper appeared to specialise in “human interest features”.

Again, he stressed it was vital for the jury to put their own views about the Sunday newspaper to one side and focus on the evidence.

Key questions

Lord Turnbull also told the jury that in a civil case the burden of proof was the balance of .

This is different from criminal cases where allegations have to be proved beyond reasonable doubt, he said.

The judge also said corroboration, which applies in criminal cases, does not apply in civil cases.

The jury were reminded that the four issues they had to consider were whether Mr Sheridan committed adultery, whether he was a swinger, whether he took part in orgies and whether the teetotal politician drank champagne.

Lord Turnbull said: “They are defamatory because they mean he was a hypocrite and an abuser of his position of power as a party leader.”

The jury then retired to consider its verdict.

Its sister , the Anti-Nazi League, was founded in 1977 and continues to play a major role in corralling opposition to racism.

Like just about everything these days, punk is either enjoying a revival or due for one soon.

Attitude is still everything

Retching guitars and raw vocals have certainly been a recurrent favourite since the days of Sham 69 and Stiff Little Fingers, but it is the “do-it-yourself” ethic of punk that is its biggest legacy in music. Today, groups can mix an album in a laptop - no need to pay for pricey multi-track studios.

“Punk”, the word, has also become a keenly applied suffix, generally denoting a rough, raw element to a type of music, such as skate punk, anarcho punk. Although quite why bubblegum trio de jour Busted warrant the label “punk pop” is anyone’s guess.

It was clothes, not music, which first brought punk to mainstream attention. Songs were often banned, and bands played in underground clubs, but sullen youths in DMs and spiked haircuts were harder to miss.

Not as far apart as you think…

Out went the flares of disco and natural fibres of hippy chic; in came all things synthetic - nylon, rubber, lurid colours and black. This emphasis on image was no accident. Malcolm McLaren’s then-wife, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, put much into the Sex Pistols’ look.

Today ripped fishnets and stencilled leather no longer turn heads. But punk’s influence lives on, in the sales racks jammed with bondage pants and striped tops, and in collections by Westwood and Alexander McQueen. Even the late Gianni Versace co-opted the safety pin for that Liz Hurley dress.

Energy. Attitude. Humour. A desire to shock. An enthusiasm for DIY techniques and found objects.

YBA Sarah Lucas

Punk’s visual language - typified by Jamie Reid’s collage for the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind… album - can also be found in work by contemporary artists such as Sarah Lucas and Gavin Turk (both at a formative age when punk was at its peak). Graphic designers, too, found a new edge in punk’s rough-edged images.

But punk and art have long been closely entwined. Arts students were as crucial to the movement as working class concerns, and the New York art scene is thought to have helped sowed the seeds of punk.

Nor did punk pioneer the use of found objects and photo montage - cash-strapped art students have long used whatever is to hand in their works, as did the surrealists.

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A truer legacy is the riots at the Battle of Seattle, the books Fast Food Nation and No Logo, and any of the growing underground musical scenes.
Andrew Davies, England

Punk in many guises is alive and kicking in the UK these days. There is a strong DIY ethic and bands/promoters/record labels communicate freely using the internet, which has opened up new opportunities to get messages across and create a sort of underground community.
Rich, Wales

Punk was a liberating movement. Anarchy is about freedom. Few, if any, laws. Freedom to speak your views, whether they be racist/sexist or whatever. Punk meant freedom/liberalisation via anarchy not music and clothes.
Simon Hickey, Stockport, UK

Weren’t the Sex Pistols the first completely boy band?
Philippa Margaretson, Barking

The Monkees pre-date the Sex Pistols by quite some time.
Simon Gibbons, Luxembourg

Everything that punk stood for was already there and active. The anti-establishment, freedom to say, do, look however you want had been in existence since the 60s. The Sex Pistols knew that - that’s why they named it the Great Rock ‘n’ Roll swindle. A triumph of marketing over substance.
Al, UK

As you read this, thousands of frustrated, creative individuals in all parts of the globe are communicating directly with each other. A tenacious underground network exists for the of ideas, information and self-produced materials. Punk is a state of mind and a way of life.
Stuart, Scotland

This all seems a bit highbrow to me. As a relic of that era, my main recollection is the endless ‘gobbing’. Punk was just another version of youth taking delight in upsetting their parents and other old gits (which of course we are all now - Lydon included̷
Robo, UK

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Carol Croydon, 37, allegedly stabbed her husband Philip 22 times before tying him up and leaving him naked on the bedroom floor of a hotel.

She later told police her husband had invited her to a swingers party and she had left him with another couple.

Mrs Croydon denies murdering her husband at the Hilton Hotel at East Midlands Airport on 25 April last year.

Crown Court was told on Wednesday that Mr Croydon had arranged to meet his wife at the hotel to boost their “flagging” marriage.

The two of them had intercourse together on the sofa in the living room Timothy Spencer, QC Prosecutor

The couple, who lived in Paddock Close, Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire, were both having affairs at the time of the meeting but neither knew of the other’s indiscretions, said Timothy Spencer QC, prosecuting.

Earlier in the day Mrs Croydon had booked a room for her lover Nelson Bland at the nearby Travel Inn.

She was said to have had “murder in mind” when she left home that morning, taking with her several men’s ties and a scarf.

A four-inch cheese knife used in boardroom meetings at her workplace, Blue 8, near Sandiacre, had also , the court heard.

Found by maid

Less than an hour after Mr Croydon arrived at the hotel, she had stabbed him to death and trussed him up with the ties and scarf to disguise the killing as a
kinky bondage session, Mr Spencer said.

Later that night her lover visited her home, the prosecution said.

Mr Spencer told the court: “The two of them had intercourse together on the sofa in the living room.

“The stark reality is that within eight hours of stabbing her husband to death this defendant was having sexual intercourse with her lover.”

Mr Croydon’s body was discovered at about 0900 GMT the following day by a hotel maid.

Group sex

Mrs Croydon then concocted a story about a couple called Brian and Linda who they had group sex with, said Mr Spencer.

She told police she had gone to room 328 and another couple called Brian and Linda were there for group sex.

Mrs Croydon said she had sex with Brian while Linda performed a sex act on her husband, the court heard.

She then said she lost her nerve and left the room after changing her clothes.

The trial continues.

The Court of Session in Edinburgh heard the claim during the Scottish Socialist MSP’s action.

Paul Holleran, Scottish organiser of the National Union of Journalists, told jurors Anvar Khan had been put under pressure by the News of the World.

Mr Sheridan claims a series of articles about his sex life were untrue.

Signed affidavit

Mr Holleran, 50, said he was contacted by Miss Khan in October or November 2004 as she wanted advice on a contractual problem she was having with the News of the World, for which she was a columnist.

He said: “She was concerned that her contract was not going to be renewed unless she co-operated with the demands of the editor and signed an affidavit.”

The witness said the man in question was Bob Bird, editor of the Scottish edition.

Mr Holleran told the court Miss Khan did not want anything to do with the affidavit and could not see why it should affect her contract.

Mr Sheridan asked if Miss Khan had been placed under pressure to sign a legal document.

The witness replied: “Yes.”

Anvar Khan claimed to have an affair with Mr Sheridan

Under cross-examination by Michael Jones QC, for the News of the World, Mr Holleran was questioned about the editors’ Code of Practice, which regulates the Press.

He asked the witness if it was in the public interest to expose a politician, who was a leader of a party, who was guilty of hypocrisy.

Mr Holleran replied: “That would be.”

Mr Jones later asked if Mr Holleran had asked Miss Khan’s permission to give details about their confidential meetings.

Mr Holleran said: “I did not feel I had to.”

Tabloid rival

Later the court heard that a story about Mr Sheridan having group sex in a hotel suite was offered to the Mail on Sunday after the women who made the claims had signed a 14,000 contract with the News of the World.

The Mail on Sunday’s Scottish news editor said he had been contacted by a lawyer acting on behalf of Helen Allison and Anne Colvin, two months after the Glasgow MSP resigned as leader of the Scottish Socialist Party.

Jamie Macaskill said the solicitor had mentioned money the first time she called the Mail on Sunday and claimed its tabloid rival had offered her clients 20,000.

Actor Peter Mullan lent his support to Mr Sheridan and his wife

But after further inquiries Mr Macaskill and his editor decided to abandon the story when they agreed it would not provide “good value for money”.

The jury previously heard Mrs Colvin, 54, contacted the News of the World in November 2004 after it printed an article which accused Mr Sheridan of having a four-year affair with former prostitute Fiona McGuire.

Both she and her friend, Ms Allison, 52, were later paid an advance of 1,000 each for their story and promised a further 6,000 when it was published.

But Mrs Colvin said negotiations broke down after the pair did not want their names and pictures to appear in the tabloid.

Day 17 of the civil action also had a touch of celebrity as award-winning actor Peter Mullan arrived in court for part of the morning session to lend his support to Mr Sheridan.

The star of My Name Is Joe and Young Adam left the court building at lunchtime, wearing a t-shirt and jeans, with his arm around Mr Sheridan, who was accompanied by his wife, Gail.

The trial continues.

The jury of six men and five women have heard claims of group sex, swingers clubs and drug taking.

Mr Sheridan said: “Regardless of today’s verdict, I am one of the most fortunate men in the world.”

Arriving at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, he said: “I have such a beautiful and loyal wife and such a beautiful and loyal family.”

Closing speeches in the five-week, 200,000 case at the Court of Session have taken place this week.

The former Scottish Socialist Party leader denies the claims which the paper said were “substantially” true.

Mr Sheridan is suing the News of the World over allegations that he visited a sex club, committed adultery and participated in orgies.

‘Life and reputation’

During the case, MSPs, and former prostitutes have been among the witnesses called to give evidence.

Mr Sheridan sacked his legal team early in the action and has been conducting his own case ever since.

The judge, Lord Turnbull, finished directing the jury on Friday morning.

In summing up, Mr Sheridan had challenged the jury to consider why he would risk his “life and reputation” by behaving in the way the Sunday tabloid alleged.

It is essential that when you analyse the evidence and consider your verdict, that you put out of your mind any view you may have held about Mr Sheridan Lord Turnbull

He attacked the paper and suggested the accusations had come from a combination of financial inducement and political infighting.

The QC for the News of the World, Michael Jones, defended the integrity of the witnesses and questioned whether 18 people unconnected to the paper could have stood in the witness box and lied under oath.

Mr Jones said history was littered with “political corpses” brought down by their own .

In beginning his direction to the jury on Thursday, Lord Turnbull stressed their decision must not be influenced by emotion, bias, their personal views or the extensive media coverage the case has attracted.

Some of the claims centred around the Cupids club in Manchester

He told the jurors: “It is essential that when you analyse the evidence and consider your verdict, that you put out of your mind any view you may have held about Mr Sheridan.”

The judge also the News Of The World was a newspaper about which some people hold strong views.

He said: “I am not aware of ever having bought or read a single copy of the News Of The World but I am not in any position whatsoever to judge its journalistic standards.”

From the articles that have been put before the court during the case, Lord Turnbull said the newspaper appeared to specialise in “human interest features”.

Again, he stressed it was vital for the jury to put their own views about the Sunday newspaper to one side and focus on the evidence.

Key questions

Lord Turnbull also told the jury that in a civil case the burden of proof was the balance of probabilities.

This is different from criminal cases where allegations have to be proved beyond reasonable doubt, he said.

The judge also said corroboration, which applies in criminal cases, does not apply in civil cases.

The jury were reminded that the four issues they had to consider were whether Mr Sheridan committed adultery, whether he was a swinger, whether he took part in orgies and whether the teetotal politician drank champagne.

Lord Turnbull said: “They are defamatory because they mean he was a hypocrite and an abuser of his position of power as a party leader.”

The jury then retired to consider its verdict.

The singer was among 33 people arrested on Thursday during a police raid on Kingston’s August Town community.

Authorities seized nine AK-47 rifles, a gun and three sniper rifles. Three men were charged with illegal possession of weapons and ammunition.

Sizzla denied knowledge of the finds and was released on Monday.

“They questioned him about violence in August Town and the guns and he denied knowledge of both,” said the dancehall star’s lawyer, Glen Cruickshank.

“They could not carry that to court.”

Second arrest

Sizzla - whose real name is Miguel Collins - has been accused of inciting gang violence between gunmen from Judgement Yard, the area of August Town where he lives, and neighbouring section Jungle 12.

Last year his home was .

His arrest is his second in three months. The 28-year-old was sentenced to 15 days in prison in December for swearing on stage, though he was allowed to remain free pending appeal.

The singer’s five-date UK tour was cancelled last November following complaints about his homophobic lyrics.

One of his most controversial songs, Pump Up, contains the Jamaican patois lyrics “Fire fi di man dem weh go ride man behind”, translated by gay rights group OutRage! as “Burn the men who have sex with men”.

It is the first ever visit by Pakistani sex workers to any red light district in India.

The BBC’s Subir Bhaumik in Calcutta says over the last decade, sex workers there have formed a powerful organisation to protect their rights.

The have improved their health standards.

They have also organised campaigns to raise awareness on preventing HIV/Aids.

The group of sex workers from the Pakistani city of Hyderabad visited Sonagachi - a sprawling red light district in north Calcutta.

“They have come to the right place because we are the most organised group of sex workers anywhere in Asia,” Swapna Gayen, who heads the Calcutta sex workers’ association, told the BBC.

Safe sex

They were briefed by local sex workers on how they have managed to combat sexually transmitted diseases and HIV.

It was to the delegation that sex workers refuse sex without a condom Majid Rani Pakistani sex worker

“It was unbelievable to the delegation that Sonagachi’s sex workers refuse sex without a condom even in the face of physical torture,” Majid Rani, who led the Pakistani team, is quoted as saying by AFP.

She said this was unthinkable in Pakistan and sex workers there would often be forced to have sex without condoms.

The visiting Pakistani women also visited a creche for the children of sex workers and a consumer cooperative.

But Ms Gayen said they were interested in brothel management and anti-Aids programmes.

Pakistan has 2,300 HIV-positive people, according to official figures.

But the World Health Organisation estimates that the figure could be closer to 80,000.