Liam Fox's close friend Adam Werritty has been interviewed by officials looking into allegations surrounding links between them.
Sources close to the inquiry said a conversation between Mr Werritty and Cabinet Office officials has taken place at an undisclosed location away from Whitehall.
Dr Fox apologised to Parliament on Monday for allowing lines between his personal and ministerial life to become "blurred" after it emerged that he met Mr Werritty 40 times over the past 18 months in the Ministry of Defence and during visits abroad.
Prime Minister David Cameron said the Defence Secretary had made "serious mistakes" and asked the UK's top civil servant, Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell, to join an inquiry into their links.
Dr Fox's political career may depend on whether the inquiry finds that Mr Werritty benefited financially from their links. Questions were mounting over Mr Werritty's financial affairs, as The Times reported that his three known consultancies have earned him little more than £20,000 in four years.
In the Commons, Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman demanded to know why the investigation into Dr Fox's links with Mr Werritty was not being carried out by independent adviser on ministerial standards, Sir Philip Mawer.
Speaking at Deputy Prime Minister's Questions, she told Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg: "You have always lectured us on high standards in public office, but while the Defence Secretary by his own admission has fallen short of those standards the Government has failed to refer him to the independent adviser on ministers' interests, Sir Philip Mawer."
Ms Harman added:"Doesn't this show that they are prepared to sacrifice high standards in public office to protect the Secretary of State?". She then went on: "There is clearly a need for investigation, not least into whether Mr Werritty profited by his association with the Secretary of State. This goes to the heart of trust in government."
Mr Clegg told her: "The Cabinet Secretary is looking into this, as requested by you and your party until you changed your tune just a day or two ago. He is doing that report and until we have got that report, and until that report has been delivered to the Prime Minister, I think there's no point trying to provide a running commentary on a series of facts which aren't yet revealed in that report."
Mr Clegg said Sir Gus should be allowed to complete his work "so that the full facts can be made available to the Prime Minister and then decisions can be made".
Liam Fox's close friend Adam Werritty has been interviewed by officials looking into allegations surrounding links between them.
Sources close to the inquiry said a conversation between Mr Werritty and Cabinet Office officials has taken place at an undisclosed location away from Whitehall.
Dr Fox apologised to Parliament on Monday for allowing lines between his personal and ministerial life to become "blurred" after it emerged that he met Mr Werritty 40 times over the past 18 months in the Ministry of Defence and during visits abroad.
Prime Minister David Cameron said the Defence Secretary had made "serious mistakes" and asked the UK's top civil servant, Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell, to join an inquiry into their links.
Dr Fox's political career may depend on whether the inquiry finds that Mr Werritty benefited financially from their links. Questions were mounting over Mr Werritty's financial affairs, as The Times reported that his three known consultancies have earned him little more than £20,000 in four years.
In the Commons, Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman demanded to know why the investigation into Dr Fox's links with Mr Werritty was not being carried out by independent adviser on ministerial standards, Sir Philip Mawer.
Speaking at Deputy Prime Minister's Questions, she told Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg: "You have always lectured us on high standards in public office, but while the Defence Secretary by his own admission has fallen short of those standards the Government has failed to refer him to the independent adviser on ministers' interests, Sir Philip Mawer."
Ms Harman added:"Doesn't this show that they are prepared to sacrifice high standards in public office to protect the Secretary of State?". She then went on: "There is clearly a need for investigation, not least into whether Mr Werritty profited by his association with the Secretary of State. This goes to the heart of trust in government."
Mr Clegg told her: "The Cabinet Secretary is looking into this, as requested by you and your party until you changed your tune just a day or two ago. He is doing that report and until we have got that report, and until that report has been delivered to the Prime Minister, I think there's no point trying to provide a running commentary on a series of facts which aren't yet revealed in that report."
Mr Clegg said Sir Gus should be allowed to complete his work "so that the full facts can be made available to the Prime Minister and then decisions can be made".
A leading think-tank has warned the economic recovery in the UK is the weakest of any since the end of the First World War.
The warning came as the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said its monthly estimates suggest gross domestic product (GDP) grew at 0.5% in the three months to September, compared to a revised 0.4% in the quarter to August.
NIESR said the level of GDP in the period is still 4% below the pre-recession peak - suggesting the recovery is the weakest since 1918.
The figures for the third quarter may surprise some economists who have forecast near stagnant growth between July and September.
The figures come amid deepening fears over the health of the country's recovery and after the Bank of England announced plans to pump an extra £75 billion in to the economy to stimulate growth.
If NIESR's estimate is correct, the third quarter growth of 0.5 recorded between April and June. The third-quarter GDP figure will be confirmed by the Office for National Statistics on November 1.
The think-tank still warned growth had been "anaemic" in the UK over the last year.
A Treasury spokesman said the figures supported the Government's case for its deficit-busting austerity measures.
He said: "These figures show that, while the UK cannot isolate itself from what is happening to our major trading partners, the action being taken by the Government to tackle the deficit and rebalance the economy is helping the UK economy to continue to grow.
"Other data published today similarly shows that the economy is recovering but that the financial turbulence in the Eurozone and the weaker outlook for global growth will mean that the recovery will be choppy."
The "forest boy" of Berlin is refusing to have his photograph released despite investigators being flooded with calls from all over the world from people saying they are related to him.
Ray, 17, who speaks fluent English, arrived in the city on September 5 claiming to have walked for two weeks.
He told officials he had lived in the woods with his father for the previous five years - but set off alone after his father died in a fall and he buried him.
The mystery resulted in Berlin police sending Ray's fingerprints and photograph to foreign police forces in a bid to identify him. Detectives also called upon Interpol, the world's largest police organisation, to help.
But so far there have been no significant leads, police said today. And Ray, who is being looked after by a legally-appointed guardian, is refusing to have his photograph released publicly.
"There are of course many questions," said Berlin police spokeswoman Miriam Tauchmann. "At the moment he doesn't want us to put a picture of him in the public because he wants to live like a normal teenager and we have to respect that."
Investigators have little of promise to go on despite Ray's story attracting global interest. "Many people have called to say they have information about Ray, people saying he's their son or people calling saying they're his grandparents," the spokeswoman said.
"We have had phone calls from all over the world, I couldn't tell you them all, but from Europe, America, from every country we are getting information. We have no good information from the phone calls to say this is a good direction (to pursue)".
Officers have not yet taken a DNA sample from Ray and say even if they had, there would not necessarily be anything to compare it with. Police are also sceptical about the teenager's story, which gives them little to go on.
It had been reported that Ray told police his mother, Doreen, had died years earlier in a car crash - but that officials found no one of that name dying in a crash. The spokeswoman said Ray did not know where the car crash was.
British forces freed an Italian cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates after retrieving a message in a bottle tossed by hostages from a porthole.
The message inside confirmed that the crew was safely sealed inside an armoured area.
All 23 crew members of the Montecristo cargo ship were brought to safety and the 11 pirates arrested.
The crew, seven Italians, six Ukrainians and 10 Indians, locked themselves inside an armoured area of the vessel when the pirates boarded the ship, Italian Defence Minister Ignazio La Russa said. Safe from the pirates' threats, the crew continued to navigate the ship.
"The criminals managed to cut off all means of communication, but the 'prisoners' tossed a bottle with a message through a porthole explaining the situation," Mr La Russa told a news conference.
At that point, other ships in the area were aware that the Italian vessel had been boarded by pirates. But the message in the bottle gave an important signal the crew of the Italian ship were out of harm's way and that a rescue operation could be launched without risking injury.
"Rubber boats circled the Montecristo, while a helicopter hovered above. The pirates surrendered right away, some throwing their weapons in the sea, and were arrested," he said.
The pirates attacked the ship on Monday 620 miles off Somalia as the crew was hauling scrap iron to Vietnam on a journey that had begun on September 20 in Liverpool.
The operation was carried out by two ships - one Royal Navy and one American.
Britain's Defence Ministry said the RFA Fort Victoria "responded to calls to assist a pirated Italian merchant ship, the MV Montecristo, along with an American Navy frigate." Because of the presence of warships, the pirates on board surrendered without force, it said.
Agents of the Iranian government have been accused of being involved in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States, with help from a purported member of a Mexican drug cartel.
Two people, including a member of Iran's special operations unit known as the Quds Force, were charged in New York federal court.
US attorney general Eric Holder said the US would hold Iran accountable. He said the bomb plot was a flagrant violation of US and international law.
"We will not let other countries use our soil as their battleground," Preet Bharara, the US attorney in Manhattan, said at a news conference in Washington with Mr Holder and FBI director Robert Mueller.
Manssor Arbabsiar, a 56-year-old US citizen who also holds an Iranian passport, was charged with Gholam Shakuri, whom authorities said was a Quds Force member.
Mr Mueller says many lives could have been lost in the plot to kill the ambassador with bombs in the US. Mr Holder said the US government would be taking unspecified action against the Iranian government.
Asked whether the plot was blessed by the top echelons of the Iranian government, Mr Holder said the Justice Department was not making that accusation.
Arbabsiar unknowingly hired an informant from the Drug Enforcement Administration to carry out the plot, prosecutors said. Shakuri remains at large but Arbabsiar was arrested at New York's John F Kennedy International Airport. Prosecutors said Arbabsiar has confessed to his participation in the murder plot.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Treasury Department would soon put more people under sanctions. She also predicted the plot would further isolate Iran.
Iran rejected the US claims, with IRNA, the official Iranian news agency, calling the accusations "America's new propaganda scenario" against the Tehran government. Alizreza Miryusefi, the press attache at Iran's mission to the United Nations, said the accusation was "totally baseless".
The widow of murdered Northern Ireland solicitor Pat Finucane has said she feels "angry" and "insulted" after David Cameron told her he is proposing a QC-led review of her husband's case.
After meeting the Prime Minister in Number 10, Geraldine Finucane told reporters the whole family is "very disappointed" and will not support the initiative.
The Finucanes want a full independent inquiry into the loyalist shooting in 1989. There have been persistent claims of security force collusion with the killers.
Speaking in Downing Street, Mrs Finucane said: "I am so angry and so insulted by being brought to Downing Street to hear what the Prime Minister had on offer.
"He is offering a review. He wants a QC to read the papers in my husband's case and that is how he expects to reach the truth. All of us are very upset and very disappointed."
She added that she was "so angry with the Prime Minister that I actually called a halt to the meeting".
Mrs Finucane said she could not understand how "yet another review of papers" could be justified. "The family will not be involved at all. The QC will tell us everything and we are to accept that as a means of getting to the truth," she added.
Tony Blair promised the family that the allegations would be investigated but no inquiry was set up, while retired Canadian judge Peter Cory, asked by the British and Irish governments to examine allegations of collusion surrounding the Finucane and other controversial killings, recommended a public inquiry into the death.
Downing Street said Mr Cameron told the Finucanes that investigations by Judge Cory and John Stevens, then deputy chief constable of Cambridgeshire Police, demonstrated there had been state collusion in the murder.
A spokeswoman said: "He (Mr Cameron) accepted these conclusions and on behalf of the Government he apologised to the family. He confirmed that the Government's priority was to get to the truth in the best and most effective way. The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland will set out the details of this process shortly."
The Government is fighting tooth-and-nail to get its flagship reforms of the NHS in England through the House of Lords, in the face of a delaying move which ministers fear could put the whole project at risk.
Peers will vote on Wednesday on an amendment from crossbenchers Lord (David) Owen and Lord (Peter) Hennessy to refer the Health and Social Care Bill to a special committee, potentially delaying further progress through Parliament until next February.
Health minister Earl Howe warned that the move poses "an unacceptable risk to the passage of this Bill and hence the Government's programme for the health service".
With Wednesday's vote expected to be on a knife-edge, an instant petition launched by the 38 Degrees lobby group raised more than 80,000 signatures in less than a day urging peers to back the Owen plan.
And more than 60 leading medical professionals called in a letter for the reforms to be substantially rewritten or scrapped altogether. Supported by a string of celebrities including fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood and comedian Russell Brand, they warned that the British public still do not support the plans.
A survey of 1,890 psychiatrists found that only one in 10 believes the Bill will lead to better patient care.
The poll, for the Royal College of Psychiatrists, also revealed that 84% believe the College should call for the Bill to be withdrawn.
College president Professor Sue Bailey described the findings as "extremely worrying", adding: "History tells us that in times of economic restraint, when combined with major reform, those with mental health problems fare the worst."
But Lord Howe defended the proposed changes, insisting they would "liberate the NHS" and improve patient care in England.
He told peers that the Bill is "of profound importance" for the quality and delivery of healthcare for patients, who currently get a "poor deal".
A post-mortem examination into the death of law firm accounts manager Sally Hodkin has confirmed she died after suffering knife wounds to her neck.
The victim was believed to be on her way to work on Monday morning when she was attacked in a busy shopping street in Bexleyheath, south east London.
A woman accused of her murder had been due to appear in court on Tuesday but was unable to because of "extreme" mental health problems.
Unemployed Nicola Edgington, 31, of Ambedkar House, Flavell Mews, Greenwich, south east London, was also charged with the attempted murder of 23-year-old Kerry Clark, who was attacked with a knife as she waited at a bus stop.
A psychiatrist said Edgington was unfit to be taken into the courtroom to face charges.
Addressing Greenwich Magistrates' Court, Dr Amit Chatterjee said: "I had the opportunity to meet her this morning. She does have extreme mental health problems. I don't think she is fit to attend court in her mental state."
A Serco security guard summoned to describe Edgington's condition said the woman was "agitated".
Lisa Moriarty told the court: "At the moment she is in a cell with three officers but I am a bit reluctant to bring her up with everyone around. She seems to be very agitated with people in the cells, she's getting very agitated and uppity."
Edgington, who was represented by her solicitor, Callum Haddow, was told her case will be heard next at the Old Bailey on Thursday when a bail application is due to take place. A plea and case management hearing was scheduled for January 17.
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, which provides mental health services in a number of south east London boroughs, said Edgington had unexpectedly left an assessment suite while a bed was being prepared for her at 7am on Monday.
The long-term future of the Olympic Stadium remained unclear after it was confirmed that the deal with West Ham United and Newham Council had collapsed.
Sports minister Hugh Robertson said it was better to stop the current arrangement "dead in its tracks" rather than let it remain "bogged down in legal paralysis" as court challenges to the previous plans loomed.
Former London mayor Ken Livingstone described the situation as a "fiasco" and called for swift action to resolve it.
Legal challenges by Tottenham Hotspur and Leyton Orient, plus an anonymous complaint to the European Commission, had led to fears that court action could drag on for years while the stadium remained empty. It will now remain in public ownership and be leased out to an anchor tenant following a new tender process by the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC).
West Ham vice-chairman Karren Brady confirmed the club would bid to become a tenant. The collapse of the deal for West Ham to buy the stadium has left a funding gap of up to £60 million needed to transform it so it can be leased out.
The plan would have seen the £95 million cost split, with £35 million from the Olympics budget, £20 million from West Ham and £40 million from Newham Council. If similar changes are to be made then only the £35 million is guaranteed and a gap of £60 million will have to be filled.
The biggest problem concerned the complaint to the Commission that the £40 million from Newham was effectively "state aid" and therefore broke competition rules.
The minister said the public ownership of the stadium would allow Newham to commit that money - though it has yet to say it will do so - and any gap would be covered by rental income.
Prospective tenants will be asked to bid for the stadium, with the running track remaining in place. It is understood that no contract has been signed with West Ham, allowing the move to a fresh tender process, but the club will be encouraged to bid again.
A joint statement by Ms Brady and Newham chief executive Kim Bromley-Derry said they welcomed the move to end uncertainty "and allow a football and athletics stadium to be in place by 2014 under a new process".
Britain has pledged backing for US reprisals against Iran following an apparent assassination plot in Washington.
Downing Street said Tehran should be "held accountable" amid allegations that government factions were involved in a plan to kill the Saudi ambassador.
The American authorities announced that two Iranian nationals had been charged with offences including conspiracy to murder a foreign official.
Manssor Arbabsiar, who is in custody in New York, and his alleged co-conspirator Gholam Shakuri, who is said to be in Iran, are believed to have been targeting a restaurant frequented by ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir.
The plot was apparently uncovered by a US agent posing as part of a Mexican drugs cartel, who was enrolled by the suspects to help.
US attorney general Eric Holder told a press conference: "The criminal complaint unsealed today exposes a deadly plot directed by factions of the Iranian government to assassinate a foreign ambassador on US soil with explosives. Through the diligent and co-ordinated efforts of our law enforcement and intelligence agencies, we were able to disrupt this plot before anyone was harmed."
Secretary of state Hillary Clinton said the US was preparing new penalties against Iran, including financial sanctions against individuals.
A Downing Street spokesman said: "We congratulate the US authorities on the successful operation to disrupt a conspiracy to attack diplomats in the United States.
"Indications that this plot was directed by elements of the Iranian regime are shocking. Directing an attack against another country is a flagrant violation of international law which calls for the strongest condemnation. The United Kingdom is in close touch with the US authorities on this case. We will support measures to hold Iran accountable for its actions."
Tehran has reportedly dismissed the allegations, with a spokesman for president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad branding them a "fabrication".
Britain's gang problem is in its "gestation" period and can be stopped before it takes a "multi-generational hold", US "supercop" Bill Bratton has said.
Mr Bratton, who is visiting Britain to share his experiences tackling gangs in New York and Los Angeles, said the issue would be easier to tackle in the UK because it does not span several generations.
Speaking after he delivered a lecture at the London School of Economics (LSE), Mr Bratton said: "It's easier to stop because you are not dealing with a multi-generational problem like we had in the United States where we had grandfathers and grandsons in the same gang."
He continued: "Latino gangs, particularly the Mexican gangs, first began in Los Angeles in the 1940s. The black gangs, the Crips and the Bloods that the gangs try to emulate by watching too much TV, watching The Wire and some of the other things out there, they began in the 1960s in my country."
Mr Bratton has met police chiefs in Manchester and London to discuss the issue of gangs, and will also visit Birmingham, before attending a conference on the subject on Thursday. He also spoke on the issue to MPs on the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, and in his lecture echoed his views that you could not "arrest your way out of the problem".
Mr Bratton, who works as a security consultant, said "collaboration" was key to solving the problem, requiring police to work with Government at a local and national level.
After the lecture at LSE, entitled A More Secure World - From Neighbourhood to Globe, he said the gang situation in the UK was different to that faced by the US.
"The briefings I am getting is that up in Manchester their gang issue is about a generation old, when they first began to identify themselves as gangs and take up some of the structure and activities of US gangs.
"So before they take a multi-generational hold it's like weeding the garden, they are going to be easier to combat before they mature. So the importance of the effort that is being made at this juncture cannot be underestimated.
"In dealing with crime the idea is to prevent as much as you can so if you can find alternatives to prevent kids from getting into gangs you can prevent their growth but you can also focus on preventing their violence."
The Government was accused of putting the rights of criminals ahead of protecting the public as its civil liberties measures cleared the Commons.
The Protection of Freedoms Bill, which cuts back the size of the DNA database and reforms the child protection regime, received its third reading by 320 votes to 227, majority 93.
As the Bill completed its passage through the Commons, Home Secretary Theresa May announced that high-risk criminals not currently on the DNA database would be tracked down and added to it.
She said: "This Government is determined to cut crime and reduce the risk of terrorism at the same time as we restore the freedoms and the liberties that define British society."
But shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper condemned changes to the DNA database, which cut the period for which DNA profiles of those who are arrested or charged, but not convicted, are held from six to three years.
She said every year some crimes would be committed by 23,000 people who would have been on the database under Labour. She told Mrs May: "That's 23,000 criminals each year, cases where you want to make it harder for the police to bring them to justice."
There were 17,000 rape suspects "who will be taken off the database straight away as a result of these measures". She also claimed the changes to the "vetting and barring" regime were "creating serious loopholes in child protection."
She told Mrs May: "It is not the Human Rights Act that is putting privacy for child sex offenders ahead of sensible child protection measures. It is not the Human Rights Act that is putting the privacy of rape suspects above action to prevent rape in the future. It is this Government."
But Mrs May gave a staunch defence of the Bill, arguing that Labour had "chipped away" at civil liberties during their 13 years in power. On DNA, she said all convicted prisoners, including hundreds of murderers and rapists, were having samples taken "something that the last Government failed to do".
The legislation now goes to the House of Lords for further scrutiny.
Oil company BP has outlined its contingency plans as it prepares to start drilling off the coast of Shetland.
The firm had planned to start drilling in the North Uist area, around 80 miles north-west of Shetland, last year, but the launch date was postponed following the Deepwater Horizon leak. BP plans to start drilling next year, once it has received approval.
In April 2010 an explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon rig killed 11 workers and left 4.9 million barrels of oil pumping into the Gulf of Mexico, where it hit wildlife, coasts and fisheries.
It is understood one of the worst case scenarios outlined in documents submitted to the UK Government for the new well, which would start 1,300 metres below the sea's surface in the North Uist area, was a leak of 75,000 barrels a day.
Oil companies have to submit plans to the Government ahead of drilling.
A spokesman for BP said: "As part of our North Sea exploration programme, BP is planning to explore the North Uist prospect in the deep water West of Shetland in the first quarter of 2012. BP has been exploring successfully West of Shetland since the 1970s and producing there safely for over 15 years.
"BP will be using the 'state-of-the-art' Stena Carron drillship, which has experience of deepwater drilling West of Shetland. Key lessons from the Deepwater Horizon incident have been incorporated into the overall planning for this well.
"All drilling activity is subject to regulatory approval. BP is working closely with the UK regulator to provide the necessary assurance regarding preparations for this well.
"The well was originally planned for late 2010 but was delayed approx one year due to a desire to fully incorporate the lessons from the Deepwater Horizon incident."
The Government is launching work academies offering training and a guaranteed job interview to up to 50,000 people ahead of new figures set to show another rise in youth unemployment.
Some commentators believe the number of 16 to 24-year-olds out of work will top the one million mark when official data from the Office for National Statistics is released on Wednesday.
There were 973,000 unemployed people in the age group last month, a jobless rate of over 20%, leading to calls from unions and campaign groups for Government action.
Employment Minister Chris Grayling said that coupled with the Work Programme and the Work Experience scheme, the new work academies will support up to 150,000 young people over the next few months and 250,000 over the next two years.
Industries covered by the work academies include construction, hospitality, logistics, retail and contact centres, where the Government said there were tens of thousands of job vacancies.
Mr Grayling said: "Sector-based work academies are the next key part of our strategy to tackle youth unemployment. With training, work experience and a guaranteed interview, they will put people at the front of the queue for vacancies that employers are looking to fill."
But the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO) Commission on Youth Unemployment, chaired by Labour MP David Miliband, said the latest jobless figures would be a "wake up call" about the future of young people.
Mr Miliband said: "Youth unemployment scars people for life, particularly if it is prolonged, and at today's levels it will be costing the country millions of pounds a week. Our aim is to understand the problems we face, arrive at the right solutions, and then act. We must not let the scourge of unemployment leave a permanent mark on the hundreds of thousands of young people living through it today."
Howard Archer, chief UK & European economist at IHS Global Insight, said claimant count unemployment is forecast to have risen by 30,000 in September after rises of 20,300 in August and 33,700 in July, which would be a seventh successive increase and take the number of claimant count unemployed up to a 22-month high of more than 1.6 million.
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: "Now is certainly not the time to be young and looking for work. There is every chance that the Chancellor's austerity measures will be responsible for pushing joblessness amongst those under the age of 24 into the seven-figure bracket."
Jurors trying the neighbour accused of murdering Joanna Yeates are to set foot inside her flat.
After inspecting the scene of her death, they visit the verge where her body was found on Christmas Day.
Mr Justice Field told jurors they will arrive as normal at court before being taken by coach on a tour to various significant sites.
Miss Yeates suffered 43 injuries after being attacked by Vincent Tabak inside the flat in Clifton, Bristol, the jury was told. Miss Yeates, 25, was said to have suffered a slow and painful death as she was strangled by the "cold and calculated" killer.
Tabak's QC William Clegg asked the jury to consider four areas closely during the visit. Mr Clegg said he wanted jurors to consider the time and distance it would take to walk from the Hophouse public house to Miss Yeates's home. He also asked them to consider carefully the view from the kitchen window inside her flat.
"It is that view from that kitchen that you have of somebody walking past outside because the kitchen is set below ground level," Mr Clegg said. "It is important because the defence case is view from that window, is where the two people - Joanna Yeates and Vincent Tabak - first saw each other that night before the events that led up to her death."
Mr Clegg also asked the jury to cross over Canynge Road to No 53 and stand by the front door. "We would like you to go there and have in mind, having already been to No 44, whether in your judgment you think it possible that the scream that was made inside the flat of No 44 could possibly be heard if you are standing outside No 53?," he said. "The defence are going to suggest that it was by no means certain that the scream that was heard was connected to this event at all because of the distance involved."
Finally, Mr Clegg asked jurors to walk the short distance to Percival Court, which is adjacent to the rear of Miss Yeates's flat at 44 Canynge Road.
Prosecutors claim Tabak, 33, kept his crime secret for more than six weeks before confessing to a prison chaplain.
Dutch engineer Tabak admits manslaughter but denies murder at Bristol Crown Court.
Vitamin E can significantly increase the risk of men developing prostate cancer, a major study has shown.
The finding prompted a warning to men to be wary of vitamins and other health supplements.
Researchers made the discovery after attempting to confirm earlier reports that vitamin E and the mineral selenium could help prevent prostate cancer.
Instead they found that, in the case of vitamin E, the opposite was true.
Over several years of follow-up studies it became clear that vitamin E in moderate doses raised the risk of prostate cancer by more than would be expected by chance.
Compared with a "dummy" placebo, taking 400 international units (IU) of the vitamin a day increased the rate of prostate cancer detection by 17%.
The harmful effects appeared to continue long after men stopped taking the supplement, the study showed.
The findings were reported by US researchers led by Dr Eric Klein from the Cleveland Clinic in Chicago.
Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, they said: "Given that more than 50% of individuals 60 years or older are taking supplements containing vitamin E, and that 23% of them are taking at least 400 IU/d despite a recommended dietary allowance of only 22.4 IU for adult men, the implications of our observations are substantial."
They added: "The lack of benefit from dietary supplementation with vitamin E or other agents with respect to preventing common health conditions and cancers or improving overall survival, and their potential harm, underscore the need for consumers to be sceptical of health claims of unregulated over-the-counter products in the absence of strong evidence of benefit demonstrated in clinical trials."
George Osborne is facing fresh pressure for action to revive the UK economy amid renewed fears over prospects in the eurozone.
Plans for expanding a key bailout fund for the single currency area were thrown into disarray on Tuesday night by a rejection from the Slovakian parliament.
The enhanced European Financial Stability Fund - designed to shore up heavily indebted states such as Greece - cannot be implemented until it has been passed by all members. European leaders now hope Slovakia will approve the move later this week, even though the country's coalition government has collapsed.
With problems in Britain's biggest trading area showing no signs of abating and stock markets braced for another rough ride, Labour will up its attack on the Chancellor by forcing a Commons vote on domestic action to stimulate growth.
Ed Miliband's newly-reshuffled top team will use an Opposition Day debate to accuse the Government of "choking off" the recovery.
The showdown comes after a leading think-tank suggested the UK was making the slowest comeback from recession since the end of the First World War.
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) estimated that GDP grew at 0.5% in the three months to September, compared with 0.4% the previous quarter. However, it said the economy was still 4% below the pre-recession peak.
The freshly-installed shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Rachel Reeves, said: "With families feeling the squeeze, no growth in our economy since last autumn and unemployment rising again, it's clear that Britain now faces a real jobs and growth crisis.
"Tax rises and spending cuts that go too far and too fast have crushed confidence and choked off the British recovery well before the eurozone crisis of recent months."
Labour will urge the coalition to use its "Plan B", which includes temporarily reversing the VAT rise, taxing bank bonuses to fund jobs for young people, and bringing forward state infrastructure projects.
Liam Fox has denied he had anything to hide amid claims journalists were misled about the circumstances of a burglary at his home.
As allegations concerning his links to lobbyist Adam Werritty continued to swirl, the Defence Secretary confirmed reports that a friend had been staying at his London property when thieves broke in during the general election campaign.
But he stressed it was not Mr Werritty - and said he was not sure why the media had been given the impression he was alone.
"As I told the police at the time, a friend was staying in the guest room," Dr Fox said in a statement. "My wife was stranded in Hong Kong due to the ash cloud. For the sake of clarity, it wasn't Adam Werritty. I was a victim of a violent crime and I'm appalled at being portrayed as having something to hide. We're trying to establish why the media were given the impression I was alone."
The development came with the storm engulfing Dr Fox showing little sign of abating. A series of new claims surfaced overnight, including The Sun revisiting the April 2010 theft at his home.
Channel 4 News said Sri Lankan officials told them Mr Werritty offered to help them to buy arms during a trip with the Cabinet minister. And the Guardian reported that the 33-year-old described his position as "office of Dr Liam Fox" when he booked into a Dubai Hotel earlier this year.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mail raised the issue of the Defence Secretary tagging short personal breaks where he was accompanied by Mr Werritty on to taxpayer-funded official visits.
David Cameron is certain to be grilled about inconsistencies in the official version of links between the two men at Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons later.
Dr Fox has apologised to Parliament for allowing lines between his personal and ministerial life to become "blurred". Mr Werritty was the best man at the MP's wedding, styled himself on business cards as an "adviser", and attended high-level meetings. However, Dr Fox has insisted there was no financial benefit from the relationship.
The Defence Secretary has so far received strong support from colleagues, especially on the Tory right. However, senior backbencher Patrick Mercer, a former Army officer, warned that MoD staff needed to be able to get on with running campaigns in Afghanistan and Libya without having to worry about "non-defence issues".
Income tax rates must be cut to attract more highly skilled workers to the UK and help avert a looming pensions crisis, a think-tank has warned.
The free market Adam Smith Institute (ASI) said the Government must do more to ensure the country can meet the soaring costs of its rapidly ageing population.
Research shows that Britain only takes in slightly more highly skilled workers than it loses in emigration, the think-tank said.
It also cited Office for National Statistics figures which apparently show that the proportion of people not in work is set to increase by 75% over the next 40 years.
To boost the economy and prevent a "brain drain", it argued, tax rates should be cut - including scrapping the 50p top rate for the highest-earners - and immigration rules overhauled.
It suggests allowing people into the UK but - beyond the Government's chosen limit for immigration - without being eligible for benefits for the first few years.
Sam Bowman, the ASI's head of research, said: "Of the things that highly skilled migrants consider when deciding where to move, the tax burden is the only one the Government can influence.
"If Britain is to keep its competitive edge, it needs to cultivate policies that attract the best workers from around the world and keep more Britons at home. That means cutting income taxes - not just the 50p rate, but the 40p and 20p rates as well."
Plans to modernise Europe's farm policy have been dismissed by the Government as a lost opportunity to cut costs and wean farmers off hefty subsidies which keep the sector afloat.
European Commission proposals are designed to deliver a more environmentally-friendly Common Agricultural Policy and make the sector more competitive on world markets.
But hefty subsidies to European farmers continue, albeit with an upper limit of 300,000 euros (£260,000) a year - something which affects only a fraction of landowners. And they, argue UK officials, will simply divide up their farming businesses - at least on paper - so as to continue qualifying for more.
Meanwhile, plans to "green" the CAP mean little change in member states where environmental policies to improve the rural environment are already routine, according to UK officials.
Under the commission plan, 30% of current direct payments to farmers will be conditional on taking steps including leaving seven-10% of land "set-aside" without crops on it, ensuring arable farms grow at least three crops and ensuring permanent pasture is maintained.
A commission statement said the aim was to "enhance the sustainable management of natural resources across the whole of the EU". Farming had to become more competitive at local regional, national, European, and world level, while addressing environmental problems concerning water, soil, biodiversity and climate change".
The launch of the plan for the post-2013 CAP triggers months of negotiations in which the UK will support moves away from direct payments - subsidies - and more focus on environmental improvements and a more competitive EU agriculture sector.
But ministers also want a significant reduction in the CAP's share of all EU spending - currently about 40%. The policy is estimated to cost every person in the UK £107 a year in taxes to pay for farm subsidies and increased food costs.
The proposals would reduce the CAP's EU budget share to about 37.5%, but it would still be the most expensive policy area.
Friends of the Earth said the proposals amounted to continued support for factory farming and subsidised food exports, with a detrimental impact on the environment and on food security;
