The defence secretary, John Reid, today defended the storming of an Iraqi jail by British troops trying to free two captured undercover British soldiers. We're putting together a graphic showing the extraordinary events, which Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy said today confirm his fears that Iraq is drifting towards civil war.
Kennedy's party is in the midst of its annual conference in Blackpool, where members are debating post office privatisation and tax. Oliver King has been talking to the party's Treasury spokesman Vince Cable, and you'll be able to read - and hear - that interview later today.
Three years after the teenager Milly Dowler was abducted and murdered, a man has been arrested in connection with the killing. In other news Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who was credited with tracking down 1,100 Nazi war criminals, died today aged 96. We'll be publishing an obituary written by veteran Guardian journalist Hella Pick.
Here on News blog Matthew Weaver is looking at the controversy surrounding Prince Charles's plans to build a block of flats at his model Poundbury village in Dorset, while Rosalind Ryan brings us the very latest on the installation by artists of a giant pink wool bunny on a hillside in Italy.
