Today should bring the long-awaited return to the UK of the four Britons held in Guantánamo Bay without charge or trial: they are expected to be arrested on arrival and released within four days. We'll have the story as it happens.
The British Crime Survey is out today, so Simon Jeffery Jeremy Lennard is number-crunching to tease out the headline figures.
Mark Oliver will find out how the Countryside Alliance's fares with its legal challenge to the impending total ban on hunting with dogs: he's already written a curtain-raiser.
The Guardian's diplomatic editor, Ewen MacAskill, will be writing the second of his daily Iraqi election updates in the run-up to Sunday's vote and we're keeping abreast of the growing violence that is marking the campaign.
Here on Newsblog, I'll be looking at the Bloggies (if the site comes back online today) and writing more about bloggers in Iraq.
