Two elderly sisters who have lived together since birth today lost a last-ditch legal appeal to obtain the same inheritance tax rights as married and gay couples.

i.e. for two people to benefit, they must be gay.

With his rubbish collected only once a fortnight, Gareth Corkhill's wheelie bin was so full the lid wouldn't shut.

And for that, the father of four finds himself with a criminal record.

Magistrates convicted the 26-year-old bus driver after hearing evidence that the lid was four inches ajar, which is against rules to stop bins overflowing.

A man's life was left in tatters by a woman who falsely cried rape.Louise Ndikum spun a 10-month tissue of lies which ended with innocent Alexesi Chua having to appear in court.

Wilma Dalton, a former supply teacher, took one primary schoolgirl by the arm and out of a class for continuing to play a mouth organ despite being told to stop.

The next day she was front page news in the local paper accused of assault by the girl's parents.

The procurator fiscal took no action, but the education authority found her guilty of corporal punishment and put her on probation for six months.

Lang was found guilty of rape and jailed for four years and dismissed with disgrace from the Army.

The 22-year-old woman told the hearing in Osnabr¸ck that she had had "casual" sex with Lang twice before - once in a hotel and another time in her Army accommodation - but had no real feelings for him.

"I walked into his room and sat on his bed feeling very tired," she said. "I must have fallen asleep on my back, because I woke up to him unbuttoning my jeans.

"He began to take my top off. I kept waking up and falling asleep again. Then I woke up to find him having sex with me. I put my hands on his chest and pushed him off me. I asked him what he was doing.

"I told him he'd raped me. I was panicking and asked for my clothes. Then I went to the guardroom to tell someone what he had done."

Well. It doesn't sound like rape to me. It sounds to me as if he was doing what he thought she was expecting him to be doing. For example, notice that she did not object to her top being taken off. ...

"He began to take my top off. I kept waking up and falling asleep again."

This woman seems to be nothing other than a vindictive slut.

She slept with Lang twice before, 'but had no real feelings for him'. And, or so she claims, she had recently started a new relationship - so why the Hell is she cavorting with Lang?

And, of course, if she kept waking up without protesting while he was gradually doing things, then, in my view, she endorsed what he was doing.

This man should not be in prison.

Muslim sex offenders may be allowed to opt out of a prison treatment programme because it is against their religion.

Thus demonstrating that Muslim violence - or the threat of it - seems to pay off.

Children get label of sexual harassers

During recess at his Woodbridge, Va., school one day in November, when he was 6, he said, he smacked the classmate's bottom. The girl told the teacher. The teacher took Randy to the principal, who told him such behavior was inappropriate.

School officials wrote an incident report calling it "Sexual Touching Against Student, Offensive," which will remain on his student record permanently.

Then, as Randy sat in the principal's office, they called the police.

"I thought they were going to take me to prison," Randy said recently. "I was scared."

A sergeant major who secretly filmed teenage girls getting undressed on an Army course was starting a 12-month jail sentence last night.

An outrageous sentence, in my view.