Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Sunday 17 Oct 2010

Our popular news catch-up service is posted Monday to Friday at 8.0 am, and on weekends at 11.0 am. You can rely on it to keep you up to date with the main news talking points... OSBORNE TO CUT 30 PER CENT FROM JUSTICELeaked documents show chancellor George Osborne will announce this week he plans to cut 30 per cent from the justice system, closing more than 150 English courts, slashing legal aid in divorce and family law cases and reducing prison numbers. And Osborne has laid out plans to tackle benefit fraud, likening cheats to "muggers". Government spending cuts – how bad might it be? Liverpool give new owners a headacheLiverpool got the start they dreaded under their new owners NESV. In today's Merseyside derby, they were beaten 2-0 by Everton, the goals coming from Tim Cahill and Mikel Arteta. Liverpool are now 19th in the Premier League table and despite a promise from NESV to keep Roy Hodgson in place, he will do well to keep his job in the coming weeks. Premier League review: Arsenal move to second ROYAL MINT LEAK HINTS PRINCE WILLIAM TO MARRY SOONAn anonymous source has told the Daily Mail that the Royal Mint is in the early stages of manufacturing a coin to celebrate the wedding of Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton, creating a plaster mold. A palace spokesman said: "We don't know the date. I don't expect we'll be told until the last minute." FIFA OFFICIALS 'TRIED TO SELL VOTES'Two high-ranking FIFA officials offered to sell their votes in the contest to hold the 2018 World Cup, claims the Sunday Times. The newspaper says it filmed Amos Adamu, of FIFA's executive committee, asking for £500,000 for a "personal project" and Reynald Temarii, a vice-president, asking for funding for a sports academy. NUDE PHOTOS OF CHRISTINE KEELER REVEALEDAn exhibition opening in London next month includes previously unseen nude photographs by David Bailey of Christine Keeler, the call girl at the centre of the 1960s Profumo scandal. Also included are Keeler’s letters home to her parents from Holloway prison. "Don't worry I'm fine," she writes, "the people here are very nice." CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY MAY GO PRIVATECambridge University has confirmed it is drawing up plans to become a private institution, with philanthropists filling the 18 per cent funding gap currently met by the Government. The university is angry over Government plans to cap the amount it can charge in tuition fees, believing this will prevent it competing internationally. Government spending cuts – how bad might it be? MURRAY BEATS FEDERER IN SHANGHAIAndy Murray beat Roger Federer in straight sets to win the Shanghai Masters this morning. It was the Scot's second victory over Federer this autumn, having beaten him in the final of the Toronto Masters in August. Murray broke serve in the first game of the match and fired many spectacular winners to take the final 6-3, 6-2. "Andy played great," said Federer. "He had an outstanding tournament." MET POLICE WEAR SUN HILL CAST OFFSThe Met police bought almost the entire wardrobe of police drama The Bill after its final episode in March this year, it has emerged. The force paid thousands of pounds for the uniforms to stop them falling into the hands of criminals and being used to impersonate officers. Some of the kit has even been issued to new recruits. TESCO 'UNFAIRLY PLUGGING' X FACTOR HOPEFULTesco is unfairly plugging checkout lady Mary Byrne as she competes to win TV talent show X Factor – according to the mother of her rival, Katie Waissel. The supermarket chain has emailed its 300,000 employees to remind them that Byrne is taking party and screened an advert saying "We're behind Mary" during the show. Visa problems halt Gamu's X Factor second chance RWANDA'S NEW SLUMDOG MOVIEA new film which premieres tonight at the London Film Festival is being hailed as Africa’s answer to Slumdog Millionaire. Africa United tells the story of three Rwandan children who travel across the continent hoping to take part in the World Cup opening ceremony and stars two British schoolchildren born in Rwanda.

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