Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Monday 20 Sep 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... ‘POPE PLOT’ STREET SWEEPERS MAY SUEDetectives fear the six street cleaners arrested during the Pope’s visit over an alleged plot on his life, since released without charge, may sue for wrongful arrest. It has been reported the men were arrested after a colleague overheard a joking conversation. The Pope flew home from Birmingham yesterday, where he was bidden farewell by David Cameron. The Pope's UK visit in pictures BRITISH TROOPS LEAVE SANGINUK forces have handed control of the Afghan town Sangin to US marines after they were first sent there four years ago – supposedly for just 72 hours. At least 99 British soldiers have died there since 2006, more than anywhere else. The army said the handover was “routine” but the Times says US generals have wanted control for months. Father tried to warn US military of rogue soldiers EMBARRASSING DEFEAT FOR CLEGGDeputy PM Nick Clegg has suffered a political bloody nose at the Lib Dem conference after his party voted to boycott the Tories’ 'free schools', in defiance of their leader. Now Clegg will use his keynote speech to say the party would never have been taken seriously again if it had not entered into coalition with the Conservatives. The Mole: Clegg faces an angry mob in Liverpool TEA PARTY STAR’S PAST IN WITCHCRAFTChristine O’Donnell, the ‘Tea Party’ candidate who won the Republican nomination in Delaware, cancelled her TV appearances yesterday after a 1999 video emerged of her claiming to have “dabbled in witchcraft”. In the video, released by satirical TV host Bill Maher, O’Donnell says: "One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar.” Tea Party victor O’Donnell owns up to witchcraft UPROAR AS BRIT BECOMES MISS TEEN USAPerfect American teenagers are up in arms after a British 16-year-old, Anysha Panesar from Wales, won a beauty pageant to be named America’s Perfect Teen. Organisers say there is nothing in the rules to stop Panesar, who entered while staying at her parents’ Florida holiday home, winning. Her prize is a scholarship to train as a TV presenter. Cat bin woman charged with animal crueltyA woman who was caught on CCTV dumping a cat into a wheelie bin has been charged with causing unnecessary suffering and of not providing the animal with a suitable environment. The RSPCA took Mary Bale, 45, to court in Coventry under the Animal Welfare Act of 2006. If found guilty she faces a prison sentence and a lifetime ban from keeping animals. Video: woman caught dumping cat into bin AL MEGRAHI ‘CAN WALK’Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi is able to get out of bed and walk, more than a year after he was freed with supposedly three months to live. Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora died in the 1988 bombing, visited al-Megrahi in a Tripoli hospital last week and says he is clearly very ill. Swire still believes he is innocent. MacAskill freed Lockerbie bomber ‘in good faith’ LONDON FASHION WEEK’S NAKED SHOWIn a scene reminiscent of the story of the Emperor’s new clothes, UK-based wigmaker Charlie Le Mindu shocked un-shockable fashionistas at London fashion week yesterday by sending his models down the catwalk naked, save for wigs, hats and boots. French-born Le Mindu showed a headdress made of dead mouse carcasses last year. London fashion week in pictures CHELSEA KEEP UP 100 PER CENT RECORDChelsea remain top of the Premier League after beating Blackpool 4-0 at Stamford Bridge on Sunday. Manchester United beat Liverpool 3-2, thanks to a hat-trick from Dimitar Berbatov, and are equal with Arsenal on 11 points, but in third position because of goal difference. Arsenal were held to a 1-1 draw by Sunderland who scored their equaliser late in injury time – too late, according to a furious Wenger. Premier League review: Arsenal claim injustice after late Bent goal ‘LOST’ TIGERS DISCOVERED IN BHUTANA previously unknown population of tigers has been filmed living in the Bhutan Highlands area of the Himalayas. Conservationists are delighted by the discovery by a BBC film crew, which confirms local accounts that the tigers have taken to living at a higher altitude than is customary, 4,100m. Experts want to create a reserve around them. Tiger cub found hidden in suitcase of stuffed toys

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