Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Sunday 12 Sep 2010

published 12 September 2010

Our popular news catch-up service, which until last week ran only on Monday mornings, is now daily. You can rely on it to keep you up to date with the main news talking points... RIVAL PROTESTS AS US REMEMBERS 9/11Police in New York City kept apart hundreds of protesters for and against the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” yesterday after ceremonies marked the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Radical Dutch politician Geert Wilders addressed one group. Earlier, mayor Mike Bloomberg spoke at Ground Zero, while President Obama visited the Pentagon. Alexander Cockburn: Jones's denouncers are all hypocrites ED MILIBAND BEATS BROTHER IN POLL A new YouGov poll for the Sunday Times is a worrying upset for David Miliband, the establishment choice for Labour leader. The survey of Labour’s electoral college of party members and trade unionists shows Ed Miliband with 51 per cent of the vote to his older brother’s 49 per cent. Miliband minor’s support is strongest among the unions. The Mole: YouGov poll makes questionable assumptions BLAIR LOBBIED FOR EMPLOYER’S PHONE FIRMTony Blair used his position as the UN Middle East peace envoy to lobby Israel to grant an operating license to a West Bank mobile phone firm, Qtel, an important client of JP Morgan, the bank which retains Blair for £2m a year as a consultant. A spokesman for Blair denies he knew of any connection between JP Morgan and Qtel. Blair copied dialogue from The Queen, says writer COLEEN: I'LL TAKE WAYNE BACKColeen Rooney has told friends and family she will take her footballer husband back just a week after she found out he had allegedly slept with two prostitutes while she was pregnant with their child. The couple met to talk together for five hours yesterday, said the Mail. Rooney was free because his boss Alex Ferguson decided not to play him against Everton. Rooney absent as Everton hold Man United Coleen to take Rooney back but Coke may dump him COPPOLA JUNIOR WINS AT VENICESofia Coppola, daughter of respected director Francis Ford Coppola, has won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival for Somewhere, about a Hollywood actor whose young daughter shows him how empty his dissolute life is. Coppola thanked her father as she collected the prize from ex-boyfriend Quentin Tarantino, who chaired the jury. Tarantino, Coppola and Gallo at Venice film fest OSBORNE: SECRET PLAN TO CUT SICKNESS BENEFITSIn a confidential letter written in June and now leaked to the Observer, the Chancellor says he has agreed to cut spending on incapacity benefits (now known as ESA) by £2.5bn. Dubbed “shocking, arbitrary cuts” which “target the most vulnerable people in the country” by Labour, the plan will add to fears the coalition’s spending cuts are unfair. The Mole: Clegg in the dock over "regressive" budget CLIJSTERS BEATS ZVONAREVA TO WIN US OPENBelgium’s Kim Clijsters has successfully defended her US Open title at Flushing Meadows in New York, thrashing Russian seventh seed Vera Zvonareva in 59 minutes. Continuing the remarkable comeback she began last year after a two-and-a-half year break to start a family, a commanding Clijsters won 6-2, 6-1, breaking twice in each set. SAINSBURY DONATES £25M TO BRIT MUSEUMThe British Museum has received what’s thought to be the biggest gift to the arts since 1985 – £25m from Tory peer Lord Sainsbury. The donation will help the museum build its futuristic new extension, designed by Richard Rogers. The museum said the 82-year-old former chair of the eponymous supermarket had been “incredibly generous”. Koh-i-Noor will remain in Britain, says Cameron BURGLARS NOT GETTING MAXIMUM SENTENCESNew figures on sentencing from the Ministry of Justice have provoked victims’ rights campaigners to say courts are soft on crime. Out of 10,000 burglars convicted and sent to prison in a 12-month period, not one received the maximum sentence, the figures show. Only two of 5,000 robbers and four of 6,000 fraudsters got the harshest tariff. Sentencing: Judge Griffith-Jones and the ‘respectable’ killers MEET CLARKSON’S ORIGINAL STIG After BBC TV show Top Gear was forced to confirm the identity of its mystery racing driver, The Stig, reporters have tracked down the 47-year-old man who gave the character his name. Jerry Austen, who lives in Sydney, was Jeremy Clarkson’s ‘Stig’ (his fag) at Repton public school. A Top Gear fan, he says Clarkson treated him well. Clarkson was right about burkas and red g-strings