Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Friday 14 Oct 2011

published 14 October 2011

DEFENCE SECRETARY LIAM FOX RESIGNSEmbattled Defence Secretary Liam Fox resigned today, telling Prime Minister David Cameron that "the national interest must always come before my personal interests". His decision followed the revelation that his friend Adam Werrity had trips abroad paid for by a network of donors to the tune of £147,000. Fox resigns: Defence Sec jumps before he's pushed INQUIRY INTO 'HORRIFIC ABUSE OF CHILDREN'Thousands of children in England "are being horrifically abused by gangs", Deputy Children's Commissioner Sue Berelowitz claimed yesterday. She announced a two-year inquiry into the sexual exploitation - sometimes known as "grooming" - of children as young as 11. The inquiry aims to replace "anecdotal research" with "reliable data". ROONEY BANNED FOR EURO 2012 GROUP GAMES England striker Wayne Rooney was banned by the UEFA disciplinary panel yesterday for three international matches for the "assault" which led to him being sent off against Montenegro last Friday. It means England's most on-form striker will now miss all the Euro 2012 group stage games, the worst consequence for manager Fabio Capello. LETWIN DUMPS CABINET PAPERS IN PARK BINSCabinet Office Minister Oliver Letwin has been photographed throwing reportedly sensitive government documents into waste bins while strolling in St James's Park near Downing Street. According to the Daily Mirror, he made a half-hearted attempt to tear up some of the papers before ditching them but did not bother to shred others. Letwin throws confidential papers in park rubbish bin US DRONE STRIKE KILLS SENIOR HAQQANI LEADERA top commander of the Haqqani militant network, Janbaz Zadran, has been killed in a US drone strike in the Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan, a US official reported last night. Also known by the nom-de-guerre Jamil, he was said to have played a key role in recent attacks on the US Embassy and Nato in Kabul last month. TABAK JOKED OF 'BODY IN A DRAWER'Vincent Tabak, on trial for the murder of Jo Yeates, joked at a party about the police searching his flat and "opening a drawer so they could find her body", the jury in Bristol heard yesterday. Tabak admits manslaughter, but denies murder. Yeates's body was found half buried in snow on Christmas Day 2010. 'OCCUPY WALL STREET' CAMP SHOWDOWN New York is braced for violent confrontation between the police and thousands of 'Occupy Wall Street' demonstrators today as the campers in Zuccotti Park are ordered to leave so that the property company which owns it can clean up. Police said yesterday that they would remove them, and protesters said they would resist. In pictures: Occupy Wall Street MPS VOTE THEMSELVES THE RIGHT TO TWITTERMPs voted by 206 to 63 yesterday to allow the use of Twitter during Commons debates. MPs claimed variously that Twitter helped them stay in touch, that all but two European parliaments allowed it, and that being seen Tweeting was no more undignified than "snoozing". Tory MP Sir Alan Haselhurst said his opposition might earn him the "dinosaur of the year award". SCARLETT NUDE PICTURE HACKER 'ADDICTED' TO SPYINGChristopher Chaney, 35, charged with hacking nude photographs of Scarlett Johansson from her telephone and posting them on the web, yesterday told a radio station in Florida, that he had "become addicted to seeing the behind-the-scenes" lives of the famous, and apologised for invading "that tiny sliver of privacy that they do have." Man charged over Scarlett Johansson nude pictures HOT TICKET: SLEEPING BEAUTY OZ-STYLEThe UK movie openers this weekend are led by arthouse skin-flick and Cannes prize-winner Sleeping Beauty, the directorial debut for Oz novelist Julia Leigh. Will Ferrell takes a tilt at serious drama in Everything Must Go about a boozy middle-manager who loses it all, and there's yet another lukewarm remake, this time the 80s dance hit Footloose. Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty leaves critics snoring