Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Wednesday 19 Oct 2011

1. DALE FARM EVICTION BEGINS Riot police have stormed the illegal travellers' camp at Dale Farm in Essex after a 10-year legal battle came to an end. The operation began at 7am. Two people have been Tasered and one arrested. Activists remain chained to the main gate, which bailiffs will need to gain access with heavy machinery. In pictures: the Battle of Dale Farm 2. PALESTINIANS THREATEN NEW CAPTURE The Popular Resistance Committees, the Hamas radicals who held Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit for five years, marked the prisoner swap that freed him yesterday by boasting that they would capture another soldier and "cleanse the Israeli jails of our prisoners." Israel is trading 1,027 prisoners for Shalit, 25, who reached home via Egypt. Coming home: Tuesday’s prisoner exchange in pictures 3. JULIAN BARNES FINALLY WINS THE BOOKER Julian Barnes last night won the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sense of an Ending after being shortlisted in three previous contests. He was awarded the £50,000 prize at a dinner at London’s Guildhall. Barnes, 65, the bookies’ favourite, said he was "as much relieved as delighted" to finally win. Michael Bywater: Barnes’s Booker - why do I get the sense of an ending? 4. INFLATION HITS 5.2% AND 'TIME IS RUNNING OUT' As new figures showed UK inflation hitting 5.2%, Bank of England chairman Sir Mervyn King warned yesterday that Britain was at risk from the fundamental cause of global financial crisis - debt from "unsustainably high levels of consumption" - and that "time is running out" to deal with it. The consequences threaten to "inflict pain on everyone", he said. 5. MIXED SIGNALS AS APPLE REMEMBERS JOBS Apple will stage a memorial for Steve Jobs at the amphitheatre at its California headquarters today amid mixed signals for its future. Apple declared profits of $6.6 billion, up 54%. But Wall Street last night cut 6.7% from share values because revenues are slowing and iPhone sales have fallen short. Steve Jobs: last word on a clear thinker and great man 6. THE SPY WHO LOVED THE LIB-DEM Katerina 'Katia' Zatuliveter, 26, the Russian 'spy' who is fighting deportation after being accused of seducing the married 65 year-old LibDem MP Mike Hancock on orders from the Russian Intelligence Service, told the Immigration Appeals Commission yesterday that they had had a four-year affair, but denied springing a "honeytrap". MP’s aide 'was Russia’s top spy in UK' 7. DEAL TO SAVE THE EURO IS BACK ON France and Germany said yesterday that they had agreed to create the €2 trillion rescue fund for the Eurozone which had been derided in Berlin as "a dream", and expect it to be adopted at a meeting of European officials this weekend, ahead of the G20 summit. But Moody’s credit agency cut Spain’s rating and threatened France’s. 8. NELL GWYN’S BREASTS ON VIEW AT LAST A 17th century portrait by Simon Verelst of Nell Gwyn, actress and mistress to Charles II, with her blouse open to display her nipples, is to go on show in First Actresses at the National Portrait Gallery on Thursday after disappearing for 50 years. It was discovered in private ownership and restored to remove a Victorian overlay of modesty. 9. KNUCKLE-RAP FOR PEPPER-SPRAY COP Anthony Bologna, the senior New York cop who lit the fuse for the spread of the Occupy Wall Street protests by attacking a teacher’s assistant with pepper-spray, was yesterday docked 10 days’ holiday for "violating guidelines". But the police officers’ union claims he prevented "escalation of tumultuous conduct". Video: Pepper spray cop causes outrage at Occupy Wall Street 10. HOT TICKET: POLANSKI RESTARTS A BRAWL Roman Polanski’s adaptation of Yasmina Reza's international theatre hit The God of Carnage screens tonight at the London Film Festival. Carnage skewers middle-class hypocrisy in a tale two sets of parents who meet after their sons are involved in a schoolyard brawl. Beg, borrow or steal a ticket, or wait for the cinema release in February. In pictures: the ones to watch at the London Film Festival

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