Our friend will have with him a letter from the Indian Prime Minister to give to Mr Blair.” The “friend” was Mishra, the principal secretary to the Indian Prime Minister. SP continues: “The language and approach being taken by Madeline Albright and others in Washington in preparation for the Geneva meeting this afternoon is a cause for worry. GP and I very much hope that the Prime Minister will ask Mr Cook to persuade Mrs Albright and others in the US administration to moderate their public presentation.”On 4 June, Mrs Albright joined the other foreign ministers of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council in Geneva to issue a statement which again condemned the tests, and barred the two countries from entering their nuclear “club”. But the “big five” did not call for third-party mediation on Kashmir, as India had feared, and refrained from calling for sanctions after reported British opposition.SP encloses a memorandum analysing how India and Britain could work together to mitigate the effect of the tests.A Downing Street spokeswoman said Mr Blair was too busy to have a substantive discussion with Mishra and instead the Indian official and the Hindujas met senior Downing Street officials. Mr Blair did come into the meeting but only, she said, to be handed the letter to him from the Indian Prime Minister.

The Hindujas were present, Number 10 said, “at the request of the Indian government”.. The Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs was finally heading back to British justice last night after 38 years on the run. The Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs was finally heading back into the clutches of British justice last night, 38 years after making off with a fortune from the Glasgow-to-London mail train.A plane carrying the UK’s most famous criminal pensioner left Rio de Janeiro airport for a journey back to Britain. The private jet in The Sun’s “Operation Ron” was shown on live television leaving the runway just after 9.15pm British time. Shortly before, Biggs ­ sporting a Sun T-shirt and a beige cowboy hat ­ swept past a scrum of reporters at the airport in a van.

He was pushed in a wheelchair by two minders but managed to walk the few steps up into the aircraft. The Sun quoted Biggs, as he boarded the plane, as saying: “I’m coming home back in style with my head held high.”Accompanied on the flight by his son Mike and a doctor, Biggs is expected to arrive back in the UK this morning. He is expected to be arrested soon after touching down.The Home Office denied reports that a deal had been struck to ensure Biggs, 71, would spend only six months in prison, but opened the possibility that the Home Secretary could choose to release him on grounds of ill health. Biggs still has 28 years to serve of a 30-year sentence for his part in the robbery, which netted £2.6m, after escaping from jail in 1965.A Home Office spokesman said: “Because he’s unlawfully at large he is liable to be arrested as soon as he returns to the UK.

But there is provision under the Criminal Justice Act of 1991 for the Secretary of State to release someone on compassionate grounds.” Biggs has suffered three strokes and is reported to want to return to Britain for treatment from conventional and alternative practitioners He is said to beunable to pay for medical care in Brazil. After declaring his intention to return in an e-mail to Scotland Yard, he was issued with an emergency passport.. As wedding venues go, you would be hard-pushed to find anywhere as fashionably unorthodox as the highest-security unit in the prison system. As wedding venues go, you would be hard-pushed to find anywhere as fashionably unorthodox as the highest-security unit in the prison system.
But the vogue for originality among modern British brides would hardly extend to getting hitched to a groom as odd as Charles Bronson. Unless you were Saira Rehman, who will marry Britain’s “most dangerous prisoner” in the “Alcatraz” unit at Woodhill prison, near Milton Keynes, on her 31st birthday next month.Ten guests are to be allowed into the jail to witness the event, which will be conducted by a female registrar. Bronson has paid for the wedding cake, flowers and apple juice out of his prison savings.Ms Rehman, an interpreter and classical Bengali dancer, will wear a traditional Bengali two-piece Lenga and Cholli wedding outfit with a long veil. She met the prison hardman and serial hostage-taker for the first time only in March.As she made preparations for the wedding, Ms Rehman said: “Everybody has got their soulmate somewhere and I have found mine.