29 January 2003

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Sally Clark Appeal

The Appeal Court has freed the Cheshire solicitor, Sally Clark, who was serving a life sentence for murdering her two young sons. The three judges ruled that her conviction was unsafe after it emerged that medical evidence that could have cleared her was kept secret from the defence team.

We had a special report on what went wrong in the case and we examined the implications of the decision.

Iraq and State of the Union
The United Nations Security Council was meeting in closed session to discuss the UN Inspectors Report. This follows another warning from President Bush in his State of the Union speech that Saddam Hussein must disarm.

Tom Carver had the latest from New York and Gavin Esler interviewed John Bolton, Under Secretary, Arms Control & Security at the US State Department.

Click here to watch or read Gavin Esler's interview with John Bolton.

Lords
Tony Blair has indicated that he wants peers to be appointed, and not elected to the House of Lords when the chamber is reformed. We asked what was behind the Prime Minister's decision and what it meant for the long term future of the Lords.

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