The killer of a 48-year-old teacher in 1995 is to be released from jail, the independent Parole Board have confirmed.
A stand-off an HMP Northumberland has reportedly come to an end, with inmates now returned to their cells.
A controversial ban on literary gifts to UK prison inmates is to stay according to a government minister.
A black man who has spent the last 26 years on death row after being wrongly convicted of murder by an all-white jury has been freed in Louisiana.
The UK Court of Appeal has backed the principle of whole-life prison sentences in two cases involving murderers, despite a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights that such terms should be reviewed.