The AA's president Edmund King and Conservative MP Matthew Hancock debate government plans to allow private companies to take over the running of some major roads and motorways in England.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to bring down Northwest flight 253 over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009 with a bomb sewn into his underwear, was sentenced to multiple life sentences today in a Detroit courtroom. "The defendant has never expressed doubt or remorse about his mission," said Judge Nancy Edmunds in imposing the sentence. "To the contrary, he sees that mission as divinely inspired and a continuing mission."