Wikileaks founder Assange freed

Julian Assange in his prison van en route to court (14/12/10)Julian Assange, photographed inside a prison van, is fighting extradition to Sweden

Swedish authorities will be at the High Court on Thursday to try to block bail for Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks.

The 39-year-old Australian was granted bail earlier this week on condition he provides sureties of £240,000.

But he has remained in Wandsworth Prison after Swedish prosecutors appealed against giving him bail.

Mr Assange is fighting extradition to Sweden where he faces sex allegations involving two women, which he denies.

He was granted bail by District Judge Howard Riddle at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, pending extradition proceedings due to start on 11 January next year.

Conditions included the posting of a £200,000 cash deposit, with a further £40,000 guaranteed in two sureties of £20,000.

He was also told live under curfew at the home of journalist Vaughan Smith, founder of the campaigning Frontline Club.

However, the Swedish Judicial Authority has appealed against the bail decision.

The appeal is expected to be heard in Court 4 at the Royal Courts of Justice in London by Mr Justice Ouseley.

He is the judge who last week upheld bail for Shrien Dewani, whose wife was murdered on their honeymoon, following an appeal by South African authorities.

Mr Assange has received the backing of a number of high-profile supporters including human rights campaigners Jemima Khan and Bianca Jagger, and film director Ken Loach.

Mr Assange’s website has published 250,000 sensitive American diplomatic cables, details of which have appeared in the Guardian in the UK and several other newspapers around the world.

He has come under criticism in the US where former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has said he should be hunted down like the al-Qaeda leadership.

Mr Assange argues that the allegations against him are politically motivated and are designed to take attention away from the material appearing on Wikileaks.

Mr Assange is accused of having unprotected sex with a woman, identified only as Miss A, when she insisted he use a condom.

He is also accused of having unprotected sex with another woman, Miss W, while she was asleep.

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Rest of UK ‘face Scots fee rise’

Students in a lectureThere have been calls for some form of graduate contribution in Scotland
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Students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland who go to university in Scotland could face annual fees of up to £6,000, the BBC has learned.

The plan is believed to be in a Scottish government Green Paper on education funding for the future.

Scottish students studying at home currently pay no tuition fees, but the SNP administration’s paper is thought to contain plans for a graduate tax.

Other UK students currently at Scottish universities pay about £1,900 per year.

On Thursday, Scottish Education Secretary Mike Russell will publish his proposals for the future of university funding and it is expected to contain moves to charge English, Welsh and Northern Irish students three times more than anyone else in the EU.

The UK government’s move to raise tuition fees in England to as much as £9,000 a year has prompted outrage among students and violent protest.

The Scottish government aims to implement its changes in 2012, in line with the reforms in England.

Holyrood’s SNP government says the state should be the main provider for education, with access to it based on the ability to learn, not the ability to pay.

Mr Russell has previously indicated that Scottish students may face a contribution towards the cost of their degree after they graduate, and, although he is not keen on the move, he has warned that the financial outlook for universities is “grim”.

TUITION FEES AROUND THE UKScotland: Free to Scottish and EU students, £1,820 pa to other UK (£2,895 for medicine)England: Max £3,290 pa, rising to maximum £9,000 in 2012Wales and Northern Ireland: Maximum £3,290 pa

North of the border, the one-off graduate endowment fee of about £2,000 was scrapped by Scottish ministers in 2008.

The education secretary said ahead of the Green Paper’s publication that he had examined every serious idea of higher education in Scotland.

He added that everyone would have the chance over the coming weeks and months to examine the ideas proposed and make their views known.

The body representing Scotland’s university principals, Universities Scotland, is worried that, under the status quo, Scottish universities would fall behind the standards of their counterparts in England.

The organisation says higher education should be “free at the point of entry and throughout their study”, but graduates earning reasonable salaries should be asked to pay.

Poorer students

Sir Andrew Cubie – who chaired the landmark inquiry into student funding in Scotland a decade ago – has said the country’s system of university funding was unsustainable without some contribution from graduates.

NUS Scotland president Liam Burns said support for the poorest students was in “crisis”, and said he was open to options for tackling the issue – including graduate contributions as a “last resort” – as long as tuition fees remained off the table.

The Scottish Conservatives say it is “not credible” for the state to shoulder the costs of higher education, if poorer students are to be supported while raising standards and international competitiveness.

The Scottish Lib Dems, instrumental in getting tuition fees scrapped, said access must be based on the ability to learn, while Labour said the issue had to be addressed “sooner rather than later”.

This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

Three injured in garage gas blast

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Three people are being treated in hospital following an explosion at a garage in Gloucester.

The fire service said the blast was believed to have been caused by fumes from an oxyacetylene tank igniting.

Two men were taken to hospital by ambulance while a third was airlifted from the scene.

One was hit by the tank lid and two suffered flash burns. The explosion happened at the Pullman Fleet Services garage on the Kingsway Business Park.

This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

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