Lt Col Hugo Clark, who has served in Afghanistan and received an MBE honour in 2006, faces court action following an incident at Edinburgh Airport.

Writing in his column for The Times, Clarkson said he 'could have given a better account of myself' had he not been taking a combination of codeine and paracetamol for a recently slipped disc.

Damian Slowik was punched and choked by 21-year-old Bailey Hanlon in a broad daylight robbery in Cardiff's Bute Park. Hanlon was this week locked up but his victim feels it won't help him

“The suspect was subsequently placed on excretion observation. He excreted 90 pellets of cocaine weighing 2.019kg."