The Daily Telegraph reports that one of the helicopters involved in the rescue of the F-15 crew member was trailing smoke as it returned to Iraqi territory but landed safely.Closer to home, the paper says Labour are “to unleash up to 12,000 shoplifters” under new laws “scrapping most prison sentences of under one year”. The paper quotes a spokesman for the justice ministry saying the the move is “part of a wider, urgent reform to ensure our prison system isn’t pushed to the brink of collapse ever again”.
