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A BBC editor was hired as an expert witness to help at least 15 Somalian criminals fight deportation – including a vile offender who sexually attacked a deaf teenage girl. Last year, The Mail on Sunday exposed how Mary Harper, Africa Editor for the World Service, was paid to give expert witness evidence for Somali gang rapist Yaqub Ahmed during his five-year legal battle to stay in the UK. Now an investigation by this newspaper can reveal Ms Harper has given expert witness evidence in a string of other controversial deportation appeals by Somali offenders – including for another three...

FRANKFORT -- Larry Belcher, a retired teacher from Bullitt County, was at the Capitol last week and made a stop in the House chamber where he served two terms as a state representative and hopes to return. Belcher was not merely being nostalgic. He was part of a backdrop, one of about 30 Democratic legislators and candidates standing behind Speaker Jody Richards in the House chamber as Richards lambasted the state health insurance plan being implemented by Gov. Ernie Fletcher's administration. The plan will entail some significant cost increases for 229,000 school and state government employees, retirees and dependents. The...