* London Mayor Ken Livingstone backs down for the moment after rejecting nine nominees to London’s fire authority because they were too white and too male. He probably thinks female Somali asylum seekers would make better candidates.(BBCNews)
* Tony Blair tells Parliament he regrets the early release of 25,000 prisoners because of prison overcrowding. Everybody else regrets he didn’t get off his arse when he came to power 10 years ago and build some more prisons.(EveningStandard)
* Long queues predicted at UK airports as new passport checks come in.(Metro)
* Father of kidnapped toddler Madelaine McCann has his wallet pickpocketed at Waterloo Station after arriving for a visit back to the UK.(DailyMail)
* The Glastonbury Festival’s here and so is the rain and mud.(TheTimes)
* ‘Ex-Muslims’ to launch group in London on Thursday.(Mirror)
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