Steve Kean was forced to defend the relationship between his wife Margaret and Venky's owner Anuradha Desai on another extraordinary day in Blackburn Rovers' disastrous season.

Manager brushes off MP claim and email furore to say Indian owners are right for relegated club

Steve Kean, the Blackburn manager, has dismissed claims that a Rovers fan broke into the club's training ground this week and attempted to confront him as "laughable".

Support for the far right in the French presidential election – and here in Britain – is more about disillusion than dogma

Rachida (not her real name) was playing badminton in a Blackburn sports centre when I asked her if she'd talk to me about politics. I was making a Beyond Westminster programme for Radio 4 about how British Asian voters were deserting the three main parties. This young woman was initially very reluctant to contribute, and when she saw a middle-aged, male Labour councillor from her community trying to eavesdrop, she begged me to send him away.

Youngster's displays in first full season have typified Rovers' spirit. By Tom Watt

Jason Lowe's displays in his first full season have typified Blackburn's dogged battle against a drop that seemed inevitable at Christmas. Tom Watt meets him

The UK's remotest dependency is poised to enter a brave new world of private enterprise. But the transition is proving painful

Midfielder tells David Fearnhead about his hero and how Rovers plan to beat the drop

I do hope someone kept the Wanted poster. At the beginning of Rights Gone Wrong – a rapid-response documentary about the controversial nature of some recent rulings from the European Court of Human Rights – Andrew Neil illustrated some of the wilder stories that had made it into the papers, including the suggestions that a kitten had prevented a criminal's deportation and that a police force hadn't publicised a suspect's picture for fear of breaching his human rights. Cue a mocked-up Police Appeal for Assistance bearing the features of the Daily Politics presenter, a man who has repeatedly breached his own right to dignity in the pursuit of televisual novelty. I still have sweaty flashbacks of him and Portillo doing a cover of "(Is This the Way to) Amarillo" for the 2005 election coverage.

A man who did not report the death of his father for nearly five months and claimed his benefit payments has been jailed for three years.

A 40-year-old man was remanded in custody yesterday after appearing in court charged with making a hoax bomb threat to Stansted airport.

Sir Alex Ferguson is confident David de Gea's wonder-save at Chelsea last week can help inspire Manchester United's young goalkeeper.

Easter egg sales could well be down on last year, one of the country'stop five manufacturers said yesterday.