Bangkok - Former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife, Pojaman, have started legal procedures for seeking political asylum in Britain, media reports said Thursday.

"At this moment, Thaksin's legal team is proceeding to ask for political asylum for Thaksin and his family in Britain," Watchara Seangprathum, the head of Thaksin's legal team in Thailand, told The Nation newspaper.

London - Passengers on a flight from Britain to Crete were given the choice of either arriving at their destination without their bags or getting off the plane, British media reported Wednesday.

Already seated aboard the flight, the passengers of a Viking airlines flight were told the aircraft needed to reduce its weight before the journey and that either half the passengers would have to disembark, or they could all go, but without their luggage.

London- A former convict is now washing windows at Prince Charles's new Llwyny Wormwood Estate in Wales after having been apparently hired without any screening, the Daily Mirror reported Wednesday.

Matthew Bell, 35, has previously served two jail terms, 9 months for burglary and 21 days for not paying a traffic fine.

Bell, who at the outset of 2008 had set up a cleaning company, had worked two days cleaning the windows of the new residence before Prince Charles and his wife Camilla arrived. Bell received 1,200 pounds (1,500 euros) for his work.

London, Aug. 20 : The grandfather of Britain’s youngest terrorist is a leading figure in the fight against extremism.

Teen fanatic Hammaad Munshi faces up to ten years in jail after he was convicted of being part of an al-Qaeda cell aged just 16, but his 72-year-old grandfather Sheikh Yakub Munshi preaches about “living in peace”.

According to The Sun, Munshi was part of a Muslim delegation, which travelled to NATO’s Brussels headquarters to discuss terrorism and the problems in Iraq in 2005.

London, Aug. 20 : Funds collected by the BBC’s Children in Need charity could have been used to recruit and train homegrown terrorists involved in the 7/7 terror attacks on London.

Children in Need''s chief Executive David Ramsden was quoted as telling Newsnight: I''m incredibly concerned that we did make an award to Leeds Community School over nine years ago.”

“Any allegation that any funding we’ve given to any project has been misused and not used to change the lives of disadvantaged children and young people makes me concerned and very sad.

“We take the trust that the public puts in BBC Children In Need and the fact that they provide us with their finding extremely seriously and I’m incredibly concerned.

London - The British airport company BAA faces having to sell two of its three airports in London, following a recommendation of the British Competition Commission on Wednesday.

The commission, which monitors competition standards, said in a preliminary report due to be confirmed in April, that the airport operator should sell two of either Heathrow, Gatwick or Stansted airports.

The watchdog also recommended that the BAA give up one of its two Scottish airports, Edinburgh or Glasgow.