FOCUS OF THE DAY story: The justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, is proposing radical reform of the 1974 Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, which will see the time after which the convictions of medium-term prisoners are "spent" reduced from 10 years to four. Full story - The Guardian
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