Grave find in US airfield Archaeologists have discovered an Anglo-Saxon grave in the middle of a US Air Force F-15 fighter base in Suffolk, it was disclosed last night. The grave dating from 550AD containing a horse and rider, who was buried with great ceremony, was unearthed at RAF Lakenheath. It is probably one of the two Britons."He said the body was definitely not that of a guerrilla commander who died 21 months ago, Zia-ud-Din, as local residents in the village in Kashmir's Anantnag valley had claimed.Paul Wells, 26, and Keith Mangan, 35, together with American Donald Hutchings and German Dirk Hasert, were abducted by separatists while trekking through the Himalayas.. The British Museum described the grave as "a very special find", explaining that the burial of the man and horse together was often seen in mainland Europe but not in Britain.

India body `probably hostage' A Scotland Yard officer due to investigate a body exhumed in Kashmir arrived in India yesterday as the local police chief said it was probably one of two British hostages kidnapped two years ago. Gurbachan Jagat, director-general of police in India's Jammu and Kashmir state, said further tests were needed to establish if the body was that of Paul Wells from Nottingham or Keith Mangan from Middlesbrough.But he added: "So far whatever characteristics have been noted on the body have matched whatever information we had of the hostages. He was appointed by MI5 as Commissioner for the Security Service, its first independent watchdog.. She added: "He's made it very clear he has not made up his mind about the outcome of the scrutiny. He very much regrets making this off-the- cuff comment."Within the legal profession Lord Justice Stuart-Smith has built a reputation as a stolid, Establishment figure. Mr Hicks said: "There was a judicial review of about six or seven cases about three years ago. But a lot of the things we are going on about - some major things - ran in the appeal courts, meaning there's a lot of the new evidence he can't comment on."Meanwhile Jack Spriggs, the councillor who chairs the Liverpool City Council Hillsborough Disaster Working Party, said the judge could not shrug off this off as a "flippant remark" and should resign.The judge is in Liverpool for three days to receive information gathered by relatives about the disaster, and particularly the role played by the police on the day.He will look at new evidence that may cast doubts on other inquiries into the disaster and the inquest verdicts of accidental death.

He expects to report to Mr Straw later this year.News of the judge's apology came from a spokeswoman for the Home Office. He said, `Are all your families here or are they going to be late like Liverpool fans?'"He added: "It's the first time he's met the families and he's coming out with comments like that."Trevor Hicks, chair of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, who was late for the meeting and did not hear the comment, said they had accepted the judge's apology with reservation but said his "gaffe" was only part of the problem. Shaking hands with Phil Hammond, whose teenage son Philip died at Hillsborough, he asked if some of the families were going to be late "like Liverpool fans".For those affected, the words invoked images of the FA Cup semi-final clash when many of the Liverpool fans arrived late at the Sheffield Wednesday ground - a factor which some feel contributed to subsequent events.The reaction was swift Mr Hammond said: "I can't believe that remark I just walked away. As Michael Streeter finds out, the row has led to doubts over the scope of the inquiry. Lord Justice Stuart-Smith yesterday apologised for a comment he made during a meeting to discuss his re- examination of the 1989 tragedy. The 69-year-old Court of Appeal judge , who was appointed in June by the Home Secretary, Jack Straw, met families of victims at the Merseyside Maritime Museum yesterday morning.

An off-the-cuff remark by the judge recently appointed to look into the Hillsborough football tragedy has angered families of victims. She said: "In a political paper you can write anything provided it's not criminal."When it gets into council it would have to be put in a totally different way."She agreed, however, that it was wrong if council officers had been provided with copies of party political papers But she said legal opinion had backed the housing policy. "At no time would we have undertaken any policy which was in any way illegal I have a healthy respect for the law I was a magistrate for many years," she said.. Did the Princess of Wales speak before she died? The hospital that tried to save her says no Mohamed Al Fayed said yes. Jojo Moyes and John Lichfield discover that the events of 31 August are unlikely to become any less opaque. The Paris hospital which treated Diana, Princess of Wales, yesterday flatly contradicted claims by Mohamed Al Fayed that the Princess uttered dying words and requests. A spokesman for the Hospital Pitie Salpetriere described any suggestion that the Princess could even talk as "a gross error".