For four years between 1981 and 1985, (Geoffrey) Dickens railed in Parliament against a paedophile ring which he claimed was connected to a trade in child pornography, then controlled by gangsters.

In 1981 Dickens had used Parliamentary privilege to name a diplomat and MI6 operative, Sir Peter Hayman as a pederast and demanded the Attorney General explain why he had escaped prosecution over the discovery of violent pornography on a London bus two years previously.

Two years later, in 1983, he warned a paedophile network involved “big, big names – people in positions of power, influence and responsibility” and threatened to expose them in Parliament.

In 1984, he campaigned for the outlawing of Sir Peter’s Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) organisation. He also handed a dossier containing allegations of abuse of children in local authority care TO THE THEN HOME SECRETARY, LEON BRITTAN.

After a 30-minute meeting with Sir Leon, Dickens said he had been 'encouraged' but later expressed concern that THE CABINET MINISTER HAD NOT BANNED THE PIE.

The Pope... has a meeting with the Italian President, Giorgio Napolitano, on February 23 to beg for immunity against prosecution for allegations of child sex crimes.

Diversity may be killing older African-Americans and Hispanics, according to a new peer-reviewed study published in the America Journal of Public Health, which shows that people suffer less cancer and heart disease when they live among their racial or ethnic peers.

'Living in an ethnically dense neighborhood is beneficial when it comes to heart disease and cancer,' said Kimberly Alvarez, a co-author of the new study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health.

The figures reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012 there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures.