Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Tuesday 26 Feb 2013

A judge has been arrested on suspicion of lying to police during the Chris Huhne speeding points investigation. A jury at the retrial of Huhne's ex-wife Vicky Pryce was told that barrister and recorder Constance Briscoe was arrested over allegations that she lied in a witness statement that stated she had not spoken to the media about the case.

The inquest into the death of Surrey cricketer Tom Maynard has been told that the 23-year-old had been using cocaine on a daily basis for months and was four times over the drink-drive limit when he was killed on train tracks in south London last June. He died after running from police when they stopped his car at 4am.

David Bowie's comeback album The Next Day has been greeted with rave notices from reviewers. The Daily Telegraph's Neil McCormick called it an "absolute wonder: urgent, sharp-edged, bold, beautiful and baffling..", The Times' Will Hodgkinson said it was a "great album" with a "sense of mystery", and The Guardian's Alexis Petridis declared it "thought-provoking, strange and filled with great songs."

Seventy per cent of adults are afraid of being sent to a care home, according to a survey for the Alzheimer's Society, with 60% saying that not enough was being done to stop abuse at the homes. The survey revealed that as many as 8 in 10 of patients are afflicted with dementia as a result of the ageing population, 30% up on previous figures.

A single week of sleeping less than six hours a night can 'switch off' hundreds of genes that play a key role in the body's constant process of self-repair and defence, raising the risk of illnesses including heart disease and obesity, scientists at Surrey University have claimed. Tests showed that sleep deprivation altered the function of 711 genes.