10 things you need to know this Monday morning

Never read the Sunday papers? Slept through the Today programme? Forgot to tape the X Factor? Not sure whether your company went bankrupt over the weekend? The First Post's new Monday morning service, posted at 8am, is designed to help...

BONUS BLOCKERThe Queen's Speech, which on Wednesday will kick off the final parliamentary term before the general election, is to include a Labour bill to allow the FSA to strip "reckless" bankers of their bonuses. The Conservatives have dismissed it as "headline chasing". Nick Clegg of the Lib Dems says the Queen's Speech should be cancelled and replaced by an emergency programme of reform designed to "clean up politics once and for all". He writes in the Independent today: "Instead of being just a sorry footnote to a shameful year at Westminster, these months would become a moment of great change in British political history."

'NIGHT STALKER' ARREST
A 52-year-old man called Delroy Grant has been arrested in connection with a series of up to 200 attacks and rapes on elderly people in south-east London dating back to 1992. Dubbed by police the "night stalker", his victims were mainly women, some of whom were raped, but also included men. His modus operandi was to disable telephone lines and power supplies before breaking into his victims' homes. Grant is to appear in court in Greenwich today charged with five rapes, six indecent assaults and 11 burglaries. More...BNP ELECTION STRATEGY
Nick Griffin, leader of the ultra-right British Nationalist Party, is to stand in the general election for the east London borough of Barking, a seat held by Labour's Margaret Hodge. "The thrust of that campaign will be the housing and education problems in the borough, and the way that the Labour party has let that borough down in a catastrophic way," he told his party conference. It is one of half a dozen seats where the BNP aims to mount a "serious" challenge: party policy will include the return of all British troops from Afghanistan.

COPENHAGEN DOOMED
World leaders have acknowledged over the weekend that the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month will be unable to agree on an action plan - because the US has refused to sign up to targets on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Under a compromise "two-step" plan proposed by Denmark, the summit will proceed with the new target of a "politically binding" agreement, to be followed by a legal pact at a second summit towards the end of 2010.

WAGS' SWAG
Pop singer and X Factor judge Cheryl Cole has overtaken Victoria Beckham as the highest-earning footballer's WAG (as in wives and girlfriends), according to the News of the World. Cole is thought to have earned £6.9m over the past two years from music, TV and her L'Oreal contract, just pipping Posh's £6.75m from fashion, modelling and her Spice Girls' reunion tour. Meanwhile Jamie Archer - the 34-year-old with the Afro - was voted off the X Factor last night.LESBIANS DO IT BETTER
Lesbian couples make better parents than heterosexual couples according to Stephen Scott, director of research at the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners. Children with two female parents turn out to be more aspirational than those with opposite-sex parents. One reason put forward for same-sex couples making good parents is that their children cannot be conceived accidentally - parents must make an active decision to adopt or find a sperm donor.EDWARD WOODward dies
Edward Woodward, the Croydon-born star of the US TV series The Equalizer and cult horror film The Wicker Man, has died aged 79. His agent confirmed that the actor had been suffering from a number of illnesses, including pneumonia, and died at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro. Woodward is survived by his second wife, actress Michele Dotrice, and four children.

JIMMY CHOOS ON EBAY
Hundreds of shoppers queued up on Saturday to buy out a range of Jimmy Choo footwear produced especially for the high street chain H&M - the latest wheeze in the high street war between Primark, Topshop and H&M. The shoes were priced between £50 and £180 - a fraction of the normal boutique price - and within hours they were trading for double on eBay.

CHILD MIGRANTS
Gordon Brown is to apologise to survivors of the Child Migrants Programme under which tens of thousands of poor children and orphans were shipped out to Australia, Canada and other former colonies between the years 1930 and 1970. Many were misinformed that their parents had died and they were headed for a "better life". Often they ended up as farm labourers or were kept in institutions where many were abused. Australian PM Kevin Rudd got his apology in first at a ceremony in Canberra this morning.

BELLE DE JOUR NAMED
The identity of Belle de Jour, the young woman who blogged about her experiences as a London call girl, has been revealed. She is a 34-year-old research scientist called Dr Brooke Magnanti, who decided to own up to the Sunday Times in order to foil a Daily Mail scoop. Her confessions formed the basis of Billie Piper's TV series, Secret Diary of a Call Girl. More... ·