In brief: Conrad hopes for Bush pardon

After Barbara Amiel (pictured) bade a tearful farewell to her husband Conrad Black at the gates of a Florida prison on Monday, Black's lawyers say they are not ruling out a pardon from President Bush... Former ITN news presenter Carol Barnes is in hospital after suffering a stroke... Roger Federer has questioned Andy Murray's tactics after being knocked out of the Dubai Championships by the Scot. "You want to look to win a point more often, rather than wait for the other guy to miss," Federer said, querying whether Murray is progressing as a player... MI5 closely monitored the activities of Joan Littlewood, the theatre director who went on to produce Oh! What a Lovely War, and urged the BBC to blacklist her during WW2, once classified files have revealed... Paul Raymond, the multi-millionaire pornographer dubbed the 'King of Soho' has died at 82, leaving a £650m fortune... Princess Eugenie has described her parents the Duke and the Duchess of York as the "best divorced couple I know" in an interview with Tatler magazine ahead of her 18th birthday...