"She has been told to say nothing."Ms Davies's solicitor, Neil O'May, of Bindman & Partners, said the officers did not ask her about the MI6 report. "They did not make it clear what they were interested in."She is astonished at being arrested without any warning in the way she was and very uncertain about what the allegations are and what she's done to be interesting to the special branch," he said. "She's rather worried about being on bail and facing further questioning."Ms Davies's interest in politics and intelligence matters is quite recent, a result, she says, of "having an inquiring mind". She helped to organise a protest last weekend at Menwith Hill, the US eavesdropping base on the Yorkshire Moors.Since joining the Shayler campaign, Ms Davies has become a member of the Association of Investigative Journalists. David Northmore, the association's chairman, condemned the police action, saying: "Her arrest and detention is of grave concern."The Government has already begun a High Court action to sue Mr Shayler for breach of confidence and infringing Crown copyright.Mr Shayler, 33, worked for MI5 from 1994 until 1997.

Upon leaving the security service he went public on his concerns over the running of MI5 and MI6, claiming that MI5 had held files on Peter Mandelson, Harriet Harman and other "subversive" individuals who later went on to become Labour cabinet ministers.. The doctor who blew the whistle on the serial killer Harold Shipman has died of cancer, five weeks after seeing him brought to justice. The doctor who blew the whistle on the serial killer Harold Shipman has died of cancer, five weeks after seeing him brought to justice. Dr Linda Reynolds, 49, helped initiate a police inquiry into Shipman - who has been convicted of murdering 15 women patients - when, in March 1998, she alerted a coroner to the unusually high number of patients dying in his care. Her concerns were based on the large number of cremation forms she and her partners were countersigning.Dr Reynolds - who workedopposite the surgery where Shipman practised in Hyde, Greater Manchester - said it was her greatest wish to live for the day justice caught up with Shipman. She died on Monday seven months after being diagnosed with liver cancer..

I'm a city boy. If I'm going to go for an invigorating walk, it's most likely to be a shopping trip down north London's Kentish Town Road. So a 90-mile stretch of country Tarmac, swooping from Poundford in Sussex to just beyond Winchester, would not have been my own first choice of subject for a book. But to Pieter Boogaart, the 55-year-old Dutch author of an extraordinary 218-page book devoted to the delights of the A272, this rural thoroughfare is more than just a road To him, it represents the "epitome of England" I'm a city boy. If I'm going to go for an invigorating walk, it's most likely to be a shopping trip down north London's Kentish Town Road. So a 90-mile stretch of country Tarmac, swooping from Poundford in Sussex to just beyond Winchester, would not have been my own first choice of subject for a book. But to Pieter Boogaart, the 55-year-old Dutch author of an extraordinary 218-page book devoted to the delights of the A272, this rural thoroughfare is more than just a road.