Newspaper taken to court over Bulger killer clues

Britain's Attorney-General is taking a regional newspaper to court for publishing details giving clues to the whereabouts of two teenagers who tortured and killed toddler James Bulger in 1993.

Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both 10 when they abducted and brutally murdered the 2-year-old, have been granted their freedom and new identities after serving nine years of their sentence.

An injunction was put on the media, banning any mention of the pair's new lives to protect them from the huge publicity surrounding the case and avert the threat of revenge attacks.

But the Manchester Evening News gave clues to their whereabouts just hours after the parole board announced last month that the killers, now both 18, would be released soon.

"The Manchester Evening News regrets that, despite it having explained to the Attorney-General the circumstances in which the article complained of came to be published, he has nevertheless thought it necessary to bring the [paper] before the court," the paper said.