HOME AFFAIRS: Security staff who carry out deportations are to be trained in new restraint techniques — nearly four years after the death of Jimmy Mubenga on a deportation flight, Immigration Minister James Brokenshire announced yesterday.

Mr Mubenga died aged 46 in restraint on board a flight from Heathrow airport to his native Angola in October 2010. Three G4S employees are facing manslaughter charges over his death.

Mr Brokenshire said the new training would be aimed at de-escalating situations to minimise the use of restraint.

EMPLOYMENT: Almost 20,000 students were out of work six months after leaving university, while thousands more took jobs as cleaners, office juniors and road sweepers, according to new figures released yesterday by the .

Higher Education Statistics Agency figures suggested that those who studied science subjects were more likely to be in professional occupations than those who took arts and humanities-based degrees.

Men were also more likely to be considered unemployed than women, the latest figures suggest.

TRAVEL: The owners of Trainline, the rail booking system created by Virgin and Stagecoach that charges customers a fee of £7.50, are reported to be lining up a £400 million flotation. 

Exponent Private Equity began to tout the business in 2010 but slammed on the brakes in 2012 after attracting a highest bid of only £250m.

Train drivers’s union Aslef leader Mick Whelan said the privateers’s money spinner is “yet another example of private companies exploiting passengers and taxpayers to squeeze more private profit out of what should be a public service.”

HILLSBOROUGH: The safe capacity of a terrace pen at Hillsborough where fans died had been reached near to the exact time an exit gate was opened which let in more than 2,000 supporters, the inquests into the 1989 tragedy was told yesterday. 

Pen three on the Leppings Lane terrace had an estimated 1,296 fans inside at the FA Cup semi-final when the safe capacity was just 678, according to a stadium expert.

A breakdown of timings had showed that ironically 678 fans were in the pen at 2.52pm when an exit gate was opened for more than five minutes.