A group of leading musicians has called on Russia's president Vladimir Putin to give a fair hearing to members of a punk band facing prison for performing a ‘legitimate protest’. The trio, Pussy Riot, face up to seven years behind bars after staging a performance in a Moscow cathedral calling on the Virgin Mary to remove President Putin from power. In a letter to The Times newspaper, the group of British musicians including Jarvis Cocker, Pete Townshend, Martha Wainwright and Neil Tennant, said that the incident by the band amounted to ‘a minor breach of the peace’. Scroll down for video of Pussy Riot's protest

The three young women said they had wanted to change
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Russia with their action but could have made an ‘ethical’ mistake by offending worshippers.


By Will Stewart PUBLISHED: 10:16 EST, 18 November 2013 | UPDATED: 13:42 EST, 18 November 2013 This is the extraordinary moment two mothers swapped their babies back again, following an appalling maternity hospital mix-up meant they took home the wrong daughters. The women, who are both called Lyudmila and were given Caesarean operations at the same time in a Russian hospital, breast fed and bonded with each other's children. The handover came 102 days after their births, in the same maternity clinic which had committed the blunder. Scroll down for video Lyudmila Dubayeva (left) and Lyudmila Trofimova (right) are finally reunited with their babies 102 days after they were swapped at birth in a hospital blunder

Sitting next to her, the other Lyudmila was speechless, but kept one hand softly touching
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Aishat, who she has raised and will now lose.


As her two-year-old daughter Darcey covers her hands in paint then shrieks with delight, Trish Gregory looks on with amusement. Her once tidy and ordered home in Newark, Nottinghamshire, has descended into a permanent state of noisy chaos, since Darcey and her baby sister, Bea, came along. But Trish, 49, wouldn’t have it any other way. Trish and Rob Gregory with Darcey, left, and Bea, right, conceived their children through egg donations In fact, she loves being a mum so much so that she and her partner Rob, 46, are even hoping to start trying for another child next year.

Trish says she's a calmer mother to Bea, left, and
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Darcey, right, now that she is older