MP's wife accused of kitten theft

The wife of an MP appeared in court charged with breaking into the house of her husband's lover and stealing a tabby kitten worth 20 pounds. Christine Hemming, wife of Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming is accused of burgling the home of Emily Cox, a researcher with whom the MP fathered a child in 2005. On his blog on Thursday, John Hemming published a picture of the missing kitten, Beauty, and asked for anyone who had seen her to contact him at the House of Commons