Tonight on the World @ 8 with Lynne Mozar – A Labour Party Councillor has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a school girl during a celebration after he won his re-election. Councillor Mark Burton also admitted downloading indecent images of children being abused by paedophiles.

Also on the World @ 8, today Friday the 2nd February:

•    An immigrant named as Linh Hoang, has been given a mandatory short sentence for growing cannabis
•    Scottish Labour Councillor,  Irfan Rabbani has defected to the SNP
•    Nick Griffin writes this week from the Belly of the Beast in Brussels on the up to now unreported killings in South Africa
•    Nato is looking at withdrawing all its forces from Afghanistan by mid 2013
•    230 people have been rescued from a sunken ferry boat which turned over in waters near Papua New Guinea.