Portrait of the week | 15 November 2012

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Abu Qatada, detained in Britain for seven years although not charged here, but wanted on terrorist charges in Jordan, could not be deported, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission ruled, because evidence might be used against him that had been obtained from the torture of others; so he was freed on bail. The annual rate of inflation by the Consumer Prices Index rose to 2.7 per cent in October, from 2.2 per cent in September, and to 3.2 per cent, from 2.6 per cent, by the Retail Prices Index. Unemployment fell by 49,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to September. The Rt Revd Justin Welby, Bishop of Durham, is to be enthroned as the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury on 21 March 2013. Frankie Dettori, the jockey, was reported to have tested positive for a banned substance at Longchamp. Nadine Dorries, the backbench MP, had 3,000 cockroaches and 5,000 crickets poured on her in an underground crate, as part of a television game show filmed in Australia.