Karadzic's double life as alternative medicine guru Dr Dragan Dabic

IT is day two of the Radovan Karadzic story, following the arrest of the ex-Bosnian Serb leader yesterday.

"Today can be a little more about the double life he was leading - and more from his lawyer.

"I think they have found where he was living, there are also students from his courses."

It is understood that Karadzic was working under the name Dr Dragan Dabic as an alternative medicine guru in Belgrade.

"The legal process swings into action today too, and domestically it looks like that initial stage will take three days.

"It does not look like he's going to go to the Hague [United Nations war crimes tribunal] straight away - but then they did whisk Slobodan Milosevic [former president of Serbia] away very quickly."

"That was because the atmosphere in Serbia was different at the time - there were protests from Milosevic's supporters.

"There were protests over Karadzic on the first night, but not that many, so there is something to say about how Serbia has changed."

"In terms of the legal side of things, we should not assume that the legal process is cut and dried.

"In a sense, we did the case against Karadzic yesterday, what is his defence going to be - because there will be one."

"Maybe he is just going to blame it all on Ratko Mladic [his former military commander who is still on the run]."

Doctors are set to have their own check-up every five years - to make sure they are still up to scratch.

"I did this story back in February 2007, they have been looking at this for about 10 years, but it look like it's finally going ahead.

"I'm not sure why the Today Programme went so big on it. It's worth a mention but I'm not sure it's worth a lead as it's simply not new.

"I mean, it was first mentioned in 1995, and it stepped up a gear after Harold Shipman, when Alan Milburn [former health secretary] told the General Medical Council it was 'drinking in the last chance saloon'.

We are in Glasgow East ahead of the by-election tomorrow.

"It's a very difficult one to call as the polls seem to be all over the place at the minute."

Thoughts turn to how our political editor Gary Gibbon - with his upper-class southern accent - will be received in Glasgow.

"Good luck Gary," said one native of Scotland, "I can do some translation work if he can't understand them."

Minutes from a recent Bank of England meeting have been released today, highlighting certain fears over the economy.

"It shows that members of the Monetary Policy Committee were quite shocked by the level of inflation, and warnings that it will go much higher before it comes down.

"It's clear that some members were in favour of a rate rise - which shows it's more likely in the future than people thought an hour ago."

"Can we actually bring these minutes alive - turn it into a tussle? Can we work out who was in favour of rates rises and who wasn't?"

"It will take a bit of guess work; but we can do."

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