An ex-soldier accused of a far-right plot to set fire to a left-wing bookshop has told a jury of his struggles with his mental health, drinking and taking drugs. William Howitt, 27, who is on trial accused of writing a plan to burn down the Five Leaves bookshop in Nottingham, took to the witness stand at Birmingham Crown Court. Howitt, of West Bridgford in Nottinghamshire, had allegedly written a detailed plan to carry out an arson attack on the bookshop on his iPhone, which was discovered when he was stopped at East Midlands airport on January 5. The plan had...