Former UK trade secretary Peter Mandelson is to sell the west London house which cost him his job, he said yesterday. Mandelson quit the Cabinet before Christmas after he admitted concealing a £373,000 loan from former paymaster general Geoffrey Robinson to pay for the house, in fashionable Notting Hill.
The boss of the limousine firm which provided the Mercedes in which Princess Diana was killed tipped off a photographer of her movements on the fateful day.
Nils Siegel spoke to French photographer Fabrice Chassery by telephone three times on the day of the crash, allowing him to track her every movement from the moment she arrived in Paris.
Details of the mobile phone calls have been released by a senior French judicial source. Siegel, who runs the Etoile limousine service, had previously denied that he spoke to photographers.
President Nelson Mandela said yesterday he felt fit enough at 80 to take on boxer Mike Tyson.
Mandela told Bild newspaper he exercised every day and believed he could last longer against Tyson than Frans Botha, a South African boxer Tyson beat in five rounds last week.
Charges against one of three men accused of health and safety breaches over the death of a roadie for the rock band Oasis were dropped yesterday when a court ruled he had no case to answer.
A sheriff ruled that promoter William Wright had not breached health and safety regulations.
Jim Hunter (25) was crushed to death between a lorry and a fork-lift truck on the eve of the concert at Loch Lomond in August, 1996.
Commons Speaker Betty Boothroyd yesterday rebuked a Tory frontbencher for calling Paymaster General Dawn Primarolo a "stupid woman".
Opposition treasury spokesman Nic Gibb withdrew the remark he had made during question time exchanges about the effects of proposed changes to EU tax rules on London's eurobond market.