The wife of Lord Lucan, who vanished without trace in 1974 after the murder of the family nanny, is taking formal steps to have her husband declared legally dead.
Since "Lucky" Lucan fled London, there have been 70 claimed sightings of him every year, and the police file remains open.
The former England cricketer and Bishop of Liverpool, the Right Rev David Sheppard (69) has returned to the House of Lords as a Labour peer. Lord Sheppard was one of the most outspoken critics of the Conservative government for 18 years.
The Spice Girls are the queens of tittle-tattle, grabbing five times as much space in gossip columns as their nearest rival, Chris Evans, according to a study of British papers.
Joan Collins is making a rare return to cinema for a film about the British class system. Collins is to star in a period drama about a rich family which lacks class.
A Paris court has fined the French gossip magazine Paris- Match 50,000 francs for publishing a photograph of Princess Diana in an embrace with Dodi Fayed.
Author Joseph Heller has denied his famous novel Catch-22 is remarkably similar to a little-known book, The Sky is a Lonely Place by Louis Falstein.