"This isn't an easy call to make," said Prince's public relations woman, "but The Artist decided at four this morning that he doesn't want the Guardian to have review tickets for his Wembley concert."
The Artist Formerly Known As Rational evidently found a front-page interview celebrating his 40th birthday "disrespectful". He had a point. Who would want to be described as "open, assured, engaging, funny, lucid and eloquent, with just the occasional rough edge", and wife Mayte as "charm herself"?
Britain's vice-consul on the Spanish holiday island of Ibiza is quitting the post out of disgust at the antics of his fellow-countrymen.
The Mail on Sunday said Michael Birkett (51), felt "ashamed to be British" after spending 18 months watching young British "degenerates" who he said were "dragging us through the mud".
Former British prime minister Sir Edward Heath has told how he was "saddened" when a girl he was close to married someone else nearly half a century ago. He has revealed his heartache in an autobiography, The Course of My Life, to be serialised in the Sunday Times.
At 82, 20 years after the woman's death, he has written a poignant account of a chaste romance with Kay Raven, the daughter of a doctor in his home town of Broadstairs, Kent, the newspaper said.