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A funeral cortege is to pass through the home town of Jill Dando so that members of the public can pay their last respects

A funeral cortege is to pass through the home town of Jill Dando so that members of the public can pay their last respects. A private funeral service for the 37-year-old television presenter, gunned down outside her London home 18 days ago, is to be held in Weston-super-Mare next Friday.

Three more workers have been suspended after being accused of hacking into Ms Dando's credit file, Lloyds TSB confirmed yesterday. Two staff have already been sacked and one suspended from the company's Edinburgh office after investigators came across a number of "illegitimate" credit searches into her financial affairs.

Sir Edmund Hillary said yesterday he was disgusted that pictures of George Mallory's body had been sold to the media. Mallory and his climbing companion, Andrew Irvine, died on Mount Everest in 1924, 29 years before Hillary and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay conquered the peak.

Pictures of Mallory's body have been published in Newsweek magazine and in newspapers in Britain, Australia and New Zealand.

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Sarah Balabagan, a former Philippine maid who became a singer after being saved from death by firing squad in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), brought her music to an overcrowded Manila prison for women on Thursday.

And there was hardly a dry eye in the place when the concert in the open yard of the Correctional Institute for Women in Manila was over. Even Balabagan, who has become a national symbol as an underdog who conquered adversity, broke down and cried.