THE Duchess of York reported to be £3 million in debt, was last night considering an invitation to join the board of a US charity to help raise funds.
If the duchess accepts the Millennium Society's offer she will work with the wife of her former friend, Texas millionaire Steve Wyatt. Cate Magennis Wyatt is chairwoman of the society which raises money for international scholarships.
A mysterious caller offering to buy all 20 royal Spitting, Image puppets for a total of, £100,000 was turned down by the makers of the television, satire. The caller stressed he would only pay £5,000 for each puppet if he was given the master moulds.
Coronation Street buffs will be tuning in next week to see single mother Tricia Armstrong released from jail in a controversial storyline which has even had politicians talking. Cash strapped Tricia (actress Tracy Brabin) was sent to prison after refusing to pay a £400 fine for failing to pay her television licence.
Madonna has promised a wary Argentina that her portrayal of Eva Peron in Alan Parker's movie of the musical Evita would not insult the memory of the woman. Graffiti has appeared on the road from Buenos Aires airport, where she is expected to arrive today, saying: "Viva Evita! Out With Madonna!"
As North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il made his first recorded public appearance in more than three weeks, the ruling party newspaper published yesterday a list of "priceless witty remarks" by the 53 year old son and heir of the late president Kim Il Sung.
Some of the "witty remarks" attributed to Kim are:
-"To expect the victory in the revolution without the leader is as good as to expect a flower blooming without the sun."
-"The leader is the centre of the socio political integrity and the top brain representing the will of the popular masses."
Tory MP Edwina Currie and by election veteran Lord Sutch are to play themselves in a new political soap made by Prince Edward's TV company.
Annie's Bar, which was launched at the House of Commons yesterday, is set to feature the lives, schemes and loves of backbench MPs.
President Jean Bertrand Aristide (42) of Haiti, a former Catholic priest, is to wed Mildred Trouillot, a Haitian American lawyer.
Spanish poet Rafael Alberti (93) has been taken to hospital with breathing problems.
Alberti is the last surviving member of the so called Generation of 1927 poets who were writing in the 1920s and 1930s.
Newt Gingrich, America's radical Republican and Speaker of the House of Representatives, wants to write a book with Coleen McCullough.
The author of the best selling novel The Thorn Birds has invited Gingrich to her home on Norfolk Island for the project. The literary plot was hatched during breakfast at a Washington hotel.