ACTING on the "go for it" guidelines of career officers, an 18 year old theological student stepped in to conduct a young couple's wedding because the vicar was late.
But the wedding, near Huddlersfield, has been cancelled because the student was not ordained. Rodney Earnshaw and Shirley Wilson, both 25, are suing for the cost of a new wedding by the unnamed student, who was doing work experience as a server, or church assistant.
Priyanka Gandhi, a member of India's first political family, can marry next week after a villager's claim that she was his wife was thrown out of court in New Delhi yesterday.
The court imposed a fine of 3,000 rupees (£59) on Vicharapu Ramkrishna Goud for filing a "bogus and vexatious case."
Geoffrey Rippon, Lord Hexham and former prime minister Edward Heath's right hand man in negotiating Britain's entry into the European Community, has died. He was aged 72.
Heath said his death was "a great loss" to the Conservative Party.
The reception party after Liberian warlord Charles Taylor's wedding with Jewel Howard has run into its second day in a covered tennis court.
The couple were married with all the trappings of a state occasion on Tuesday, Taylor's 49th birthday. Some 300 mattresses were brought from the capital for the reception.