THE DAUGHTER of former Beatle Paul McCartney, Stella McCartney (25), is to take over from Karl Lagerfeld at the French fashion house Chloe, and will present her first show next October.
As a teenager McCartney was an apprentice with Christian Lacroix and later worked in Savile Row before launching Stella McCartney Ltd in 1995 near Portobello market in London.
British fashion designer Mary Quant (62) has been made a director of House of Fraser.
Quant, who caused a fashion revolution in the 1960s with the creation of the mini-skirt, was awarded an OBE in 1966.
Woolworths has issued a warning about the content of the Spice Girls' best-selling Girl Power, after complaints that it might offend young children.
The Daily Mail says the high-street chain has received "an avalanche of objections" to a stream of four-letter words in the book.
Princess Diana yesterday visited the Royal Brompton Hospital in London to publicise Cystic Fibrosis Week.
She has been a regular visitor to the hospital for at least two years and usually arrives unannounced, often late at night.
Bill Gates is to develop a Hindi version of his company's Windows software for the Indian market, in an effort to make computers more accessible to the country's 950 million population.
The changes are not expected to go as far as producing a new name for the software, as Kiddiki 95 (Windows 95) does not quite have the same ring about it.