TASHI TENZING (32) reached the top of Mount Everest yesterday, just days before the 44th anniversary of the conquest of the world's highest peak by his grandfather Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary.
The owner of a Nashville coffee shop, who has displayed a cinnamon bun shaped in the image of Mother Teresa, said he had received a letter from her asking him "to stop selling merchandise bearing my likeness".
Bob Bernstein, the owner of the Bongo Java coffeehouse, had displayed the "nun bun" in a glass case adorned with Christmas lights since December, when a customer perceived Mother Teresa's likeness in a cinnamon bun he was served.
Coronation Street star Thelma Barlow (67), who has played the character of Mavis Riley for the past 26 years, is to quit the soap opera, it was revealed yesterday.
But she has asked that her character, whose catchphrase is "I don't really know", not be killed off, so she can return if she wants to.
A decade after Blondie split up, Debbie Harry is getting ready for a reunion of the band that scored such hits as Heart of Glass and Sunday Girl in the 1970s and 1980s.
Harry said she was going back into the studio with original band member and long term partner Chris Stein to relaunch the group.