BRITISH acrobat Dan Thomas is jumping for joy after landing a role in Swan Lake. The former member of the British Olympic acrobatics team is using his talents in the more genteel world of the English National Ballet, whose patron is Diana, Princess of Wales. Dan, from Hemel Hempstead, Hertshire, plays a tumbling gargoyle in the £1.8 million production of the ballet at London's Royal Albert Hall.
The mother of Diana Princess of Wales, was yesterday said to be showing no signs of trauma after becoming the victim of an alleged stalker. A man was arrested last week at the home of Frances Shand Kydd on the island of Seil on the west coast of Scotland. Her local parish priest, Father Sean MacAuley, said Ms Shand Kydd, a devout Roman Catholic convert, was showing no outward signs of distress.
A tired Pope John Paul II, greeted by an emotional crowd of about one million on the ninth day of his visit to his home country, yesterday canonised Queen Hedwig of Anjou who lived between 1374 and 1399. She was hailed as a saint soon after her death because of her sensitivity towards peasants and the poor, Comic actor Robin Williams says he was saved from a life of drink and drugs by his baby son. It was when he looked into his son Zach's face that he realised he had to change his life.
Williams, the star of Mrs Doubtfire and many other films, first found fame and fortune in television's Mork and Mindy. But it also led him into drink and drug dependency until Zach's birth 14 years ago, he revealed in Woman's Own.