THE controversial death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, whom some fans believe was murdered, is to be depicted in a film nearly 30 years after he drowned in his swimming pool.
Scala Productions, whose previous films include Mona Lisa and The Crying Game, are considering whether to name the man suspected of killing Jones.
Jones (27) was found drowned in the pool at his country mansion at Cotchford Farm, near Hartfield, in Sussex, on July 3rd, 1969. His death came one month after he was thrown out of the Rolling Stones for his increasingly erratic, drug induced behaviour and it was widely assumed he died after another drugs session.
But some fans believed Jones was in fact killed by a builder, after a dispute over an £8,000 bill for work carried out at his home, Cotchford Farm.
In April 1994, Frank Thorogood, a builder who lived on the estate, reportedly made a deathbed confession to killing the rock star.
The defeated contender for the Tory leadership and former chancellor of the exchequer, Kenneth Clarke, has been offered the job of floating his cherished football club, Nottingham Forest, on the stock market, it emerged yesterday.
The former chancellor has been in talks with the owner, Nigel Wray, with a view to becoming chairman of the club's holding company ahead of flotation later this year.
Mr Clarke (56), a lifelong fan, would be in charge of the business of Nottingham Forest PLC, rather than the club's football arm.
One fifth of the voting age population in greater Rio de Janeiro cannot name Fernando Henrique Cardoso as the President of Brazil, according to a poll published yesterday.
The survey, conducted by the Getulio Vargas Foundation, also found that 30 per cent of the 1,578 people surveyed in the Brazilian city could not identify Rio state governor, Marcelo Alencar.
Pollsters said they were somewhat baffled, noting that 97 per cent of the respondents had a television in their home.
"It's as if people just tune out of the country's political problems which they do not think is a subject that should interest them," one of the pollsters told Jornal do Brasil.