BOB Geldof went to the High Court in London yesterday for an emergency order relating to the future of his three children after police raided the home of his former wife Paula Yates and her lover Michael Hutchence, who are in Australia.
The children are staying with Mr Geldof.
Today's Daily Mirror reports that Nanny Anita Debney has told Ms Yates she is quitting after she found the drug, alleged to be opium, in a tube of Smarties, while searching for an instruction book to switch off the alarm on the family car.
The Duchess of York has decided to take her battle to block a book about her private life into an open court hearing, her solicitors announced last night. Her decision came a day after she learned, following a High Court judge's ruling, that such a hearing will face her with the prospect of a public quizzing over her relationship with her former financial adviser John Bryan.
She must also find £500,000 as security for any damages that might be won by her former friend Dr Allan Starkie and publishers Michael O'Mara Books Ltd.
Friends said she was determined to "fight on".
Supermodels Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer and Christy Turlington were joined in London by a host of famous names at the opening party of their Fashion Cafe last night, and singer Paul Young provided entertainment.
Jointly owned by the three and Elle "the Body" Macpherson, the cafe is younger sister of the New York original.
Campbell has stayed silent about rumours of her marriage to Italian designer Luca Orlandi, but made no attempt to hide the diamond encrusted ring on her wedding finger.
Patsy Kensit arrived at the Esquire/Apple/Waterstone's nonfiction awards ceremony to entertain guests by reading from the winning book, but there was no sign of her fiance, Oasis singer Liam Gallagher.
Kensit said: "Liam's at home. He didn't want to come, he had something else planned."