 This is Fergie, Duchess of York, getting down to work on a promotional tour for Wedgwood china in the USA. The duchess, looking slim and trim,( she didn't forget to plug Weightwatchers) signed hundreds of items of Wedgwood china - cheerfully ignoring the Royal Family convention of no autographs. Sarah Fergusson |
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 Just turned 47, nurse Debbie Brindley wasn't worried enough about her looks to think about plastic surgery - but she really wanted to do SOMETHING. "I had that tired-face look, and fine lines and wrinkles were beginning to appear, " she said. "I really thought I could be looking better."
Then when her boss Dr David McDaniel started testing a revolutionary new light treatment as part of a clinical trial in anti-ageing techniques, she volunteered to change roles and become a patient.
It was a lot easier than she thought. Said Debbie. " All I had to do was to wash my face, then sit in front of this screen, with thousand of little yellew lights for about a minute at a time . ."
She had eight sessions about three weeks apart., one minute each time. Now the amazing device that transformed Debbie's complexion is set to obtain official US Government approval |
 Sergei Khrushchev, son of the Soviet dictator, talked frankly about the days he spent in his father's company as the Cold War spiralled to its most dangerous confrontation - the Cuban missile crisis - and told why he had now become an American citizen. |
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 The new film King Arthur which opened this summer moves the location for the stirring deeds of the legendary king to the area of Hadrian’s Wall on the Scottish Border, hundreds of miles north of Glastonbury in Somerset which has long been the centre for Arthurian folklore.
But for once, according to historian John Matthews, this is not a case of Hollywood distorting the facts to get a better story
“I am firmly convinced this is the nearest you are ever going to get to the truth about Arthur,” says Matthews, who was the historical adviser on the film. “There is now overwhelming evidence ."
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 What is the truth about Richard Reid?
A bungling bomber who made history only because he failed to set his shoes alight - or the most senior Al Qaeda operative in custody anywhere in the world? Journalist Daniel Pearl is believed to have met his death following the trail of the elusive man who became known as the shoe-bomber.
Since his dramatic arrest at Boston Airport, Reid has had only ONE contact with the world of the media. In a six-page handwritten letter to Noel Young he declared that he had no regrets over trying to bring down a plane with 197 people on board." I make no apologies for my activities nor those of my associates ", he said - a statement that the US prosecutors later quoted arguing for the maximum jail sentence: life that really means life. |
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Shackleton's injustice to the crusty Scot who saved his crew
A bronze statue of a watchful ship’s cat has been placed on the grave of its master, a crusty old Scots carpenter, in a cemetery in Wellington, New Zealand, righting a 90-year-old injustice .
The cat, Mrs Chippy (actually a male) is on guard against anyone else who dares trifle with the reputation of his beloved master, Harry McNish. And in particular any apologist for Sir Ernest Shackleton, who not only denied McNish the Polar medal he richly deserved - but also had Mrs Chippy shot in cold blood when the crew was forced to take to the ice.
It is a fitting end to an epic tale that saw Shackleton’s 28-strong crew escape with their lives after the explorer’s 1914 Antarctic expedition went disastrously wrong. If Chippy could purr, he would.
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