 This is Laurie Cabot, of Salem, Massachusetts, probably the world's best-known witch. Much of the acceptance of modern-day witches is attributed to Cabot, who was actually dubbed "official witch of Massachusetts" by ex-presidential candidate Michael Dukakis at the time of the tercentenary of the witch trials seven years ago. ', 'Cabot - a witch for more than 40 years who always insists on wearing her robes public -was at first reluctant to settle in the town, which notoriously executed 20 innocents accused of witrchraft in 1692.
In a 1500 word interview with NOEL YOUNG, Cabot tells how centuries of prejudice is now being turned round, to the extent that this year she led a 20-strong delegation of American witches to Stonehenge in Britain and later gave lectures in midwifery, old-style, at Reading University. On Hallowe'een, she witnessed another historic first, a police escort for a parade of 800 witches back from celebrating witchcraft's most holy night at Gallows Hill in Salem. |
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 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 |
 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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 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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