AUTHOR Salman Rushdie, shrugging off official concern that he might be the target of an Islamic assassination plot on Danish soil, collected a European Union literary award last night at a ceremony in Copenhagen.
Speaking at a news conference before the prize giving, he said he accepted the government's apologies for its initial attempts to block the visit but remained sceptical that there was a concrete plan to kill him in Copenhagen.
John Major has graphically described the trials and tribulations of being the husband of a best selling author. While Norma Major was writing Chequers: The Prime Minister's Country House and its History, the British Prime Minister "learned how to cook every weekend - a skill that had fallen into disuse over the years," he told a Foyles Literary Luncheon in her honour ate Grosvenor House Hotel.
The Duchess of York has told an American TV interviewer she would not want to marry again. The former Sarah Ferguson is in America to launch her autobiography, My Story.
Baywatch, starring Pamela Anderson, disappears from screens after its last episode on Saturday - but will be back next year.
ITV said Baywatch was being taken off because of a scheduling problem. The series attracts one billion viewers in 142 countries.