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Supermodel Iman (41) still plans to have children with husband David Bowie - just not yet, she said yesterday

Supermodel Iman (41) still plans to have children with husband David Bowie - just not yet, she said yesterday. "That's still on the cards," she told Hello! magazine.

Somali-born Iman thinks she was "too young", aged 22, when she had her daughter Zulekha, now 19.

Stephen Fry may be forced to stand down as rector of Dundee University after he admitted taking ecstasy. He said he found the drug "very impressive".

Fry told Neon magazine that the drug made him feel "touchy-feely". He added: "One should try everything once, except incest and country dance - as somebody once said."

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The American music industry has honoured B.B. King (72) with a lifetime achievement award. Musicians such as Bonnie Raitt, Ruth Brown, Buddy Guy and John Lee Hooker gathered to celebrate with King as he received the Blues Foundation's award at the Palace Theatre in Hollywood.

A memorial service was held yesterday at St James's church in London, to celebrate the life of author Laurie Lee.

Lee, who died in May, aged 83, wrote Cider With Rosie, now one of the most widely used English set texts.

Actor William Gaunt, writer John Mortimer and Education and Employment Secretary David Blunkett were among those paying tribute.

Two Hollywood movies about the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, can legally be shown in Hong Kong, a government official said yesterday. However, there are fears that the films, Seven Years in Tibet and Kundun, will not actually reach the screen since distributors have declined to purchase them for fear of offending Beijing.

Former dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn launched a new literary prize for Russia yesterday, named after himself. The first winner of the Solzhenitsyn Prize, to be announced in March, will be rewarded in US dollars - worth about £16,000.