Blankety Blank is to return to Britain's television screens with acid-tongued Lily Savage as host. The gameshow ran for 11 years until 1990 with Terry Wogan and Les Dawson in charge. Thirteen programmes will be made for broadcast next year with the format the same as it was seven years ago.
Wogan chaired the game for 219 editions up to December 1983 when Dawson took over.
The late comic famously greeted viewers with the words: "Welcome seekers of culture to Blankety Blank, the punk version of Mastermind."
Imelda Marcos, widow of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, was rushed to a Manila hospital yesterday with high blood pressure. Doctors said her condition was unstable.
Marcos has been hospitalised several times in the past for hypertension and suffers from the eye disease, glaucoma.
Marcos, a member of the House of Representatives, was sentenced by an anti-graft court in 1993 to 18 years in jail for corruption but is out on bail while appealing her case.
She is facing other cases for allegedly helping her husband loot the country during his 20year rule. She has denied the Marcos family was guilty of any misdeeds.
Czech President Vaclav Havel yesterday postponed a visit to Britain planned for next week after contracting a viral infection, his spokesman said.
Havel, who last year underwent lung surgery for removal of a small malignant tumour, was being treated with antibiotics for an infection connected to his chronic bronchitis.
The Czech leader had planned stops in England and Scotland during the visit planned for November 7th11th. No new date has been set.
During the visit, Havel had been expected to discuss with Prime Minister Tony Blair the recent influx into Britain of Czech gypsies seeking asylum.
Havel appealed to gypsies, hundreds of whom have already have sought asylum in Canada and Britain in recent weeks, claiming racial discrimination, to reconsider the situation.