Ian Holm (62), the actor kept away from the theatre for 15 years by stage fright, has won British theatre's Best Actor award, the Olivier award, for his electrifying portrayal of Shakespeare's King Lear.
Zoe Wanamaker beat Judi Dench to win the Best Actress award for her role in Sophocles' Electra.
Prince Charles has highlighted the problems of homelessness in an article for the Big Issue. He said he was struck by the problems of the homeless when he met former school friend Clive Harold during a visit to the Big Issue offices in December.
The Duchess of York, apparently in good form despite an arm injury at the weekend, hit the ski slopes with her two daughters, Princess Eugenie and Princess Be- atrice, at the western Swiss resort of Verbier yesterday.
The oldest member of the British parliament, life peer Lord Granville of Eye, has died just two days after his 100th birthday.
Lord Granville, a Gallipoli veteran, was a Liberal MP from 1929 to 1951. He had been mistaken about his own age for most of his life, and until recently it had been thought that the oldest peer was Lord Denning (99).