A beauty queen stripped of her title amid rival allegations of religious bias and rigged voting is to represent Croatia after all at this year's Miss World beauty pageant, the organiser said yesterday. Lejla Sehovic (22) was Miss Croatia for five days before having her title removed and being subjected to a humiliating second ballot in which she was beaten by the contest's original runner-up, Ivana Petkovic (17).
Former newspaper chief Kelvin MacKenzie is to take over Talk Radio in a £15.5 million deal after winning control of the national station yesterday. MacKenzie is head of a consortium which includes backing from Rupert Murdoch's News International group.
BBC1 is this morning to stage a four-hour tribute to Cliff Richard, now fighting to have his latest single played on local radio.
Called Stand Up For Sir Cliff, it will include phone-ins, quizzes, classic Cliff clips and interviews and is seen as a cunning ploy by the BBC to win the affection of the daytime audience.
The next Inspector Morse book will be the last - if author Colin Dexter (66) ever finishes writing it.
"I just don't get much of a chance to make much progress. I go out so often," he said yesterday.
Brigitte Bardot may travel to the north-east of Scotland in a attempt to save the life of Woofie, the dog sentenced to die, it emerged yesterday. Woofie came to the attention of the authorities after she chased and barked at a postman, though she did not bite him. Bardot's lawyers said she was willing to do whatever she could to help.