EX FILM STAR Brigitte Bardot (61) has lashed out at a butcher for setting up a horse meat shop to profit from the mad cow scare, and called on Britons to show their "nobleness" and boycott the trade.
In "an open letter to the English people, to gentlemen and to those who have always protected and loved horses," she said she was horrified by the case of Bob Walker, who has set up one of the first horse meat shops in Britain since the second World War.
Former EastEnders star Letitia Dean has been fined £750 and disqualified from driving for 30 months after she pleaded guilty to driving with over twice the alcohol limit.
The actress, who played landlady Sharon Mitchell in the BBC soap, was stopped last March after police saw her car hit a kerb.
The pop group Oasis has avoided trouble in its first performance since a near riot in Vancouver during its North American tour. Extra police had to be drafted in after the group left the stage in protest.
But in Seattle, guitarist Noel Gallagher stamped down quickly on missile throwers at the start of the group's concert: Tony Morigi, of the radio station KNDD, said: "At the beginning of the show, a few people were throwing things on stage, but Noel cussed them out a bit and it stopped."