HOLLYWOOD star Sean Connery yesterday spoke of the impact which the Dunblane tragedy had had on him, as he prepared to show his new children's film, Dragonheart.
Connery (65), in his home town of Edinburgh for the film's international premiere, said he had kept a press cutting with a photograph of the children and their teacher who were shot dead on March 13th.
He also said he wants to buy a house in Scotland, and that Scottish independence could not come soon enough.
The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, has won a court injunction preventing publication of a kiss and tell book about her relationship with American businessman John Bryan.
She has been granted an injunction against Allan Starkie's proposed book, Fergie: her secret life.
The British Nobel physicist, Sir Nevill Mott, whose work helped pave the way for the modern information society, has died at the age of 90.
The former Cambridge professor won the Nobel prize in 1977 for his work on semiconductors.
Hollywood legend Olivia de Havilland is backing a £350,000 British training appeal in memory of her aviation pioneer cousin.
The actress, the last surviving major star from Gone With The Wind, is one of the vice patrons of the appeal in honour of former test pilot and aircraft designer Sir Geoffrey de Havilland.