The British royal family will continue to live and work at Buckingham Palace, officials said yesterday. A report that Queen Elizabeth had been advised to give up the palace was "complete rubbish", a spokesman said.
The report claimed that long-term plans to turn Buckingham Palace over to the nation as a "People's Palace" were being discussed in some royal circles.
Flamboyant former Tory MP and minister, Edwina Currie, yesterday announced she was splitting from her husband, Ray, after 25 years of marriage.
Mrs Currie, one of the most colourful figures in the last parliament, said in a statement the decision to separate would be with "immediate effect". "The parting is amicable and no other party is involved," the statement added.
Following the break up, Mrs Currie, (50), will live in London while her husband will remain in the family home in Derbyshire.
The family of a Sioux Indian chief who died in Britain more than 100 years ago have arrived in London to return his remains to his native America. Chief Long Wolf, whose bullet-scarred body bore testament to his part in the Indians' fight against the US Cavalry and frontiersmen, died in London while working as a performer in Col "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West show at Earl's Court in 1892. He died from pneumonia and his body was buried by Col Cody at Brompton cemetery.
Lord Tonypandy, former Speaker of the House of Commons from 1976 to 1983, died yesterday aged 88 from cancer. He died in his home city of Cardiff.