The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and his family arrived yesterday in Cordoba, Spain, to be welcomed by the Spanish guitarist, Paco Pena.
Relaxing in Spain at the invitation of Spanish Prime Minister, Jose-Maria Aznar, after helping secure the peace accord for Northern Ireland, Blair along with his wife, Cherie, and three children is a guest of Pena and his wife. The Blair family spent Friday and Saturday with Aznar in Andalusia, southern Spain.
Doctors treating actor Rik Mayall for serious head injuries suffered in a quad-bike crash said today they were "happy with his progress" in hospital.
The 39-year-old comedian's wife Barbara said on the third day of her bedside vigil: "We think he is okay." Mayall was yesterday still under sedation and in a stable condition in intensive care at Plymouth's Derriford Hospital.
He was flown unconscious to the hospital by police helicopter after the accident at the family's remote country retreat in south Devon on Thursday evening.
Singer George Michael, detained last week for alleged "lewd behaviour" in a Los Angeles public toilet, last night made a £50,000 donation to a radio appeal for a children's charity.
His elder sister Melanie phoned London station Capital Radio to disclose his cash gift, adding: "He's a very nice man, you know." She then requested a tune from the star's latest album, Older, called "Move On".