Tina Turner's The Best gets more people dancing in Britain than Wannabe by the Spice Girls, according to a new survey. A survey by the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles of 1,200 people aged between 18 and 55 found that the Prodi- gy's Firestarter beat Wannabe into third place on the list of top ten dance floor favourites.
Fourth came the veteran dance floor track I Will Sur- vive, by Gloria Gaynor, followed by Dancing Queen by ABBA.
The Spice Girls are to spend 10 months a year outside Britain to avoid tax bills. They will save up to £32 million by living abroad. They are said to be looking for second homes in Geneva.
Helmut Kohl and Penthouse have agreed on an out-of-court settlement after the German chancellor took the soft-porn magazine to court over publication of a caricature showing his wife as a pin-up girl.
A spokesman for the chancellery said the Petri publishing house and the magazine's chief editors assured Kohl they never intended to publicly insult either the chancellor or his wife.
Sir Jimmy Savile (70) is up and running, and will take part in the Great Scottish Half Marathon tomorrow, just nine days after major heart surgery.
Doctors say the broadcaster has forced them to rewrite the rule book for patients recovering from quadruple heart bypasses.
Shirley MacLaine has written to the Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, after falling asleep during his foreign policy speech in New York last month. All eyes focused not on Howard's words, or an award he received for foreign service, but on MacLaine's head nodding in repose. The moment was captured on camera, as was MacLaine's lack of enthusiasm when Howard waved his medal under her nose as he took his place beside her at the table.