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Thursday July 3, 2008

In brief: Friends reunited for film?

Jennifer Aniston

Hoping to emulate the success of Sex And The City, the cast of Friends, among them Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer, are planning to reunite for a big-screen version of the comedy… Prince William has taken part in a major drug bust on his Royal Navy ship, HMS Iron Duke, in the Caribbean, seizing £40m worth of cocaine…The gravestone of Ian Curtis, who until his death in 1979 was the lead singer of Joy Division, has been "removed" from a cemetery in Macclesfield… A divorce lawyer acting for Christie Brinkley, the former supermodel, has revealed how her fourth husband, Peter Cook, spent almost £2,000 a month on online pornography and had an affair with a teenage employee… Tracey Emin is mourning the loss of one of her artworks: a life-size bronze of a bird called Roman Standard, which had sat on a four-metre pole outside the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool, has been stolen by thieves… Simon Jenkins, former editor of the Times, has been elected as the new chairman of the National Trust… Mel Galley, guitarist with the heavy metal band Whitesnake, has died of cancer aged 60… Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May have been criticised by the BBC Trust after viewers complained about "highly irresponsible" footage of them drinking while driving as they tried to reach the Magnetic North Pole last year... Kylie Minogue has been given her OBE by the Prince of Wales at a Buckingham Palace ceremony today… Alex James, the bass player with Blur who now produces cheese from his Oxfordshire farm, is about to expand his business with a little help from the Prince of Wales. The Prince's Duchy of Cornwall estate has offered the pop star the milk from all of its Ayrshire cattle. Says James: "This could be the biggest, poshest cheese the world has ever seen"...

FIRST POSTED JULY 3, 2008

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