In brief: Gordon Brown heads to the seaside

Gordon Brown (pictured with his wife, Sarah) is again eschewing the lavish summer holiday locations enjoyed by the Blairs. Last year he tried Dorset, but had to return to London after only a day on the beach because of the flooding crisis; this summer he’s taking his wife and two young sons to the seaside town of Southwold in Suffolk, considerably closer to London should he feel the need to return to Downing Street…Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff had his set unceremoniously cut short at London’s free Rise Fesitval on Sunday. After 35 minutes of Cliff’s playing, event organisers decided that they didn’t want the concert to continue past the 8.35 curfew and so cut off the sound mid-song... Summing up in the Max Mosley breach of privacy hearing, Mark Warby, QC for the News of the World, said the S&M orgy in which Mosley was clandestinely filmed taking part was "truly grotesque and depraved", and asked: "If it was not meant to be Nazi, then what on earth was it meant to be?" Mosley’s QC will make his case on Tuesday... Hiroaki “Rocky” Aoki, Japanese Olympic wrestler and multi-millionaire founder of the Benihana chain of restaurants, has died of pneumonia aged 69. The flamboyant Aoki went to America in 1960 and drove an ice-cream truck seven days a week to save up enough money to open his first Benihana four years later...