In brief: Jolie and Pitt sell baby snaps for £7m

Has birthing ever been so profitable? Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Hollywood's current golden couple, have just signed a reported £7m deal for the first pictures of their new twins, Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon, who were born on July 12 in France. The desperate buyers? People magazine in the US and Hello! in the UK. At least the couple will be giving the money to charity... The twin evils of the credit crunch and health police have not deterred the former Tory MP Winston Churchill from launching a new range of cigars in honour of his more famous grandfather, the wartime leader with the bulldog spirit who smoked like the proverbial chimney. They are named after places associated with Churchill Snr, such as Blenheim, Chequers and Number 10. A box of 25 Blenheims will cost the keen smoker £275, reports the Sunday Times... The 'dirty bed' artist Tracey Emin has just turned 45 and has become a Grumpy Old Woman. She tells the Sunday Telegraph: "Every art gallery wants my stuff, and every party wants me to be there. But not a single man has ever wanted to have my children." Of her birthday party, a dinner for 100 friends, she says: "The evening was a huge success for everyone apart from me who might as well not have been there. I was so upset about getting old and turning 45." She also disclosed that Docket, her beloved cat who appears in some of her drawings, has recently contracted feline HIV... Fans of Richard Curtis's romantic movie Notting Hill are being offered a big dollop of film history - the flat above the travel bookshop in NH's Blenheim Crescent where Hugh Grant's character first meets Julia Roberts. Neither the actual shop nor flat actually featured in the film - the intimate interior and the blue frontage were rebuilt on set - but Curtis, who lives around the corner, was inspired to create the story of the humble bookseller and famous actress after visiting it. The London Evening Standard reports that the flat's owner, Sarah Anderson, 61, who opened the business in 1981, says that she is never bothered by the thousands of film fans who make a pilgrimage to the shop. The flat is for sale at £899,950