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Tuesday August 12, 2008

In brief: Pietersen barred from Mahiki

W G Grace might have gone home for an early night, or to count his money. But Kevin Pietersen, the new England cricket captain, went straight out on the town to celebrate victory over South Africa at The Oval. With his wife, Jessica Taylor, singer with Liberty X, he descended on London's Mahiki nightclub, a haunt of Princes William and Harry - only to be turned away, the London Evening Standard says, because it was 'student night'... George Galloway, the hard-Left Respect MP, has inadvertently caused London's only Jewish radio station to close. Galloway sued Jcom for libel after a presenter broadcast a spoof of a character called 'Georgie Galloway' who used the catchphrase 'Kill the Jews, Kill the Jews'. Only 36 people were listening at the time, and the station sacked the presenter, describing him as "young and inexperienced", and apologised - but Galloway was awarded £15,000 damages at the High Court and the station says it cannot continue... In Spain, a 56-year-old woman claiming to be Salvador Dali's illegitimate daughter says she may seek the exhumation of the artist's body so that DNA samples can be taken. Though Dali was not known as a womaniser, the complainant, who cannot be identified, says that her mother worked as a maid for his family one summer. Dali's descendants are resisting the claim, though the woman says that when she met Robert Descharnes, who is in charge of the artist's estate, he commented on a close resemblance. He is supposed to have said: "You are only missing the moustache."

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