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Wednesday August 20, 2008

In brief: Conrad Black recounts his career highlights to prisoners

Conrad Black

Conrad Black, or Prisoner No 18330-424 as he is known at the Coleman Correctional Center in Florida, appears to having a fairly relaxed time of it in jail, if this first photo from the prison is anything to go by. Black, 63, the former proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, is serving six-and-a-half years for fraud. He is said to occupy his time tutoring inmates in English three days a week and giving a 12-week course in American history. However, one former pupil says his favourite pastime is recounting his career accomplishments...Robert De Niro has travelled with his family to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, to attend a retrospective of his father’s paintings. Robert De Niro senior died of cancer aged 71 in 1993 and was an acclaimed abstract expressionist artist. The actor said: "The truth is that there is no painter like my father"...Paris Hilton is moving to London so she can appear in a show for ITV2 in which she will try to find the perfect British best friend…Anthony Head, who played the Prime Minister in BBC’s Little Britain and starred in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has failed to overturn a decision to build on a church graveyard in Hampshire where his grandmother is buried...

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