In Brief: Kirsty denies glamour charge

Newsreader Kirsty Young (pictured) has posed for photos kicking her red stillettoes in the air while denying she was brought in to replace Fiona Bruce on BBC TV's Crimewatch to lend glamour to the programme... Veteran comedian Ken Dodd, 80, has cancelled several shows after undergoing treatment for a strangulated hernia at Royal Liverpool Hospital... Sir Anthony Hopkins spent £200,000 on a party to celebrate his 70th birthday with 200 guests at a stately home in Wales; among well-wishers were friends the actor had not seen since childhood... German police have confiscated the Ferrari belonging to Seif al-Arab, the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who is a student in Munich; they said the exhaust was too loud... Billionaire tax exile Mohammed Al Fayed was sent a P43 form (successor to the famous P45) by tax officials asking for his employment status at Harrods; a spokesman had to explain he is not technically an employee of the department store he owns...