In Brief: Depp donates £1m to hospital

Johnny Depp has made a surprise visit to Great Ormond Street children's hospital to donate £1m to thank staff for saving the life of his eight-year-old daughter Lily Rose, who was treated there last March for kidney failure. Two months ago Depp, dressed in his Pirates of the Caribbean costume, spent four hours at the hospital telling bedtime stories to young patients... The 'lads' magazine Loaded has been accused of bad taste after including Kate McCann, the mother of missing four-year-old Madeleine, on a list of "unlikely" sex symbols... Former Eurythmics frontwoman Annie Lennox has been dropped by her record label; her last album, Songs of Mass Destruction, reached number seven in October... Minimalist artist Martin Creed, who won the Turner Prize in 2001 for a work entitled The Lights Going On and Off, has been named as the first artist invited to fill Tate Britain's Duveen galleries for what will become an annual commission... Muhammad Ali, Spike Lee, Woody Harrelson, Sylvester Stallone and Gus Van Sant are among the celebrities who may be asked to appear as character witniesses in actor Wesley Snipes's tax fraud and conspiracy trial which began in Florida yesterday...