In brief: Cecilia keen to marry lover

France's former first lady Cecilia Sarkozy is said to be rushing ahead with wedding plans of her own, to long-time lover Richard Attias, after her ex-husband Nicolas married supermodel Carla Bruni... Vanity Fair magazine's annual Oscars night party - Hollywood's most glamorous and exclusive post-awards show event - has been cancelled in support of the writers' strike, despite the fact that the strike may soon be resolved...Amanda Mann, the wife of Simon Mann, the British mercenary believed to be jailed in Equatorial Guinea, has pleaded at the House of Lords for information on her husband's fate... Paul McCartney's former wife Heather Mills is counter-suing her former divorce lawyers Mishcon de Reya, whom she owes nearly £2m... England's new football captain Steven Gerrard and England rugby fly-half Jonny Wilkinson could be called to give evidence over an alleged scam involving the sale of bogus autographs and faked sports memorabilia... A 2007 visa ban preventing rap artist Snoop Dogg from entering the UK has been lifted... The late chess-playing legend Bobby Fischer is to be immortalised in a film, Bobby Fischer Goes to War, by the director of The Last King of Scotland, Kevin Macdonald... Respect MP George Galloway has been given a weekly slot on Press TV, an English 24-hour news channel set up by the Iranian government... Humphrey Bogart's mistress for nearly 20 years, actress Verita Thompson, has died in New Orleans aged 92...