In brief: Heather Mills awarded £24.3m

Heather Mills has been awarded £24.3m in her divorce settlement with Sir Paul McCartney... Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the call-girl who brought down New York governor Eliot Spitzer, could make around $5m from the sex scandal following $1m offers from Hustler and Penthouse to pose nude, a six-figure offer for a vodka advertisement, plus $600,000 earnings from downloads from her music websiteas well as TV and sponsorship deals... Actress Halle Berry has become a mother for the first time at 41 after giving to a baby girl in Los Angeles on Sunday… The Broadway singer and TV actress Kristin Chenoweth has pulled out of the English National Opera's June revival of Leonard Bernstein's Candide citing TV filming commitments "due to the resolution of the writers' strike"; Chenowith, a former Tony Award winner who starred in The West Wing and is currently appearing in Pushing Daisies, will be replaced by American soprano Anna Christy... Nelson Mandela and photographer Mario Testino are due to be painted by Chris Levine, the artist best known for his 2004 holographic portrait of the Queen; but for political reasons the artist does not want Gordon Brown to sit for him... The funeral of former ITN newsreader Carol Barnes, who died last weekend after suffering a stroke, will be held today... Heather Mills is reported to "seriously considering" an appeal over the £25m divorce deal with Sir Paul McCartney, due to be announced today... Prince Charles is opening his own shop 'Highgrove' on Tetbury High Street in Wiltshire today; it will sell organic carrots, breakfast bowls painted with images of the royal hens and the same brand of Lebanese soap as used by the Prince himself...