In brief: Roddick leaves £51m in will
Dame Anita Roddick's will, which was published on Tuesday, has revealed that the Bodyshop founder (pictured) gave away her £51m fortune to various charities, as well as the taxman... Naomi Campbell’s bid to give blood to help the people of Rio de Janeiro against a dengue fever epidemic was quashed yesterday when medical centre officials turned the supermodel away, because she had had surgery in February to remove a cyst... Gordon Brown had to fly to meet the President of the United States in a bog-standard 757 charter plane, now dubbed “BrownForce None”, because no British Airways aircraft was available…Germany’s former chancellor Helmut Kohl is to marry his partner Maike Richter, a 43-year-old economist who is 35 years his junior… The final bill for the inquest into Princess Diana’s death is likely to top more than £12.5m, once the cost of the inquest’s final days are added… The RAF has defended its decision to allow Prince William to fly an RAF Chinook helicopter to take him and his brother Prince Harry to a stag party on the Isle of Wight, saying it was a legitimate training run… The Harry Potter fan, Steve Vander Ark, accused of copyright theft of JK Rowling’s book series broke down in court on Tuesday; earlier the author herself had been close to tears while giving testimony….
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