In brief: Sophie Dahl writes cookery book

Supermodel Sophie Dahl (pictured), the grand-daughter of children's author Roald Dahl, is to publish a cookery-cum-slimming book; called Miss Dahl’s Voluptuous Delights, the former plus-size model says it will be "a memoir about food, a recipe book that gets over the message that you don't have to starve yourself to be reasonably skinny"… London mayor Boris Johnson has promised to be more careful after the StopAtRed cyclists' campaign condemned his bike skills – he was followed by a reporter on the Sunday Mirror who saw him sail through six red lights, fail to stop at a zebra crossing and mount a pavement in the course of a single journey to work last week... The Duchess of York has revealed that she plans to re-settle in Britain after living the last 12 years in America… Cherie Blair's book Speaking For Myself has come under fire from the medical profession after she revealed that her son Leo did in fact have the MMR jab, something Mrs Blair refused to confirm or deny while her husband was in office on the grounds of privacy; Dr Rod Griffiths, former president of the Faculty of Public Health, says: "At the time we were struggling to change people's minds about the safety of the vaccine. Now she is saying 'yes'. So when did Leo lose his right to privacy? Has she asked him if it is all right to say he had it?"...