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Monday May 26, 2008

In brief: Wogan fed up with Eurovision

Terry Wogan has threatened to quit his annual coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest for the BBC unless something is done to stop the "fix" in which Eastern European countries vote for each other with no regard to musical quality... Amid mounting speculation that she and Prince William are to announce their engagement, Kate Middleton is reported to be asking people to call her Catherine, not Kate... David Miliband, hot favourite to replace Gordon Brown as Labour leader if and when the time comes, attended the Hay literary festival dressed in jeans and a cagoule... Former US President Jimmy Carter was at Hay too, urging the US and Iran to be friends - despite the trouble the Iranians caused him when 52 US diplomats were held hostage for over a year during his administration... The photographer Cornell Capa has died at 90; he founded the International Centre of Photography in New York, partly to house the archive of his more famous older brother, Robert Capa... Watch out, Cannes - Catherine Zeta-Jones has agreed to become patron of the Swansea Film Festival, which opens next weekend... Amy Winehouse has denied a report in the Jewish Chronicle that she is set to travel to Israel for drug treatment at the Barzilai Medical Centre in Ashkelon... A 76-year-old Nepalese climber, Min Bahadur Sherchan, became the oldest man to scale Everest on Sunday, a day after British adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes failed in his latest bid to reach the summit...

FIRST POSTED MAY 26, 2008

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