Oasis went ahead with a Glasgow concert last night, although their gig in the city ended in chaos on Sunday after the band stormed off stage when a missile was thrown. A plastic bottle hit the guitar played by Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs, and Liam Gallagher told the crowd: "We're not standing for it. Good night."
Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed did not attend a premiere performance of the Nut- cracker by the English National Ballet last night because of his grief for Princess Diana and his son Dodi. His spokesman Michael Cole said Mr AlFayed had decided the event - staged 100 days after the couple died in a car crash in Paris - would be "too emotionally draining".
The Spice Girls are losing out to the Teletubbies in the battle to fill Britain's Christmas stockings. The expected round-the-block queues failed to materialise when Spice Girls dolls went on sale at Selfridges yesterday. Meanwhile, sales of SpiceWorld: The Official Book of The Movie, are poor.
Jazz musician George Chisholm (82) has died in hospital in Milton Keynes. Chisholm, who was born in Glasgow, played the trombone in several popular jazz bands and made records with leading British and US artists, including Sandy Brown and Wild Bill Davison.
Santa Claus is nursing a black eye after being pelted with water bombs during a Christmas parade in New Zealand. In 1991 in the same town of Kaikohe, he was kicked on the shins by children shouting "mean old bastard" when he ran out of sweets to distribute.