The editor of the London Independent and Independent on Sunday titles, Rosie Boycott, has left for another newspaper group after only three months in the job.
Boycott will become senior editor of the Express and Express on Sunday, it was announced yesterday. The Independent titles came under the full control of Tony O'Reilly's Irish group of Independent Newspapers last month.
Former editor Andrew Marr returned to the paper last month and was supposed to be sharing editorship with Boycott. She was the first woman editor of a British broadsheet newspaper.
Imelda Marcos, widow of the former Philippines dictator, complained that journalists had turned her into a figure of fun and warned that there was a special place in Hell for her tormentors.
"I'm not a joke. The local press has become so biased that if I were put in the newspapers it's because they want to ridicule me. . . why am I being laughed at?" she asked reporters. "Remember, there is a special place in Hell for those who deprive widows and orphans."
A French orchestra is to sue agents of Luciano Pavarotti for dropping it from a planned concert because it was allegedly too expensive. The National Orchestra of Lyons announced the move after negotiations with the three agents fell through at the eleventh hour.
Orchestra director Patrice Armengau said it would sue the agents in France and the US for "breach of commitment, false publicity and parasitical behaviour".