POLAND's ex president Lech Walesa yesterday took over a modest office at the Gdansk headquarters of the Solidarity union he led to its 1989 victory over communism.
Walesa, defeated by ex communist Aleksander Kwasniewski in November presidential polls, said he did not want any post in the union, but would focus on rallying the divided opposition groups into a broad based "Lech's Team" to fight parliamentary elections next year.
Sculptor Henry Moores daughter Mary renewed her legal battle in London yesterday to gain control of some of her father's work.
She and her mother helped the sculptor set up the charitable Henry Moore Foundation in 1976 to safeguard and promote appreciation of his work and others. A year later, and until his death aged 88 in 1986, Henry Moore became an employee of the foundation's trading arm, HMF Enterprises, because of his worries over tax liabilities.
Lord Irvine QC, representing Ms Moore (48), told the Court of Appeal "This is a dispute over the ownership of a number of works of art produced by Henry Moore from 1977 to his death in 1986."
Samantha Fox has been refused permission to perform at the annual function of the Central Excise Athletic Club in Calcutta.
News reports quoted a government spokesman as describing Fox's stage performances as "undignified".
Thomas Muster is keeping his mind on court at the Australian open tennis championships in Melbourne and putting a damper on reports of a romance with the Duchess of York.
The Austrian was a seat mate last week on a flight from Qatar to Australia with the Duchess, but that's all his coach Ronnie Leitgeb said.
Brigitte Bardot has taken up the cause of foxes on land owned by the National Trust for Scotland.
In a letter to Scotland's leading conservation body, the 61 year old former international film star criticised it for reversing a decision to ban fox hunting on 500 acres of land in Fife.