THE Sex Pistols, formed in 1976 to bury the dinosaurs of the rock industry, have leaped back on the revival bandwagon by announcing they are regrouping for a "20th anniversary" world tour.
A punk band that terrified middle class Britain with its foul language and iconoclasm, the Sex Pistols were remarkably honest about the reasons for their comeback. "Your money," said lead singer Johnny Rotten.
Guitarist Sid Vicious, who took over from Glen Matlock as the group became famous, died from a heroin overdose in the late 1970s in New York. The band's original motto was "No Future" and their last album in 1980 was called Flogging a Dead Horse.
Now the four original members - Johnny Rotten, Paul Cook, Steve Jones and Glen Matlock - have a string of dates across western and central Europe and a six week summer, tour in the US, and a live album is also to be released by Virgin Records.
Broadcaster Michael Parkinson (61) is to present a new weekend show for Radio 2. The chat show host will take charge of a two hour news, views and music programme, Paskinson on Sunday, on Sunday mornings from March 31st.
A low budget barnyard fable from Australia, Babe, has proved that pigs can fly at least when it comes to Oscar time. It has also been nominated for best picture and six other categories for the Academy Awards on March 25th. But there are no obvious frontrunners. The nominees for best picture include Apollo 13 and Braveheart, the poetic Italian work Il Postino, and Sense and Sensibility.
Thirteen renowned chefs, most from restaurants with the highest ranking three Michelin stars, have just cooked their first kosher meal according to stringent Jewish dietary laws forbidding mixing meat and dairy products and prohibiting foods such as shellfish and pork.
The chefs, from France, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, the US and South Africa, last night prepared King David's Feast, celebrating the 3,000th anniversary of King David's declaration of Jerusalem as his capital.
An English girl who put a message in a bottle and threw it into the sea was astounded to receive a reply three years later from half way round the world. The bottle launched by Vicki Thomas (now 11), at Bognor Regis, travelled 16,000 km (9,900 miles) to Geraldton in Western Australia, where it was picked up by Andrew Fitch (29), the Sun newspaper reported.