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PAULA YATES remained tight lipped yesterday after a private High Court bearing on a divorce settlement with ex husband Bob Geldof…

PAULA YATES remained tight lipped yesterday after a private High Court bearing on a divorce settlement with ex husband Bob Geldof.

"It's family proceedings and I can't talk about it", she told reporters. Geldof (41) was represented by lawyers but was not in court for the 35 minute hearing.

Ms Yates (36) and the former Boomtown Rats singer were divorced two weeks ago, but a detailed settlement - believed to relate to money and property - is still to be thrashed out.

Zambia's parliament has passed a Bill that will ban, former president Kenneth Kaunda, from contesting elections later this year.

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The Amendment Bill sets conditions for presidential candidates that rule, out Kaunda, his party deputy, and possibly a third contender, Zambia Democratic Congress, (ZADECO) leader Dean, Mungomba.

It will become law once it has been signed by Kaunda's rival, President Frederick Chiluba, whose Movement for MultiParty Democracy ousted Kaunda's UNIP in elections in 1991.

Larry Fortensky, the construction worker who became Elizabeth Taylor's seventh husband, is asking the movie star for more support as they await their divorce.

In a motion in Los Angeles Superior Court, Fortensky said that when they split this year, he moved out of the mansion the couple shared in Bel Air and was living in a rented home.

He was living on "bare expenses" of $5,000 a month, that Taylor was paying him.

The romantic life of Roy Jenkins, former Labour Cabinet Minister and one of the founders of the SDP, is to feature in a BBC 2 documentary.

It alleges that as a married man he had a number of affairs with "high born women" including Jacqueline Kennedy's sister, Princess Lee Radzwill, according to the Times.

The programme A Very Social Democrat, to be screened next Sunday, claims the affair with Lee developed while Lord Jenkins's political star was rising in the 1960s.

The late John Lennon's son Sean has offered half brother Julian a musical collaboration as be and his mother Yoko Ono launched their own joint tour in London.

Sean (20) said he would happily record with Julian (31) son of the Beatle's first wife, Cynthia. "He's my brother, so yes, I would love to", Sean said.