BRITISH TV's Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan were yesterday cleared of being unfair to O.J. Simpson by television watchdogs.
The controversial Simpson, interview on their show Tonight last month had been "rigorous but fair although not particularly enlightening", the Independent Television Commission said. Six viewers had complained.
The Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Elizabeth's consort, celebrated his 75th birthday yesterday by opening an exhibition dedicated to his half century of public life.
He inaugurated the collection of letters, photographs and memorabilia at Windsor Castle which chart his various public appearances and contributions to public life since he married Princess Elizabeth in 1947, five years before she acceded to the throne.
President Ernesto Samper of Colombia, who faces possible impeachment for drug corruption, received an invitation from a powerful drug lord to attend the wedding of his daughter, according to a local television news programme.
TV Hoy said Samper and his wife had once received an invitation from a leader of the Cal cartel to attend the wedding. A special army and police team found the guest list amid a stack of documents it had seized following the arrest of Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela in June 1995.
British Home Secretary Michael Howard's reputation as a right winger has taken a shuddering blow - as it emerged he once played guitar in a skiffle group . . . and was approached as a likely recruit by the SDP.
The revelations come in an interview in the Daily Telegraph in which Howard admitted that in the late 1960s and early 1970s "most people were rather sort of liberal on social issues, and I was too". Howard stresses: "I think I've changed."
Cherie Booth, wife of British Labour leader Tony Blair, has started work as an assistant recorder, the first rung on the ladder to becoming a judge.