ENGLISH soccer stars Bruce Grobbelaar, John Fashanu and Hans Segers go on trial today for the second time on charges of conspiring to fix English premier league matches in the most sensational British case of its kind for 30 years.
Their first trial, which lasted for eight weeks and was estimated to have cost £1 million, ended in anti-climax on March 4th when the jury failed to reach a verdict on any of the charges. Prosecutors decided two days later on a retrial.
Zimbabwean-born Grobbelaar, fellow goalkeeper Segers, and retired striker Fashanu, as well as Malaysian businessman Heng Suan Lim, all deny the charges.
US singer Bob Dylan was back home yesterday after being hospitalised for a week for a potentially fatal lung disease, a spokesman for Columbia Records said.
"I'm just glad to be feeling better," Dylan said in a statement released on Monday. "I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon." Dylan cancelled a tour of Britain and Switzerland and was hospitalised with chest pains on May 25th - one day after his 56th birthday.
He was reportedly treated for histoplasmosis, a fungal infection of the lungs which, in turn, had been caused by a pericarditis, an inflammation of the sac surrounding the heart.
Jazz trumpeter Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, who played with such legends as Benny Goodman and Billie Holiday and later had a long solo career, died on Monday from a stroke. He was 91. He died at George Washington University Hospital.
Cheatham recently released an album with Nicholas Payton, a 23-year-old trumpet player from New Orleans, entitled Doe Cheatham & Nicholas Payton and he completed a three-night stand at Blues Alley in Washington on Saturday night.