THE Spice Girls will host a 50-minute Christmas special for the BBC, it was announced last night.
Britain's top-selling group will sing solo and together, tell jokes and appear with a top-name cast of show business personalities in the programme.
It will coincide with, the release of Spice: The Movie.
Britain's National Trust has won a £47,500 National Lottery grant to help restore Paul McCartney's former council house home, where the Beatles were "born".
The terraced house in Allerton, Liverpool, which is owned by the National Trust will be opened to visitors next year.
Four women have been shortlisted for the £20,000 Turner Prize, for the first time in the award's history.
The shortlisted artists are Cornelia Parker, Gillian Wearing, Christine Borland and Angela Bulloch.
Movie stars Brad Pitt (32) and Gwyneth Paltrow (24) have broken off their engagement, newspapers reported yesterday.
Pitt, star of the recently released The Devils Own, and Paltrow, who made a splash in last year's Emma, had been expected to marry shortly, the Daily News and New York Post reported.