RED TOP REVIEW
Half of 'Brangelina'
UN ambassador and earth mother
Angelina Jolie is plastered all over The Sun this morning, as some 'friend' has made available footage of the star in her younger days, hanging out in a 'drugs den' as those around her smoke heroin.
Remember last week's incredible tale of the chef at the luxury Balbirnie Hotel in Fife who had faked his entire CV? Well, he has resigned, according to the Daily Record.
Marco Pierre White has branded 25-year-old James Stocks a 'Walter Mitty', with many of the other top chefs on his CV struggling to remember him even working for them.
Meanwhile, a far more interesting muse: 'Big Sue', whose portrait by Lucien Freud was sold to a mystery buyer last week for £17 million, has had her secret admirer revealed. According to the Daily Mirror,
Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich is the mystery bidder who set what is believed to be a record price for a work by a living artist.
SPORTThey think it's all over… but it's not until ThursdayBy Graham Bean
Killer Kris
It's win or bust for Rangers tonight, as they take on St Mirren at Love Street. With the extended Scottish Premier League season set for a nail-biting finale on Thursday night, the Ibrox side need a victory at Paisley to draw level with Celtic. They also need a few goals. Celtic's goal difference is seven better than their rivals', a potentially decisive advantage for Gordon Strachan's team.
Rangers have found goals hard to come by of late, so expect top scorer Kris Boyd to be unleashed from the start. St Mirren have nothing to play for, but are always well organised in defence.
Six weeks ago one bookmaker priced Rangers at 1-14 to win the league. Saturday's draw with Motherwell means it's now Celtic who are odds on to retain the title. But nothing will be settled until the final round of fixtures on Thursday, when Celtic take on Dundee United at Tannadice and Rangers travel to Pittodrie to face Aberdeen.
Tonight: St Mirren v Rangers (Setanta Sports 1 and Radio Scotland MW, 7.45pm)Fashion
Harrison-Flockhart
By Kayt Turner
They begged him to come back and do the movie, paid him millions for the privilege and then laid on an glittering star-studded gala screening of his film. So surely Harrison Ford, here with Calista Flockhart, might try and put a smile on his coupon.
Oldie Goldie?
Goldie, we know that you're adorable. But you're also a couple of hundred years old by now, so maybe it's time to drop the coquette act.
You must be Kid-ing
You've got to feel for those poor country-music gals. They pull out all the stops to look glitzier than their menfolk on awards night – and that ain't easy – and then Nicole Kidman turns up in a grey dustsheet and steals all the attention.
TELEVISION
Fergie and Titchmarsh get their hands dirty
By Fiona Leith
Fergie figures
She committed the worst crimes against fashion of the 1980s (which was going some), and made tabloid editors' dreams come true when she sucked the toes of her accountant-cum-suitor, but these days Fergie would rather be known as Britain's top flab fighter – and not just for herself, but for the common people too. The Duchess in Hull (ITV, 9pm) kicks off tonight with her ladyship meeting and moving in with a family of seven, hoping to fix their mind-set, body shape and diet all over the course of the programme.
Alan Titchmarsh's novels famously contain one of the most embarrassing sex scenes ever written, but tonight, thankfully, he shares an altogether safer passion with us. Gardening, according to Titchmarsh, is "a very religious experience, as well as being a sensual".
Check out Green Fingers and Co tonight as the live coverage of this year's Chelsea Flower Show continues on BBC2 (8pm).
BUSINESSFalling house prices, rising interest in YahooBy Will Lyons
House prices could tumble by 7% over the next year as the credit crunch continues to bite, according to the latest bleak forecast from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. On top of that, it warns that house sales will drop 40% this year, unless the shortage of mortgages eases. The housing market slowdown could in turn cause an 8% fall in consumer spending.
Do you Yahoo!?!?
Microsoft has made a fresh approach to Yahoo about a deal to combine part of their online businesses. After being rebuffed by Yahoo earlier this month, Microsoft's proposal will stop short of a full acquisition of the internet media company.
INTERNET
Website of the day: scrol.gov.uk
By Murdo MacLeod
A sensible website, but gripping nonetheless. This site allows you to get all the census data for local areas all over Scotland and compare your neck of the woods to the Scottish average and to everywhere else. Find out the healthiest, the smartest and the wealthiest parts of the country. And find out how your postcode compares to the rest of the nation.
The On Switch
Palm Pilots live on, but will you?
By Murdo MacLeod
BARGAIN OF THE WEEK
They were the future once. PDAs, or personal digital assistants, combined address books, notes, calculators and all manner of functions in a little computer that could be slipped in a jacket pocket. The most famous of them, the Palm Pilot, was once the hippest gadget around, but the problem came when phones turned smart and did all those things as well as being phones.
Many users still argue that Palm devices have their plus points, and for those of you who still have them it is worth knowing that some Palm games are now being offered for free. Check them out at: pdamill.com and www.ellams.com
GADGET WATCH
Taking its cue from those internet sites which advise us how long we'll live depending on the answers to a couple of dozen questions, the
Life Index Watch will constantly remind you how much time you have left on this earth. It's a concept developed for a Timex competition that keeps track of your remaining days based on personal biometrics such as heart rhythm, body fat and stress levels. And just to make sure you don't forget, it's meant to be worn like a patch on the skin. The product is still in development, but it might just be the lifestyle choice of the future.
The full article contains 1094 words and appears in Scotland On Sunday newspaper.
