royal wedding

The London underground, or “tube”, carried a reported 1.1 billion riders last year. London buses (where everyone, including hardened Londoners loves to sit in the front row on the top floor of a double-decker) carried 2.2 billion people. The best, and cheapest, way to use both services is a smart card called an Oyster. Basically, you buy (actually, rent) the card for £5, then buy credit on top of that and every time you swipe the card, getting on/off the tube or bus, your credit is reduced. Everyone loves their Oyster.

In today’s news: Kate and William get fruity; the things we regret; tensions in New Dehli; womb transplants; and the camel toe – solved.

Not since Monica Lewinsky, has an ordinary dress, worn by an ordinary girl, attracted so much attention.

With the recent backlash against Nelly Furtado and Beyoncé for accepting millions from Gaddafi, you’d think there would be a long line-up of entertainment mercenaries angling to belt it out at the royal wedding — if only to try and polish their tarnished reputations. According to my sources at the Palace, however, disgraced pop divas need not apply.

When I was a kid, my parents had a lot of books. Most of the "A-list" publications were in bookshelves on the main floor of our house but the odd, orphan publications always found their way to an old, green painted bookshelf in the basement, where they gathered dust with the National Geographics.