Sir Mark Potter, sitting with Lord Justice Thorpe and Lord Justice Wilson at the Court of Appeal, made their comments as they ordered John Charman, an insurance underwriter, to pay £48 million to his former wife, Beverley - the biggest divorce payment in British legal history.
Beverley Charman, 54, told The Times: “I would definitely have one now and I would advise my sons to have them. But at the time we married we had no expectation of money.”
And while she may have secured a £48 million divorce settlement, Mrs Charman was not celebrating after her victory yesterday. Speaking at the offices of Manches, her lawyers in London, she said: “I am just relieved it is all over. Of course I am pleased with the result but it has been an incredibly difficult and painful 3½ years.”
The new advice radically revises existing guidelines, which say that women can drink up to two units once or twice a week. Fiona Adshead, the deputy chief medical officer, said that the change was meant to send “a strong signal” to the thousands of women who drank more than the recommended limit that they were putting their babies at risk. But she admitted that it was not in response to any new medical evidence.
Not as imminent as it needs to be. But after three big sets of government proposals in the space of four days, the road to the energy-saving home which is sustainable as well as comfortable is certainly clearer than it was.
White Papers on planning and energy (plus a new strategy for waste disposal) have this week all set out ways of making Britain's housing stock much more environmentally friendly.
Not before time. Although most of the attention in the fight against climate change is focused on greenhouse gas emissions from power stations, motor vehicles and aircraft, emissions from buildings are hugely significant - as the Government's chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, is constantly keen to point out.
Minutes obtained by the Guardian of a meeting held on July 13 1983 reveal that the Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM) knew that "patients who repeatedly receive blood clotting-factor concentrates appear to be at risk" of Aids.
They also knew that the risks were highest if the blood products came "from the blood of homosexual and IV drug users in areas of high incidence - eg New York and California" and for those who repeatedly received high doses of the blood plasma products. Despite this, the committee ruled that the risk of contracting Aids had to be balanced against the "life-saving" benefits of their use to haemophiliacs. They also argued that withdrawing the blood products was "not feasible on the grounds of supply".
The charges will be introduced to deter those who try to dodge the impact of strict rubbish quotas at home.
FAMILIES will be hit with £50 fines for failing to recycle rubbish under a new Government drive to cut waste.
They will also be offered new lockable dustbins to combat the threat of “waste wars” with cheats dumping excess rubbish on neighbours.Ministers yesterday promised cash rewards – such as cuts in council tax – for families that join local schemes to reduce the amount of refuse dumped in landfill sites. But critics last night accused the Government of using “bullying” tactics and providing the cover for yet another round of stealth taxation. Local councils complained that ministers were not providing enough cash to pay for recycling, raising fears of soaring council tax bills in years to come.
The financial incentives will be offered by local authorities to people who are the greenest with their waste.
Householders will be encouraged to recycle glass, plastic, paper, cardboard and textiles - as well as leftover food collected in "slop boxes" so it can be turned into compost.
The bitter dispute emerged as C4 bosses were yesterday ordered to make three grovelling on-screen apologies over the Celebrity Big Brother race row.
TV watchdog Ofcom slammed the broadcaster for "serious errors of judgment" and said it had covered up more disgusting racist attacks on Shilpa Shetty by Jade Goody and her brainless cohorts.
Police are poised to reopen their files after the broadcaster said that previously unseen footage showing contestants making up a racist limerick had not been handed to investigators.
Transcripts of the footage are now being passed to Hertfordshire Police, who will examine the new evidence.
The footage is said to show Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd, Jo O'Meara and Goody's boyfriend Jack Tweed making up a racist limerick about Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty which made reference to the racial slur "Paki".
Penny Campbell, a journalist and mother, died during the Easter weekend of 2005 after eight doctors working for Camidoc, a private company which covers GPs across a large area of north London, failed to spot symptoms of septicaemia. By the time Ms Campbell was admitted to hospital on Easter Monday, the blood poisoning she had contracted following treatment for haemorrhoids five days earlier had begun to overwhelm her system. She died from multiple organ failure 24 hours later.
It found that Miss Campbell, of Islington, North London, was forced to recount her symptoms because each of her calls to doctors were treated as an individual “episode”. One doctor, Dr Chuah, told her that she “wouldn’t be talking to me like this” if she was seriously ill.
Similar international studies have shown that crime reporting in advance of a trial has little effect on jurors in even the most sensational cases.
Lord Goldsmith, who has often intervened during high-profile cases, and, most recently, was criticised for seeking injunctions in the cash for honours affair, also suggested he would look to provide more details to the media following high-profile arrests. He said he favoured examining whether the state could be "more open about such cases in a controlled and considered basis" in order to mitigate against selective leaks and unduly sensational reporting.
The home secretary, John Reid, made clear yesterday he is prepared to declare a "state of emergency" to suspend key parts of the human rights convention if the law lords do not overturn a series of judgments that have weakened the anti-terrorist control order regime.
His warning to the courts followed his acute embarrassment yesterday when he had to confirm to MPs that three terror suspects whom he had placed under control orders to prevent them travelling to Iraq to kill British and US troops had all absconded on Monday night.
The last picture taken of Maddy before her abduction is in most of the papers.The Sun leads with the story
7 hours later she was gone
THIS is a smiling and happy Madeleine McCann just hours before she was snatched from her bedroom three weeks ago.
Maddie's parents Gerry and Kate released the photo today of their missing four-year-old enjoying herself by the swimming pool at the holiday resort she was taken from on May 3.
The picture was taken by Kate on her own camera less than eight hours before she was snatched from her bed.
She is shown smiling, wearing a pink smock top, white shorts and a sun hat as she cools her feet in the swimming pool.
But the paper also reports
Stranger took Maddie lookalike
HORRIFIED mum told yesterday how a stranger tried to abduct her blonde, blue-eyed girl just a short drive from where Madeleine McCann was snatched.
Portuguese Lina Santos said: “When I saw Maddie’s photo I shivered. She is so similar to my daughter Carolina. They are like doubles.”
Lina and husband Abel believe the man who tried to lead Carolina away was from a MOROCCAN community living near the cafe they run.
Just a week ago another woman said she was “99.9 per cent certain” she saw Maddie, four, with a man at a petrol station — in MOROCCO.
SO FRUSTRATED says the Mirror
THE parents of abducted Madeleine McCann are frustrated by the slow progress of the Portuguese police investigation, a source close to the couple revealed yesterday.
Kate and Gerry McCann are also worried that officers are failing to inform them of developments in the case, which is now three weeks old.
Climbers risk all in 12-hour mission to save woman left to die on Everest reports the Times
A stricken climber left to die on Everest was saved by an American guide and a sherpa who found her by accident as they returned from the summit.
The dramatic rescue of the Nepalese woman has reopened a passionate debate about mountaineering ethics, a year after the controversial death on the mountain of the British climber David Sharp.
The woman, identified only as Usha, was found on Monday morning suffering from severe altitude sickness about 550 metres beneath the 8,848m (29,028ft) summit.
The Guardian reports that
Iran interest rate cut sparks panic selling
Iran's financial system suffered a fresh jolt yesterday with panic selling on the stock market after the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, abruptly ordered banks to cut interest rates sharply, despite surging inflation.
The order, which Mr Ahmadinejad issued by telephone during a visit to Belarus and which flew in the face of expert advice - has triggered warnings of a financial crisis and spiralling corruption amid fears of a capital flight from the country's lending institutions.
Meanwhile the Telegraph reports that
Militants 'will fight to the last drop of blood'
The warning came as Lebanese troops clashed again with the Fatah al-Islam fighters led by Shaker al-Absi in the Nahr al-Bared camp on the outskirts of Tripoli.
Al-Absi, a 52-year-old jet pilot turned Islamic extremist, has rallied a band of self-proclaimed jihadis from across the Arab world after arriving in Lebanon shortly before the cross-border battles with Israel last summer.
Hamas cabinet ministers seized by Israel troops says the Indy
Israeli forces seized a Palestinian cabinet minister and 32 other Hamas officials in overnight West Bank sweeps designed to intensify pressure on the Islamic faction.
As Palestinian ministers outside Hamas condemned the detentions, the faction itself defiantly claimed it would use "any means" to free the detained officials and fired more Qassam rockets into Israel.
The latest move came as Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President, said he was urging an end to the "absurd" rocket attacks but warned that air strikes would not halt them.
WAS KILLED GIRL IN KEBAB? reports the Mirror
A TAKEAWAY owner murdered a schoolgirl and then joked he chopped her up for kebab meat, a court heard yesterday.
Eddie Albattikhi, 29, is said to have had sex with troubled Charlene Downes, 14, before killing her.
One witness claims she overheard Albattikhi joking that the child had gone into his kebabs.
Tim Holroyde QC, prosecuting, said: "No trace of her body was ever found."
Jordanian Albattikhi denies murder and Mohammed Reveshi, 50, from Iran, denies helping dispose of the body in Blackpool in 2003. The trial in Preston continues.
Finally the Indpendent reveals
Life after Polly: Connie Booth (a case of Fawlty memory syndrome)
Connie Booth has a simple explanation for why she lost her enthusiasm for sitcoms. The actress and co-writer of Fawlty Towers once said: "I used to watch a lot of comedy until I got divorced. Then I went off it."
The American-born actress - whose status as a creator of the show voted the greatest in British television history has often been overlooked - endeared herself to millions as Polly, the sensible but harried waitress who was the comic foil to the insanity of Basil Fawlty, played by John Cleese, her husband at the time.
But when their marriage began to unravel just as the couple were writing the second series of Fawlty Towers in 1978, Booth began to go off other things as well.
Not least among those was acting itself and the media spotlight that followed her every move, resulting in one of the more perplexing changes of heart in recent showbusiness history.
She has maintained a steadfast silence about Fawlty Towers - and the rest of an acting career that included a formative role in the Monty Python show - for at least 20 years and has not acted since 1995.
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