Mail on Sunday

A Hostage of Iran... And Prejudice Too

I KNOW all about Leading Seaman Faye Turney. I know that she has a three-year-old daughter called Molly and a husband called Adam. I know that she has chosen to pursue-her career after having considered the effect this might have on her child. 'Hopefully by seeing me do what I do, she'll grow up knowing that a woman can have a career and a family at the same time,' Faye has told us.

The Night Lord Reith, Revolver in His Lap, Spoke of Suicide to Secret Love ; John Reith Was the Puritanical Founder of the Bbc. Now Greg Dyke, His Successor As Dg, Is to Reveal His Obsession with a Gorgeous Girl (and, Yes, the Programme Is On the Bbc)

IT WAS 2am and after a night at the ballet Dawn Mackay was about to go to bed when the telephone rang. The conversation was to last for hours, as her impassioned caller spoke of his infatuation for her... and threatened to take his life with the service revolver he cradled on his lap.

Chels, Haz and the Nat Factor ; Harry 'Falls Over' After Party with Good Friend Natalie... Result: Chelsy Decides She Won't See Him Before He Goes to War. But at Least She Didn't Dump Him Like Last Time...

THIS weekend should have been spent by Prince Harry in eager anticipation of a reunion with his girlfriend of three years. Instead, while Chelsy Davy soaks up the Caribbean sun, the Prince is languishing thousands of miles away in London with no prospect of seeing her any time soon. For a disgruntled Chelsy has cancelled plans to travel to England to spend time with Harry, who leaves for a six-month tour of Iraq later this month.

800 Face Sack in Beckett Farm Payment Fiasco

MORE than 800 civil servants are to be sacked in savage new cuts imposed by Gordon Brown after the farm payments scandal. A secret email shows the Chancellor has ordered a crackdown on the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, run by his leadership rival David Miliband, after the EU threatened to fine Britain up to Pounds 500million over the bungle.

Fighting for Survival, the Gentleman's Club for Spies and the Sas

HIDDEN in a quiet London side street with no nameplate on the door is one of Britain's most exclusive and shadowy private clubs. Membership of the Knightsbridge-based Special Forces Club is strictly limited to Britain's current and former military and intelligence elite.

Boy, Ten, Quizzed Over 'Gay Email'

A BOY of ten has been questioned by police after allegedly calling a schoolfriend 'gay' in an email. Two officers arrived at George Rawlinson's home and yesterday his father criticised their action as 'completely ridiculous'.

Doubt On Pm's Falkland Support

TONY Blair's claim that he fully backed Margaret Thatcher's decision to go to war over the Falklands has been cast into doubt. It was revealed last night that he had claimed that sinking the Argentine warship the Belgrano may have been against international law.

John, George, Ringo And... Speccy

BEATLES fans always knew John Lennon as 'the one with the glasses'. But this rare picture shows Paul McCartney wearing a pair of thick hornrimmed specs while deep in discussion with the band about their classic album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Network Rail Did Everything Possible to Blame Michael for the Paddington Crash...But I Never Doubted Him ; After Eight Years of Dignified Silence, Widow of the Driver Made a Scapegoat by Cynical Rail Chiefs Speaks for First Time

FOR nearly eight years, Kerry Hodder has maintained a dignified silence. As the widow of the train driver killed in the Paddington rail disaster of 1999, she has somehow managed the task of quietly grieving for the father of her children while seeing him vilified as the man responsible for a crash that claimed 30 other lives and injured 400. Kerry struggled to reconcile her feelings for the man she knew as a cautious perfectionist with the public's perception of him as a man who blithely drov...

Warne and Wife 'Patch Things Up and Move to England'

CRICKET'S bad boy Shane Warne and his estranged wife, Simone, have reunited and plan to move to Britain. The couple have put their Melbourne mansion up for sale and will settle on England's South Coast with their three children, according to reports in Australia.

The Highflying Banker. . . And the New Age Guru Who 'Brainwashed' Him Into a Pounds 300,000 Cottage Renovation

AS A highly paid investment banker, Angus Blair would have been used to the stresses of dealing in millions of pounds every day. Mr Blair ran the Middle East and North Africa desks for ING Barings, and had a 20-year unblemished financial career.

Welcome to Britain's Secret Cape Canaveral (...On the Isle of Wight) ; As It Opens to the Public for the First Time, Amazing Pictures of the Rocket-Testing Base That Put Us Ahead of Usa and Russia in the Space Race . . . And Remained Hidden for 50 Years

THINK of the Isle of Wight and images of holiday beaches, caravan parks and people messing about in boats inevitably spring to mind. But just a few decades ago the island had another remarkable and completely secret role as Britain's answer to Cape Canaveral.

Tv Boss Hussey Left Pounds 4m

FORMER BBC chairman Marmaduke Hussey left an estate worth more than Pounds 4.3million, it was revealed yesterday. Lord Hussey, who died aged 83 last December, was said to have been appointed by Margaret Thatcher to tackle the BBC's perceived Leftwing bias.

Facing Death: The 'Goofy' Briton Accused of Butchering This Hollywood Couple ; Friends Lobby Blair to Help 'Innocent' Man Who Was Caught Up with Drugs Gangs

AMERICAN prosecutors are to demand the death penalty for a British man accused of a grotesque double killing on the drug- fuelled fringes of the showbusiness community in the Hollywood hills. Neil Revill, 33, has spent nearly six years in a maximum security jail in Los Angeles, waiting to be brought to trial. He has always vigorously protested his innocence, but his plight has until now been unpublicised.

Uk Weather Watch

Sunday's switch to British Summer Time was the trigger for warmer weather to sweep across the country. On Tuesday Herstmonceux, East Sussex, hit 19C, the highest temperature of the year so far but nights were still cold and foggy for many. Aviemore dipped to -4C overnight and Scarborough could manage only 6C on Wednesday.

How Scotland Could Scupper Mrbrown...

Most English people take little interest in Scottish politics.The Scottish elections are, as far as the English are concerned, as Neville Chamberlain said: 'A quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.' Yet the Scottish elections, which will be held on May 3, could produce a revolutionary result. Last week three opinion polls showed the Scottish National Party in the lead. The SNP, whose leader, Alex Salmond, is a dangerously gifted politician, has a fouryear plan to...

Statistically Speaking

Proportion of surveyed Americans who say they have no close friends to confide in: 25 per cent; in 1985: 10 per cent Average age of first-time grooms in Australia in 2005: 29.9 years; in 1985: 25.4 years

Letters

Sorry day if we have to apologise With the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade, it was predictable to see political pressure groups calling for reparations and pointless apologies. Would it not be more constructive to tackle modern day slavery especially in Britain, with the sex industry and the dodgy practice of employers keeping foreign workers' passports.

Scream of the Crop ; Frank Barrett Cheats a Hangman's Noose On the London Dungeon's Ghoulish New Ride

A YOUNG woman dressed in some sort of Hammer Horror 'peasant wench' costume leapt out at me from a dark corner. 'Boo!' she said. As I had just arrived and felt slightly disorientated (it's jolly gloomy down there), I was off-guard. I screamed feebly and jumped, the peasant wench laughed. The working day at the London Dungeon had begun.

Take a Trip to the Dark Side with the Family This Easter

HERE are some Bank Holiday suggestions for those who like their tourism dark: Berkeley Castle,Gloucestershire