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Doctor Who and exuberant sidekick Donna team up following their successful series opener - which attracted nine million viewers - to battle it out in ancient Rome next week.Newly released pictures show the Doctor and Donna squaring up to a series of outrageous baddies in notorious volcano hotspot Pompeii.
 
This week’s show will include cameos from Peter Capaldi - of satire The Thick of It - and Quadrophenia’s Phil Davis.

The series four opener on Saturday wiped the floor with the competition, attracting nine million viewers, 300,000 more than episode one of series three last year.
BBC One’s programme Casualty recorded 7.1m viewers, while its latest musical talent show I’d Do Anything, plus the National Lottery each secured 6.8m viewers.
ITV’s long running clip show You’ve Been Framed recorded 4.7m while Harry Hill’s TV Burp secured 5.5m and Duel 5.6m.

Exotic: Donna and the Doctor will meet even more weird and wonderful characters in episode two

Rome is burning: The popular programme’s opening episode attracted nine million viewers

Saturday’s episode saw the Doctor reunited with Catherine Tate as the Doctor’s new companion Donna, reprising her role from the 2006 Christmas Special The Runaway Bride.
The latest series secured an audience share of 39.4 per cent.
Billie Piper also made a surprise appearance in the initial episode as Rose Tyler.

Reunited: Catherine Tate reprised her role from the 2006 Christmas Special The Runaway Bride

A BBC spokesperson said: “This is a great start for the new series of Doctor Who. The show kicked off a fantastic night of family entertainment on BBC One which pulled in big audiences across the evening.”
The previous third series of the show secured an average 7.03 million viewers.
The series will also see Billie Piper returns as Rose Tyler and Freema Agyeman will also re-appear as Martha Jones.

Meanwhile, someone who should know a thing or two about being the daughter of a timelord is actress Georgia Moffett.
The daughter of former Doctor Who actor Peter Davison, is to star in the hit BBC1 show.

Bizarre: Georgia Moffett, daughter of former Dr Who timelord Peter Davison (left), will play the part of a woman who claims to the daughter to the current timelord David Tenant
Bizarrely she will play the part of a woman who claims to be the child of the current timelord, played by David Tenant.
Moffett, 23, who is the daughter of Davison and his former wife, squeaky voice US actress Sandra Dickinson, makes an appearance in the sixth episode.
Insiders are saying very little about her part other than she claims to be the daughter of Doctor Who, a claim of which the sci-fi hero is “dubious”.
Moffett has had a colourful life already having seen her parents marriage fall apart when she was eight and then herself falling pregnant at 16.

Daddy Doctor: Georgina as she appears as the Doctor’s alleged daughter
She has since carved out a successful acting career having starred in ITV shows The Bill, Where The Heart Is and Bonkers.
The mother, whose son is called Ty, has previously starred alongside her 56-year-old dad in BBC sitcom Fear, Stress and Anger.
Moffett, whose character is called Jenny, grew up with Doctor Who as a child when her father played the role.
She became pregnant at 16 during her GCSEs after taking antibiotics while on the pill, not realising they can negate its contraceptive effects.
By the time she found out she was having a baby she was no longer with the father.
At the time she had waited three months to tell her parents eventually presenting her mum with a picture of her ultrasound scan as she broke the news.
She did not have the courage to tell her dad, so she told her stepmother.
Bizarrely her best friend at school was the daughter of Colin Baker, the actor that succeeded Davison as the timelord.
She is said to be still close to both her parents, but has admitted that her mother and father do not talk to each other.
Her mother famously starred in The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy and she even starred alongside Davison in a stage production of The Owl and The Pussycat.
Davison, as well as Doctor Who, is famous for his appearances in All Creatures Great And Small, At Home With The Braithwaites.
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Paris Hilton hasn’t let her less than perfect feet put her off launching her own shoe range.The socialite arrived in Montreal on the weekend to meet her fans and launch her newly designed range of shoes.

But some might say it’s a bit rich coming from the heiress who possesses a pair of extremely large size 11 feet (UK size 9) complete with an angry-looking bunion

Nonetheless, Paris’ shoe launch attracted hundreds of people, as they lined up on a Ste-Catherine Street sidewalk for as long as seven hours to meet the infamous heiress.

Dressed in a black minidress, and striking silver shoes from the range, Paris said: “I’m so excited to be in Montreal again, I love Canada.”It’s an honour to have my shoe line here. I’m very excited and I’m excited to see all my fans - I saw there’s so many people outside”, she told fans crammed into the back of the downtown Browns Shoes store.
Paris has previously bemoaned her huge US size 11 feet. She said: “Yeah, it sucks, because I see all these super cute shoes in the stores: Guccis, YSLs, Manolos.

“And when they bring them out in my size, they look like clown shoes.”

However, her fans greeted the launch of her shoe collection like a major event, and shouted “I love you Paris” to the socialite as she strutted around a small stage.

The heiress beamed back, and said: “I love you all, thank you so much for coming, this is so exciting, and go buy my shoes.”

As well as her own shoe and clothing line, she has launched her own line of hair extensions with company DreamCatchers.

The aspiring actress also makes hundreds of thousands of dollars from product endorsements, and personal appearances.

Signed, sealed and delivered: Paris signs a canine fans t-shirt
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For six months the opposing sides have strained and battled in the mud. Now the Diana inquest is finally over.Above all, people were striving to protect their own reputations.

But there is one reputation that nobody tried very hard to protect - that of Princess Diana herself.

Like the pitch at Twickenham after an almighty struggle, Diana’s reputation, her very dignity, has been left a quagmire
As the protagonists walk away, they leave a princess soiled by her most intimate secrets being tastelessly exposed for every prurient observer to enjoy.

The world now knows that she was taking the contraceptive Pill, know about her menstrual cycle, we have a formal list of her lovers and we have heard that her mother called her a “whore”.

No account of her private life, no red-top kiss-and-tell exposure, no published observations of her troubled life had dared plumb such sordid depths before.

The jury was even shown graphic photographs, taken by paparazzi, of Diana dying in the wreckage of the Mercedes. They heard a witness inform the court that the Princess’s final words were: “Oh my God.”

Just how this collection of “facts” helped the jurors make up their minds about the crash in that Paris underpass, heaven alone knows.

Hardly a day has gone by since the inquest opened last October, when some detail of her private life, her dreams and aspirations, has not been gratuitously laid bare.

Nothing was sacred, from her own state of mind on the day of her death to the manner in which she disentangled herself from her love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Dr Hasnat Khan.

Was it really necessary for Mohamed al Fayed’s counsel, Michael Mansfield QC, to formally name the five men who had been her lovers?

The five named were her former police bodyguard Barry Mannakee, ex-Cavalry officer James Hewitt, “Squidgygate” friend James Gilbey, art dealer Oliver Hoare and former England rugby captain Will Carling.
Paul Burrell: The ‘porous rock’
Intriguingly, he managed to omit the most significant of them all, Dodi’s fellow Muslim Dr Hasnat Khan.

To millions, the episode has been an affront to the dignity to which Diana is surely entitled in death.

Of course, dignity means little to the Paul Burrells of this world, as his evidence - and his later casual remarks that he hadn’t told the whole truth - made plain.

Having made his millions from his cheap gossip about Diana, he will, naturally enough, continue to peddle his phoney theme of affection and protection for the vulnerable princess, while milking their past relationship all the more.

After all, thanks to Al Fayed’s obsessive belief that Diana and his son Dodi were murdered by MI6, encouraged by Prince Philip, Diana’s name is today more on everyone’s lips than it was ten years ago.

Those customers who buy Burrell’s expanding range of “royal” products - from furniture to wine, bed linen and cutlery - might reflect that it was the former butler who chose to shock the inquest by telling the court that Diana’s mother, Frances Shand Kydd, angrily called her daughter a “whore”, shouted at her for “messing around with f****** Muslim men” and told her she was “disgraceful”.

Burrell, we should remember, was described by the coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker as a liar and could risk arrest for perjury if he returns to Britain.

For most other people, the jury’s verdict has not changed their opinion that the inquest was a complete waste of time and public money, driven by one man’s obsession.

And yet, for some, the verdict of unlawful killing involving Ritz driver Henri Paul and the pursuing paparazzi, is a moment of liberation.

Just imagine how Prince Charles feels at this moment.

For a decade he has lived with allegations of complicity in the death of his ex-wife, based on a hand-written letter in which the Princess expressed her fears that he wanted her killed. It even mentioned the brakes of her car.

Ludicrous, of course, but the letter’s very existence has cast a dark shadow over the brooding Prince of Wales and, in particular, over his marriage to the former Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles. Camilla, after all, is the starting point of the whole wretched tragedy.

Were it not for her, the stress and unhappiness that drove Charles and the young Diana apart would never have happened, and Diana would not have set off on the path of independence and defiance that led her into the embrace of the Al Fayed riches - and into the arms of Dodi Fayed, with such catastrophic consequences.
Mohamed al Fayed’s counsel named all of Diana’s lovers over the course of th inquest
The coroner’s scornful criticism of Al Fayed’s complete lack of evidence for his outlandish claims has served to brush away from Charles and Camilla any remaining suspicion that has hung over their marriage.

Tomorrow they reach their third anniversary. Theirs’ is a marriage not without its problems, including reported shouting matches and lengthy periods when each wants to be alone. (Now where in Charles’s life have we heard that before?)

In an intriguing, and quite poetic, role reversal, the Diana factor has played a significant role in Charles and Camilla’s daily domesticity.

“Frankly, Camilla is sick and tired of hearing ‘Diana, Diana, Diana’ every day for the last ten years - and especially the last six months,” sighs one of her friends.

“It really gets on her nerves - ask any second wife if she wouldn’t feel just like that if she had to ‘live with’ her predecessor morning, noon and night. Let’s hope now the inquest is over it’ll soon be the end of it.”

It possibly could be, were it not for the guilt that still gnaws away at Charles and which has been exacerbated by the inquest.

“Charles knows that many people will always blame him for what ultimately happened to Diana,” says one of his friends.

“Thanks to the jury, all that nonsense of Diana fearing that he wanted to do away with her has gone away at last.

“Charles still has a sense of guilt that he is in some way responsible for what happened to her. But I know he’s hoping he can at last put it behind him.”

As for the rest of the Royal Family, Prince Philip never dignified Al Fayed’s bizarre accusations that he was the man “running the country” and sending out assassins to murder his son and future daughter-in-law, by responding to them.

But even he must have wondered just what wild rabbits the Harrods’ owner’s teams of lawyers and private investigators might have pulled out of the hat to impress the jury.
Far from Philip being cruel and unkind to Diana, as was widely suggested, and plotting her murder, the inquest heard a series of letters that he wrote in affectionate tones to his former daughter-in-law in 1992, the year Charles and Diana separated.

Signing them, “Fondest love, Pa”, he was clearly sympathetic to her plight and wrote that: “We (he and the Queen) never dreamed he might feel like leaving you for her (Camilla). I cannot imagine … anyone in their right mind leaving you for her.”

For William and Harry, the past six months have not been easy, especially on those days when intimate details of their mother’s love life were being trawled through.

They would never say so publicly, but privately they blame Mohamed al Fayed for the ghastly and endless exposure to which their late mother has been subjected.
The people’s princess: Diana has been harshly laid bare through the course of the inquest
They have been protected somewhat by being in the Armed Forces, spending some of the time away, and Harry has, of course, seen ten weeks on active service in Afghanistan.

“To them it seemed ironic, and unfair, that the memorial service to their mother late last summer was, in a sense, setting the scene for the awfulness of the inquest that followed just a few weeks later,” says one of William’s close circle. “They’ve hated every second of it, but would never show it.”

As for Diana’s sisters Sarah and Jane, yesterday’s verdict was pretty much what, privately, they always felt.

For Lady Jane, the middle of the three sisters, the past two years have been especially difficult because of Al Fayed’s constantly repeated allegation that her husband Robert - the Queen’s former private secretary Lord Fellowes - was in Paris on the night in question, directing operations from the British embassy.

With astonishing restraint, Fellowes, a quiet chap not given to outbursts of any kind, refrained from responding to Al Fayed’s amazing claims or reaching for his lawyers to institute a multi-million-pound lawsuit.

Only when he climbed into the witness box to give evidence to the inquest did the world learn exactly what he was doing that night.

In a quiet voice he explained that, with dozens of others, he was attending “an entertainment” given by novelist John Mortimer at a church in Burnham Market, Norfolk.

Lady Sarah, the eldest sister, who talked to Diana on the day before her death, was in court most days and is said to be “relieved” that it’s over.

Her impression after talking to Diana was that the relationship with Dodi “did not have much further to run”, though the closed-circuit video evidence from the Ritz Hotel does suggest their friendship was closer than most people realised.

For Sarah, it has been an especially painful time having to listen to the evidence of a string of “weirdos” with whom the Princess associated. These included an astrologer, a spiritualist and a holistic therapist.

Somehow, these reflected the loneliness of the life Diana was leading, and the absence of friends in her life whom she could trust.

Diana’s friends believe it was from among this eccentric circle that the Princess came to believe that her life was in danger and that she could be the target of a murder plot.

One of the Princess’s circle said last night: “Diana was reckless in her choice of friends.”

But this individual was not referring to the “weirdos” so much as Mohamed al Fayed, some of whose employees were exposed as wilful liars under cross-examination.

How ironic that it was the Queen herself who added fuel to Al Fayed’s claims by talking of “forces of which we have no knowledge” to Paul Burrell. How she must have come to regret saying that - if she did. After all, we have only Burrell’s word for it.
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