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BBC changes apology to Andrew Sachs after exclusion complain

London, Nov 9 : BBC was forced to change an apology to Andrew Sachs over the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand scandal after the actor complained that it was not directly referring to his wife and daughter.

The apology, which was broadcasted on Radio 2, had to be reworded by the Corporation after 78-year-old Sachs complained saying that the two had been deeply hurt by the affair. 

Sachs telephoned the BBC after listening to the first of two planned broadcasts of the statement and asked for the second apology to be changed.

“Mr Sachs asked us to specifically include mention of his wife and family in the second broadcast apology at 9.03 pm and we were happy to do this,” the Telegraph quoted a BBC spokeswoman as saying.

Glamour model Amii Grove gets engaged to soccer ace Jermaine Pennant

London, Nov 9 : English glamour model and Page Three Girl Amii Grove is engaged to Liverpool star Jermaine Pennant.

Fans make own Lord of the Rings inspired movie

London, Nov 9 : Fans inspired by the Lord of the Rings films are making their own movie ‘Born Of Hope’, which has a 25,000 pounds budget, and is being made in the UK.

None of those who are taking part in the making of the movie are getting paid for it, but the Middle Earth subject matter has attracted people from around the globe to join the team, including some of the film''s original cast and crew, Sky News reported.

The low-budget production, which is due for release sometime in November 2009, has according to its backers been well received at many conventions and exhibitions worldwide after a trailer from the test shoot in April 2006 was shown.

Quartet meeting ends in Sharm el-Sheikh

Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt - The one-day meeting of the Middle East Quartet ended in Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday with announced plans to stick to the Annapolis process, maintain Palestinian-Israeli negotiations and to hold a meeting on the Middle East peace process in Moscow next spring.

The quartet, which is comprised of the EU, the UN, Russia and the US issued a two-and-half- page statement following their meeting with Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni that emphasized that direct bilateral Israeli-Palestinian negotiations should be continued and that an agreement will only be announced when all issues are agreed on.

Protests as German nuclear waste train crosses Germany

Berlin - As a trainload of nuclear waste crossed Germany Sunday, riot police drew batons to push back demonstrators who tried to block a railway line.

On Saturday, the train had been delayed for more than 11 hours by three militants who chained themselves to a track near the French border. Police had to carefully dismantle a lump of concrete buried under the track to detach the trio.

Protesters later tried to occupy another railway line, 500 kilometres to the north, where the train was expected to arrive on Monday. The remains of nuclear fuel rods are bound for a German nuclear waste warehouse.

Tzipi Livni, Gulf ministers to meet on fringes of Mideast summit

Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni plans to privately meet with three Arab foreign ministers on the sidelines of an international summit on the Middle East peace process on Sunday, informed sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al- Nahyan, Bahraini Foreign Minister Khaled al-Mubarak and Moroccan Foreign Minister Tayib al-Fassi al-Fehrani have agreed to the meeting in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where the so-called Middle East Quartet was meeting Sunday, the source said.

The ministers asked that the meeting not be announced, the source said.

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