London, Nov 5 : Britain could be left with no nuclear deterrent for the first time in 40 years, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has warned.

The National Audit Office said even the smallest delay in building our new 20billion pound fleet of nuclear subs could leave us completely unprotected.

It would be the first time since 1968 that the UK did not have its crucial nuclear shield.

Our existing fleet of four Vanguard nuke subs will come to the end of their life in the early 2020s, The Sun reported.

But their replacements will not be ready until 2024. In a hard-hitting report the National Audit Office said building the subs must be started by 2014 at the latest.

London, Nov 5 : Michael Schumacher has congratulated Lewis Hamilton on becoming Formula One world champion - after being “overwhelmed” by Sunday’s thrilling title decider in Brazil.

Hamilton left it desperately late before capturing the crown by a point from Felipe Massa.

“What a finale!” said seven times former world champion Schumacher, now a Ferrari advisor.

“I’m still overwhelmed from the race. I have never seen anything like this, not as a racer and not as a spectator - you can probably only say it was fate. I congratulate Lewis Hamilton,” The Sun quoted him, as saying.

London, November 5 : Jennifer Hudson has held herself responsible for the tragic murders of her family members, by letting them live in the danger-ridden neighbourhood.

The Oscar winner’s mother, Darnell Donerson, and brother, Jason, were found shot dead on October 24 in their Chicago residence, reports the Daily Express.

The body of the singer’s seven-year-old nephew was discovered three days later in an abandoned car in Chicago.

The ‘Dreamgirls’ actress is said to be ridden with guilt for not doing enough to convince her family to move out of the violent area.

London, Nov. 5 : Now that Barack Obama has set to become the 44th President of the United States, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will have to learn to deal with him

As a rule Brown sleeps through tricky elections and takes stock next morning. Though 10, Downing Street has carefully stuck to the myth that Brown could do business with George W. Bush, he is heartily glad that he is almost gone, reports The Telegraph.

"The better way of looking at it is that he sees this as a new beginning," a Downing Street aide says, tactfully.

London, Nov 5 : Enraged phone prank girl Georgina Baillie has taken a swipe at comic Russell Brand by calling him a “whore.”

Brand, on his BBC radio show, claimed that he had bedded the 23-year-old busty beauty.

The revelation angered the dancer with a burlesque troupe called Satanic Sluts and even led to a furore at the BBC last week.

“I might be a slut but I’m not a whore,” The Sun quoted Georgina as telling OK Magazine.

She added: “A slut is an independent woman who does whatever she wants so long as she does not hurt someone.

“A whore is someone who sleeps with someone and talks about them on the radio.”

London, Nov 5 : Indian-born fashion designer Anand Jon’s fate is now in the hands of a Los Angeles jury, for it has started deliberations on the charges of sexual assault levelled against him.

Jon is facing 27 counts, which includes rape and sexual assault, on a number of women - many of whom were models and underage at the time of the alleged attacks.

The incidents are said to have taken place between 2001 and 2007, reports the Daily Express.

Now, the jury of six men and six women are expected to deliver a verdict in the next few days.