In brief: Nigella roasts rivals in Xmas sales
'Domestic goddess' Nigella Lawson is winning this year's battle for the best-selling Christmas cookbook: Nigella Express is outselling rival Jamie Oliver's latest recipe tome by more than 100,000 copies at Waterstone's... A sketch of a shark, drawn on a catalogue featuring some of his works, by Damien Hirst has sold for £1 in a charity raffle... The Two Ronnies' original handwritten script of their classic sketch, Four Candles, has sold in an online auction for £48,500... Actor Russell Crowe is on a crusade to make the Sydney rugby league club that he co-owns more "family-friendly"; the actor has convinced club members to ditch the gambling machines which rake in A$1m a year... Osama Bin Laden's driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, is to be the first Guantanamo detainee to face trail. Meanwhile actress and human rights activist Vanessa Redgrave put up half of the £50,000 bail last night for Jamil el-Banna, one of three British residents arrested after arriving in Britain last night following their release from Guantanamo... A police investigation has upheld claims that a saboteur doused Miss Puerto Rico Universe Ingrid Rivera's clothes with pepper spray in an attempt to prevent her from winning the contest last month... Christian groups have complained to the BBC over a trailer for the Christmas Day Doctor Who special which uses religious imagery to depict David Tennant's doctor as a 'messiah'... ·













