In brief: Kate Winslet tricked by mag

Kate Winslet has received an apology from Vanity Fair after she discovered that she was given real fur to wear on a photoshoot for this month's issue of the magazine. The 33-year-old British actress, who has been a vocal opponent of fur, agreed to pose on the rug in the belief that it was fake………… One of the judges on the BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing is furious that the public keep voting to keep John Sergeant, the corporation's former political editor, in the competition. Despite scoring only 12 out of 40 on Sunday's show, Sergeant remains in the running. Said Arlene Phillips: "We're judging on the ability of dance," she said. "It's very well that people fall in love with a man, but what his feet are doing isn't a foxtrot"………… Coldplay have been named as the world's top-selling act of 2008 at the World Music Awards in Monaco after latest album, Viva La Vida, topped charts in Britain, the US, Japan, Germany and France………….South African singer Miriam Makeba, one of Africa's best known voices and a champion of the fight against apartheid, has died of a heart attack aged 76 after a performance in Italy…………

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