In brief: Stella McCartney designs Comic Relief T-shirts

Stella McCartney has designed the T-shirts for Comic Relief's Red Nose Day, which raises money for various African charities, and has enlisted the support of her friends Gwyneth Paltrow (left), Keira Knightley (right), Claudia Schiffer and the artist Sam Taylor-Wood, to drum up sales………….. Noel Clarke, the award-winning writer/director of the films Adulthood and Kidulthood, is to to debut his first play, called Lounder than Words, at the Tristram Bates Theatre in London next month........... Jo Brand, the comedienne, has become the subject of a police investigation after she joked that she would like to send 'poo' to members of the right-wing British National Party. Simon Darby, the BNP's deputy leader, lodged an official complaint to Hammersmith police alleging that Brand's comment had been an act of incitement to cause racial harassment.............Carole Vorderman, the former presenter of Channel 4's Countdown, is to head a Conservative Party task force analysing the teaching of mathematics in British schools………..Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former spin doctor, is to appear on a new BBC reality show called The Speaker, which will attempt to find the country's best young orator............The five-storey building in London's Savile Road that used to be the headquarters of Apple Corps, the Beatles record label, and where the band famously played their last gig on the rooftop 40 years ago, is being sold for £3m…………. ·