In brief: Kray twins painting up for sale
Seven paintings by the late Reggie and Ronnie Kray - executed in the 1970s while they were serving life sentences in Parkhurst prison - have been put up for sale at an auction house in Hampshire. However, the work that has attracted the most attention is a portrait of the East London gangsters (pictured) signed by G Young. The artist is believed to be teacup poisoner Graham Young, who murdered his stepmother and two work colleagues...........Emma Watson, who plays Hermione in the Harry Potter movies, has won a place at Yale University………… Techno-punk band, The Prodigy, have gone straight to the top of the album chart with their new album Invaders Must Die, their first new release since 2001........... Before becoming a TV chef, Gordon Ramsay's greatest claim to fame - often mentioned by him in interviews - was that he played for first-team of Glasgow Rangers. This has been dismissed as "complete and utter nonsense" by the club’s historian Robert McElroy, who has watched every competitive game the club has played since 1972. A Rangers spokesman said of Ramsay’s time at the club: "He trained with us for a few months but then got injured"............Julie Myerson, the award-winning novelist and regular panelist on BBC2’s Newsnight Review, has thrown her cannabis-addicted 17-year-old son out of her family home - a traumatic experience, no doubt, but one which she has managed to turn into a book, The Lost Child, which is published this week..............Gail Trimble (pictured), captain of the team that won the grand final of the BBC’s University Challenge last week, may have to face quiz-master Jeremy Paxman once more following the revelation that one of her team, Sam Kay, ceased to be a student before the semi-finals and final were filmed last year............. ·













