Vicar who married Kate and Wills says dress left him 'breathless'

THE DEAN of Westminster, the Very Reverend Dr John Hall, has spoken for the first time of the moment when Kate Middleton arrived to be married by him to Prince William, saying he was "breath-taken", the Sunday Express reveals. He said: "She was so strikingly beautiful and the shape of the dress was so charming... I was quite breath-taken and just smiled. It was just one of those ‘pinch-me’ moments, a great privilege"…

HOLLYWOOD ACTOR Woody Harrelson has found inspiration in adversity. The former Cheers star is working on a play, which he wants to direct and write, about the real-life incident in which a drunken argument he had with a London cabbie ended up with Harrelson spending the night in the cells and forking out £500 for damage to the taxi, says The Sunday Telegraph…

TENNIS PLAYER Andy Murray's mother, Judy, caused a row at the Houses of Parliament. Invited there by Baroness Billingham, she snapped a photo of the door of a ladies' loo on her phone – and posted it on Twitter, because it was labelled "Lady Peers", adding her caption: "Too funny!" Now Black Rod has complained to the Baroness that her guest "belittled the dignity of Parliament". But Billingham has refused to ask Murray to delete the tweet, the Mail on Sunday reports…

STEADY ON, cartoonists: senior figures at Aardman Animation, the home of Wallace and Gromit, are to voice concerns at a "status meeting" this week that continual comparisons between their rictus-grinning hero and Labour leader Ed Miliband are "damaging the brand". Cartoonists have taken to drawing Miliband as Wallace, reports The Independent on Sunday…

A DANCER at a world-famous ballet company who blew the whistle on what she claims is a "plague of anorexia" among ballerinas has been fired for "damaging the image" of Milan's La Scala. Mariafrancesca Garritano told The Observer in December that one in five ballerinas have the condition. La Scala says there was a problem in the past, but new educational methods place less pressure on dancers…

WESTMINSTER IS transfixed, says the Mail on Sunday, by an eerily accurate spoof Twitter account, @SteveHiltonGuru. Purporting to belong to the Tories' eccentric PR maestro, the satire is so close to the original that Hilton has been forced to deny he is behind it. The spoofer even predicted Sir Fred Goodwin would lose his knighthood… ·