Briefs

A few fashion problems are hitting the Spice Girls movie set, we hear. The fashion police are said to have dictated that the girls should be clad in Farah pants. Trouble is, the design which graced many a slim hip in the Seventies doesn’t quite fit the more, erm, curvacious members of the team. ‘We’re having terrible problems with Geri,’ whispers a source. ‘Having said that, where she bulges out of them, she bulges out more attractively than most.’

The British Library is running a photographic exhibition of tomb paintings next month, featuring works created as long ago as 37BC in Koguryo, now better known as North Korea. Seoul newspaper Dong-A Daily News is one of the organisers. A look at page three is apparently an uplifting way to start the day.