Geldof goes to High Court

Bob Geldof went to the High Court in London yesterday for an emergency order relating to the future of his children after police searching for drugs raided the home of his former wife Paula Yates and her lover Michael Hutchence.

Mr Geldof is believed to have made an application to in relation to Fifi Trixibelle, 13, Peaches, six, and Pixie, four, who are staying with their father, following allegations that drugs, said to be opium, were found at the couple's Chelsea house.

Paula, 34, and Hutchence, 36, are both in Sydney, Australia, with their two-month-old daughter, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily.