Belle and Sebastian and the White Horses

THE SCANDAL over the lengths cities go to in the hope of becoming an Olympic host took another turn yesterday when the organisers of the 1996 Atlanta Games released a report containing a list of gifts the organisers gave to members of the International Olympic Committee who chose the games venue.

JOHNNY MORRIS, presenter of television's Animal Magic programme, died last night at the age of 82.

The creator of the Teletubbies has been voted Businesswoman of the Year. Yet Anne Wood's business has not made her personally rich. Can such a passionate and single-minded person have missed a trick?

ANY CORPORATE finance bods who might have run their slide rules over Ragdoll Productions, the private TV production company run by the Business Woman of the Year, Anne Wood, can forget it. Though she has won worldwide success with Teletubbies and a number of other children's programmes, Ms Wood insists the company she founded 14 years ago is not a candidate for flotation.

These are heady days for the creator of Tinky Winky and friends. Interview by Matthew Sweet

Best known as the presenter of Watchdog and Watchdog Healthcheck, Alice Beer also hosts Vic Reeves' and Bob Mortimer's Families at War.

When Nicola Davies's husband left her and their two children for a younger woman, it was a bolt from the blue. Under the pseudonym Stevie Morgan, she wrote a diary about her divorce, `Beloved and Bonk', for `The Independent'. Now she has written a novel based on her experience. Nicola, 40, lives in the West country. Mary Shooter, 52, is her only sister: a teacher with four grown-up children, she lives in Wales.

Sir: To be fair to the Rev Jerry Falwell ("Teletubby is secret gay, says evangelist", 11 February), one must admit that the Teletubbies are probably too sophisticated for him.

THE AGREEABLE WORLD OF WALLACE ARNOLD

In just eight weeks he's topped the American television ratings, even beating Sesame Street. How did such a frightfully British export became the coolest dude in Toytown, USA?

A MISCHIEVOUS little boy with a dimpled smile has become the nation's favourite five-year-old since starring in a trailer for BBC children's TV.

A NEW gang of television characters is set to do battle with the Teletubbies for the affections of the nation's toddlers. The format of the BBC project, Tweenies, is secret, but it is understood the series will feature four clearly defined characters with whom the 3-5 year-old audience can identify.

TRUMPTON'S Pugh, Pugh, Barney, McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb are to star in a new BBC promotion, conceived as the successor to last year's highly-acclaimed "Perfect Day" record.