24.06.07-30.06.07

HELLO, GOODBYE: It was the week in which MP Quentin Davies bid adieu to his fellow Tories; when Michael Parkinson decided to stop hosting chat shows, and when Chantelle and Preston announced the break-up of their marriage. If you must ask, they fell in love on Celebrity Big Brother last year. We said hello to Hatshepsut, Queen of the Egyptians, identified at last as the mummy found in the Valley of the Kings in 1903; to Andy Capp, whose statue was unveiled in his creator Reg Smythe's home town of Hartlepool, complete with flat cap and pint (but no cigarette), and we welcomed the antics of US newsreader Mika Brzezinski, so frustrated with the Paris Hilton story that she tried to set fire to the script and then ripped it up.

Terrorism was back on the streets of London and Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi returned to the headlines. He is the Libyan intelligence agent convicted of the Lockerbie bombing on evidence so flimsy even the bereaved doubt he did it, and he has won a second appeal. Oh, and the PM wished us: "Au revoir, auf Wiedersehen, Arrivederci."

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