Some wimmin news



A nasty gold-digger: "While Sir Paul McCartney expressed himself moderately throughout his divorce hearing, his estranged wife was inaccurate, inconsistent and less than candid, a judge said in a ruling the former model did not want the world to see. The full judgment of the divorce battle between Ms Mills and Sir Paul was released today after her attempt to appeal against Mr Justice Bennett's decision to release it failed at the Court of Appeal. The judge described Sir Paul's evidence as "balanced".


Woman owes $60,000 in traffic fines: "For three years Kylie Denton collected unpaid fines the way Imelda Marcos collected shoes. Yesterday, the 26-year-old fronted Geelong Magistrates' Court where she pleaded guilty to racking up a whopping $60,000 in unpaid fines. Magistrate Michael Coghlan described the pile of unpaid fines before him as the biggest he had ever seen. "These include warrants for unpaid parking and tollway fines as well as those relating to driving an unregistered car on a tollway," Mr Coghlan said... "These are for fines she has incurred over a long period of time, during which she has decided to drive through toll zones without paying, park wherever she liked and not pay the fines." Mr Coghlan said he could either sentence Denton to a reduced term of imprisonment or she could start paying off the $60,000. Mr Streager said Denton could arrange to pay $5000 immediately and then pay a significant amount each month. Mr Coghlan adjourned the matter for a further hearing on April 29."


Female writers reject feminist prize: "The all-women Orange literature prize is still needed, despite women winning prizes in fair competition with men, the organisers have said. The Orange prize longlist, published yesterday, includes Anne Enright's The Gathering, which won the unisex Booker a few weeks ago. In the past two years, women have won both the Booker and Costa literary awards. The novelist A. S. Byatt told The Times that the Orange was a sexist prize, saying that she was so critical of what it stands for that she forbids her publishers to submit her novels for consideration. "Such a prize was never needed," she said, noting that many works of literature were by women. John Sutherland, the academic, said that ghettoising women writers did them more harm them good. Anita Brookner, a Booker winner, has dismissed positive discrimination and is also believed to have declined having her novels entered for the Orange."

Posted by John Ray.