DI DRESS ON EBAY 
One of Princess Diana’s dresses is being auctioned on eBay. The sarong-style pink evening dress, made by Catherine Walker, one of Diana’s favourite designers, has a reserve price of 53,763.
Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Required Riding: E39 BMW M5 
BMW’s don’t burble. Except for one: the last-generation M5. The instant you fire-up the Bavarian four-door (codenamed E39), its powerplant burbles with all the subdued menace of a late 60’s muscle…
Source: www.jalopnik.com

Extreme apathy can be fatal — no foolin’? 
On the outside chance that you missed the April 1 issue of the British Medical Journal, here’s news you or a no-account loved one can use. A landmark Australian study has concluded that “Extreme laziness may have a medical basis.” Extreme laziness?
Source: www.post-gazette.com

‘Have I retired? It’s hard to know’ 
Theatre: Playwright Michael Frayn talks to Mark Lawson about rumours that he has put down his pen.
Source: arts.guardian.co.uk

AngloMania 
HA new fashion exhibition has been introducing New Yorkers to some of our finest creations. Here are some of the costumes on show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s English rooms.
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Staging terror 
Until the beginning of the 1960s, when translations of some of Garcia Lorca’s major plays began to appear in the monthly Theatre Magazine , Spanish drama was virtually unknown in Egypt. The same could be said of Russian, German, American and Scandinavian drama.
Source: weekly.ahram.org.eg

More news 
Golfer ? We’ve set up a website, GolfingToday.net , with details of over 100 local courses.
Source: www.leamingtonspatoday.co.uk

His Adequacy hits out over climate change 
Former vice-president opts for big entrance at Cannes for the premiere of a documentary on global warming.
Source: www.guardian.co.uk