STEVEN Spielberg may have decided he wants nothing more to do with China, but former Foreign Secretary Lord Hurd seems more relaxed about the place. He has agreed to work there as a tourist guide, of all things. Hurd has been hired by a travel company to escort a group in China later this year.

By Hancock WHAT'S this we hear about the very proper Douglas Hurd, former Foreign Secretary and bastion of Government, having a day trip to Drayton Manor theme park? Did Doug - now actually Lord Hurd of Westwell - sit astride Stormforce? Did he take a trip on Apocalypse. Er, no.

IS SAINTLY ex-Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd looking for a new job? In April 2006, with a great fanfare of publicity, Russian telecoms group Altimo appointed Lord Hurd and a number of other Western luminaries to an "international advisory board".

DAVID CAMERON was guest of honour at the launch of Tory grandee Douglas Hurd's biography of Robert Peel, at Coutt's on the Strand last night.

Lord Hurd v Lord Laidlaw Ground: Lords Kick-off: 11am Score: Hurd 1, Laidlaw 0 FEW peers cherish their sense of honour like the former foreign secretary, Douglas Hurd. So he heaped approbrium on a peer he felt had failed to uphold the standards required on the red benches.