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PEACHES Geldof puts her recent troubles behind her and gets back to what she does best - partying hard. Bob Geldof's girl was at London's Astoria to see new husband Max Drummey's band on Saturday night. Peaches, 19, has enjoyed a few wild weeks - in July it was reported she had taken an overdose. Then two weeks ago, she married Chester French guitarist Max, 23, in secret in Las Vegas. (c) 2008 Daily Record; Glasgow (UK). Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.

LOOKING more like an outlaw, Sir Bob Geldof's son-in-law Max Drummey, 23, rocks with his band Chester French in Sheffield last night. (c) 2008 Daily Mirror. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.

By LORNE JACKSON THEY came from every corner of the nation to participate. Well from all round London at any rate. Girls with large hair and even larger cheque books. Blokes with jackets that didn't just contain shoulder pads - they sported shoulder plateaus. Some of them could sing. Others were geniuses of mime and mince. All of them arrived at the recording studio for one reason - to become modern day saints. And that's exactly what the pop stars who featured on the Band Aid...

By LIZZIE ROBINSON PEACHES Geldof has married her American boyfriend in Las Vegas in a simple, low-key ceremony. The 19-year-old daughter of Bob Geldof tied the knot with Max Drummey, singer in indie band Chester French after a whirlwind romance. Their romance blossomed two months ago after Drummey's band played at the iTunes festival in London. Geldof (right) first met the 23-year-old Harvard anthropology graduate a year ago. The marriage has the full support of the couple's family and...

By Emily Pykett IT HAS long been the preserve of celebrities to bestow outlandish names upon their offspring. And parents are increasingly following their lead in seeking out original monikers for their children. But now a judge has made one child a ward of court to give her legal powers to change her name from Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii to something more run-of-the-mill. He stepped in after hearing the nine-year-old girl, from the New Zealand town of Hawera, was so worried about...

By TORCUIL CRICHTON HE may fancy himself in the image of Emily Bronte's Heathcliff but Gordon Brown has proved he is no star of the small screen. The Prime Minister 's second outing on YouTube, the video posting website, has proved that even the whizzbang excitement of the internet can be rendered dull in the hands of a master of detail. To boost his online image the Prime Minister last month launched his own No 10 site on the video channel, urging viewers to send in their video questions...

HAUNTING images of a young girl, painfully thin and with lesions covering her pretty face, will stay with Newcastle filmmaker Daniel Larson Sidhu forever. He came across the youngster in a sanctuary in South Africa while filming an expose into the way Aids is ravaging South Africa, orphaning children and tearing communities apart. The little girl was extremely ill and close to death but she still had a beaming smile on her face. Daniel, 40, recalls: "When we opened the door all these...

By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's richest countries are falling short on pledges made last year to provide Africa with life-saving AIDS drugs, expanded trade and increased aid, said rocker-activist Bono. Bono and fellow Irish rocker Bob Geldof have used their fame to fuel a campaign for Africa, organizing concerts last year to press leaders of rich countries at a meeting in Scotland to wipe out poverty. "They started out to climb an Everest but over the past year...

By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's richest countries are falling short on pledges made last year to provide Africa with life-saving AIDS drugs, expanded trade and increased aid, said rocker-activist Bono. Bono and fellow Irish rocker Bob Geldof have used their fame to fuel a campaign for Africa, organizing concerts last year to press leaders of rich countries at a meeting in Scotland to wipe out poverty. "They started out to climb an Everest but over the past year...

By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's richest countries are falling short on pledges made to Africa a year ago on providing life-saving AIDS drugs, expanding trade and boosting aid, said activist rock star Bono. Bono and fellow Irish rocker Bob Geldof have used their fame to fuel a global campaign for more aid to Africa, organizing Live 8 concerts around the world last year to press Group of Eight industrial leaders meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland, to wipe out...