Katy Perry's film is no joke for profane Russell Brand

Middletons motor

The Duchess of Cambridge took delivery of an Audi, which offers members of the Royal family a 60 per cent discount, four years before she married Prince William. Does her brother, James Middleton, have his eye on an even more expensive motor?

This week, the cake-maker, who was educated at Marlborough College, attended the launch of the Bentley Continental V8, which costs at least 123,850, at HR Owen, the luxury car dealer, in Mayfair.

Middleton, who turns 25 in April, was given a personal tour of the showroom. James is a big fan of fast cars, says one of his chums. He currently owns a Range Rover Evoque, which costs from 28,000 and has an interior designed by Victoria Beckham.

Perverting the course of homework

Trumpeted as a clean pair of hands as Energy Secretary, Ed Davey has a skeleton in his closet. The Liberal Democrat allegedly once conspired with Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor.

The pair were privately educated at Nottingham High School, where Davey is said to have allowed his economics homework to be copied by the future Labour minister.

Balls insists that it was all above board. Ed Davey was in the year above me and lent me his A-Level history notes, which I think had been passed down by his older brother, he says. Over to you, Davey