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The parents of Falcon Heene, the six-year-old boy who sparked a major rescue operation after he was wrongly believed to have been carried away inside a helium weather balloon, are likely to face charges imminently, police said today.The announcement came as a friend of the Heene family described how Falcon's father, Richard, had previously discussed a possible media hoax involving a balloon to drum up interest in a reality TV series the family hoped to make.Deputies from the Larimer county sheriff's office again searched the family home in Fort Collins, Colorado, last night, taking away several boxes and a computer.
The parents of Falcon Heene, the six-year-old boy who sparked a major rescue operation after he was wrongly believed to have been carried away inside a helium weather balloon, are likely to face charges imminently, police said today.
The announcement came as a friend of the Heene family described how Falcon's father, Richard, had previously discussed a possible media hoax involving a balloon to drum up interest in a reality TV series the family hoped to make.
Deputies from the Larimer county sheriff's office again searched the family home in Fort Collins, Colorado, last night, taking away several boxes and a computer.
A BUBBLY, blonde divorcée, Sylvie Brunel has more than an inkling as to why President Nicolas Sarkozy seems so fond of her ex-husband, the minister of immigration and national identity. "They're the same," she explained with a giggle. She was referring not to the president's political convictions but to one of the reasons for her recent divorce from Eric Besson, her husband of 25 years: his serial infidelities, including his present relationship with a woman "almost as young as our eldest daughter". France is well known for its tolerance of politicians' peccadilloes, and Sarkozy, the first French leader to divorce and marry in office, has done more than his share to keep alive the presidential tradition of amorous exploits. Brunel, nevertheless, is breaching a taboo by parading her former husband's betrayal in public. Her book, the first about a serving minister by his ex-wife, has been widely seen as an act of delicious revenge against the 51-year-old father of her three children, a former socialist who became known as "the traitor" after defecting to Sarkozy's camp during the presidential election.
A BUBBLY, blonde divorcée, Sylvie Brunel has more than an inkling as to why President Nicolas Sarkozy seems so fond of her ex-husband, the minister of immigration and national identity.
"They're the same," she explained with a giggle. She was referring not to the president's political convictions but to one of the reasons for her recent divorce from Eric Besson, her husband of 25 years: his serial infidelities, including his present relationship with a woman "almost as young as our eldest daughter".
France is well known for its tolerance of politicians' peccadilloes, and Sarkozy, the first French leader to divorce and marry in office, has done more than his share to keep alive the presidential tradition of amorous exploits.
Brunel, nevertheless, is breaching a taboo by parading her former husband's betrayal in public. Her book, the first about a serving minister by his ex-wife, has been widely seen as an act of delicious revenge against the 51-year-old father of her three children, a former socialist who became known as "the traitor" after defecting to Sarkozy's camp during the presidential election.
Top story in the Sunday newspapers is by my colleague Jane Merrick, about the BBC rewriting Humpty Dumpty so that it ends with all the King's horses and all the King's men who "made Humpty happy again". This had been spotted by Tom Harris, Labour MP, former transport minister and all round good egg, who was watching CBeebies with his children and who mentions it in his blog about political correctness today
(look down to the poem as the comment) Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
