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Scotty ashes missing in mountains

A rocket containing the ashes of Star Trek actor James Doohan has not yet been found, two weeks after it returned from the edge of space.

A portion of Doohan's ashes, along with 200 others, were launched from a site in New Mexico on 28 April.

The rocket reached its planned altitude of 72.7 miles (117 kms) before coming down in a mountainous area.

Operator Space Services Inc said the craft had locator beacons, but that bad weather had hampered the search.

Doohan played Scotty, the Enterprise's straight-talking engineer, in the original TV series and several movies.

Recovery operation

He died aged 85 in 2005 after suffering from Alzheimers for several years.

Also on the flight were the ashes of astronaut L Gordon Cooper, one of the first men into space.

Space Services offer several types of memorial flights, including putting remains into orbit or sending them into space before returning them to earth.

A company spokesman said: "The terrain is very mountainous; it's not somewhere that you can walk or drive to. My understanding is that it will take some time to get up there."

"They know the general location, and we have the utmost confidence that they will recover it."

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You're like coal to a miner
It's so hard to get you out of there
When you're so far down
When you're older and wiser you can't believe the things you'd done
When you were young and dumb

And you thought it would be fun to see if you could get away with it
Fun to see how long that you could stay with it

Chorus
I don't want to sound childish
I know it can be done
You can live how you wanna live
You can live with anyone
I don't want to sound crazy
But I know it can be
We could have tea

You're like explosives to fire
Never knowing when you might go off
When you'll blow your top
Like a madman for hire you can't last long enough in town
when the jobs come round

Don't wanna have to light the fuse and run away
You'll have to find a use for you someday

Chorus

So you better get up on the wire
Better balance out that act
That's a fact
Before you get thrown in the fire
Thinkin' 'bout the things you could have done
When you were quite young

You don't wanna be talkin' bout the things you could have done
Gonna need a talking to and you're the only one.
 
Knightley wins weight libel claim

Actress Keira Knightley has accepted £3,000 High Court libel damages over a newspaper article about her weight.

The Daily Mail published a photograph of the 22-year-old on a beach, with remarks about her weight in an article about a girl who had died of anorexia.

Ms Knightley's solicitor said "deeply offensive" suggestions could imply she had an eating disorder and bore responsibility for the girl's death.

The damages will be donated to eating disorder charity Beat.

Ms Knightley, whose Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End opens in cinemas this week, was filming in Wales and could not be at London's High Court for the settlement.

Her mother, playwright Sharman Macdonald, and partner, actor Rupert Friend, were there to hear solicitor Simon Smith tell Mr Justice Eady that the suggestions in the January 2007 story were "entirely false".

The story, headed "If pictures like this one of Keira carried a health warning, my darling daughter might have lived", was published on 11 January 2007.

It was accompanied by a photograph of the actress wearing a bikini on holiday.

Mr Smith said that the article could be interpreted to suggest Ms Knightley bore personal responsibility for causing the death of 19-year-old Sophie Mazurek, and that she had set out to lose an excessive amount of weight by not eating properly.

It could further have been interpreted that she had developed an eating disorder, and been motivated to do this to satisfy the desire in the fashion and film industries for an impossibly stick-thin look.

Mr Smith said that, three days before the article appeared, the newspaper had published a story - "It's itsy bitsy teeny weeny Keira Knightley" - in which it referred to her emphatic denial that she suffered from anorexia.

As a result, he added, the later article suggested that she had dishonestly set out to mislead the public about her eating disorder and by claiming falsely that she did not suffer from anorexia.

Healthy eating

He went on to say that Ms Knightley had - through her lawyers - offered her sincere sympathies to Sophie's mother and family for their loss.

Mr Smith said that Ms Knightley accepted that she had from time to time exercised for roles in action films which did alter physical appearance.

But he added that her weight had never fluctuated more than a few pounds throughout her adult life, and she continued to eat healthily and maintain a regular fitness regime.

Kate Wilson, solicitor for Associated Newspapers, which has also agreed to reimburse Ms Knightley's costs, offered its apologies.

"The defendant accepts that the claimant does not bear responsibility for Sophie's death, does not have an eating disorder, and has not misled the public."

Ms Knightly will match the £3,000 damages before giving the money to charity.

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