Atkinson injured in car crash
British comedy actor Rowan Atkinson, best known for playing the character Mr Bean, suffered a minor injury after the supercar he was driving crashed and caught fire, emergency services said Friday. Car enthusiast Atkinson needed hospital treatment Thursday after the McLaren F1 car he was driving spun off the road near the village of Haddon, eastern England, before crashing into a tree and a lamppost. The 56-year-old walked away from the accident before firefighters arrived and put out the blaze. “We were called to the scene of a single vehicle collision on the A605 near Haddon at about 7.30 pm on Thursday,” a local police spokesman said. “The driver of the vehicle, a man, was taken to Peterborough City Hospital.”
A police source confirmed the man involved was Atkinson. An ambulance spokesman said the casualty had suffered “a minor shoulder injury.”
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Winehouse duet with Tony to be charity single
London: A duet recorded by Amy Winehouse and music legend Tony Bennett shortly before the British singer’s death will be released as a charity single with proceeds going to a foundation set up by her father. The pair recorded jazz classic Body and Soul at London’s famous Abbey Road studios in March. It was one of the last songs Winehouse recorded before her death on July 23.
The song was intended for Bennett’s upcoming album Duets II but will now be released as a single on September 20 with royalties going to Mitch Winehouse’s anti-drugs charity, according to the 85-year-old singer. “What’s going to happen is that we’re putting that (Body and Soul) out ahead of the album,” Bennett told MTV. “It’s going to a foundation that her father started, to teach all the young children not to take drugs, and all the royalties of the record will go to that,” added the US crooner. Mitch Winehouse said in a statement that he “couldn’t be happier”.
—AFP
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