Bitter Macca Divorce Row

The divorce battle between Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills is getting seriously bitter.

Macca has frozen the joint bank account after Heather allegedly withdrew 1m in a month.

He also reportedly changed the locks on their north London home when Heather was out with their daughter Bea in nearby Regent`s Park.

Paul, 64, and Heather, 38, split up in May after seven years together.

Macca, who`s worth around 1bn, filed for divorce last month citing Heather`s unreasonable behaviour.

He claims Heather reneged on a deal to take 30m for a quickie divorce - but she insists no financial deal has ever been discussed.

A source told the Sunday Mirror: "Sir Paul has well and truly cut the cord. The gloves are off."

And another told The Mail: "He has always been very generous with his money, especially towards Heather and their charities, but now that they are divorcing, the maxim "What`s mine is yours" no longer applies."

Paul has also reportedly:
* Cited her rudeness to him in front of staff as one of the reasons for her split.

* Had his solicitor send Heather a legal letter after her nanny took three half-empty bottles of cleaning fluid from his Sussex farmhouse to clean Heather`s nearby office. Fired seven people from his New York offices - because he wants to cut all ties with Heather.

* Pulled out of performing at an anti-landmine charity event - because of Heather`s involvement with the charity.

* Given up on a fight to stop the demolition of a timber lodge on his Sussex estate, which Heather had previously moved into.

source:Sky Showbiz

JK Rowling gets honorary law degree for MS support

LONDON (Reuters) - "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling received an honorary law degree from the University of Aberdeen on Thursday to mark her support for research into multiple sclerosis.

"I am thrilled, it is very exciting," she said about the degree, which she said was "particularly meaningful" to her.

Rowling, whose mother died aged 45 from MS in 1990, has helped fund a programme of research at the university into the debilitating condition.

She became patron of the MS Society Scotland in 2001 after discovering what she has described as the "appallingly poor quality of care" available to people with the condition in Scotland.

"I am particularly pleased to support the work that the University`s Institute of Medical Sciences is doing on MS research," Rowling said.

"As the patron of the MS Society Scotland, and someone with personal experience of the devastating effects of MS, it is a great privilege to be able to help the Institute continue its pioneering work into the causes and effects of multiple sclerosis."

The 40-year-old writer has already been honoured for her contribution to literature by three other Scottish universities, St Andrews, Edinburgh and Napier.

Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter adventure when she was an unemployed single mother in Edinburgh, but has gone on to become one of the richest authors in history.

The Potter series has sold an estimated 300 million copies worldwide.