And what's more . . .

Dancers at the English National Ballet have been banned from sun-bathing because theatre lights would make their tanned legs look purple . . . A recording of John Lennon singing with his original group, the Quarrymen, made on the day he first met Paul McCartney, is to be sold at Sotheby's on 15 September. It is expected to fetch more than pounds 100,000 . . .