British actress Elizabaeth Hurley will marry her Indian millionaire boyfriend Arun Nayar at Sudeley Castle in the south-west England county of Gloucestershire on Saturday. Tomorrow’s will be first of the two wedding ceremonies Liz and Arun will have. Five days later, they will have an elaborate exotic Indian-style wedding at the Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur where female guests have been asked to wear traditional Indian saris and the men orange turbans.

Meanwhile, in the town of Cotswold, on the outskirts of which the Sudeley Castle is located, police have ordered four days of traffic restrictions from today, leading to criticism from locals.

Hurley has reportedly requested for pigs, cows and sheep as wedding presents. She reportedly wants to run an organic farm and put her acting career on hold after she ties the knot. Her former boyfriend, Hugh Grant, has already sponsored a London Zoo monkey called “Elizabeth” as a wedding gift.

Diana case to have jury

• LONDON: The millionaire owner of Harrods department store, Mohamed al-Fayed, won a court battle on Friday to have a jury at the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and his son, Dodi Fayed. In an unusual ruling, three senior judges at London’s High Court overturned a decision by the deputy royal coroner that she would sit alone in determining what caused the deaths of the pair in an August 1997 car crash in Paris.

Da Vinci’s painting to be loaned

• FLORENCE: Italy plans to lend one of Leonardo da Vinci’s best known paintings to Japan this month but opponents say the plane trip could damage the masterpiece and are threatening to block the transfer. The Annunciation, a painting more than two metres long, is set to leave Florence’s Uffizi Gallery on March 12 in a crystal case designed to keep temperature and humidity levels stable and protect the 15th century artwork from earthquakes.

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