Former Pink Floyd star Roger Waters (pictured) has said the Falkland Islands should belong to Argentina, according to a TV presenter who interviewed him.
Chilean host Amaro Gomez-Pablos claimed 68-year-old Waters made the comments in an interview to be broadcast in his country today.
The bass player, who was just five months old when the father he never met was killed during the Second World War, is in Chile to perform a live version of The Wall, which has a strong anti-conflict theme.
Gomez-Pablos – an anchor for Chile’s public broadcaster TVN – said Mr Waters told him: “The Falklands are Argentinean.”
Gomez-Pablos also claimed on his Twitter account that Mr Waters – due to play nine dates in Buenos Aires beginning next week – said he was “ashamed” of Britain’s colonial past.
Mugabe ‘joke’ lands man in court
A Zimbabwean man has appeared in court for joking in a bar about whether President Robert Mugabe was strong enough to blow up the balloons for his 88th birthday party last week, his lawyersaid yesterday.
Richmore Chazi was arrested as he was drinking with friends in a bar in Mutare while watching the live coverage of Mr Mugabe’s birthday rally held in the eastern city on Saturday.
“Chazi is being charged for insulting and undermining the authority of the President and will come back to court on March 12 for routine remand,” his lawyer Blessing Nyamaropa said.
He has been released on $20 bail when he appeared in court on Monday.
Zimbabwe police regularly arrest people who joke about Mr Mugabe, who has ruled the country since independence from Britain in 1980.
Listed status for ex-Beatles’ homes
The childhood homes of former Beatles John Lennon and Sir Paul McCartney in Liverpool have become listed buildings, it has been revealed.
UK Heritage Minister John Penrose made the announcement from Mendips (pictured), the house at 251 Menlove Avenue in Woolton, south Liverpool, where Lennon first learned to play the guitar.
The terraced house where Sir Paul lived for nine years at nearby 20 Forthlin Road, and where the Beatles rehearsed and wrote some of their most famous songs, was also listed a Grade II building.
Mr Penrose said: “I think they (The Beatles) are tremendously important, not just to Liverpool and Britain, but the worldwide music scene owes them a huge debt and you still get bands in all kinds of music and in all countries citing them as one of the things that was a formative influence even after all these years.”