TITBITS AND TITTLE TATTLE

Last updated : 08 September 2002 By Editor

WE JUST LIKED THE NAME

Posh’s father in The Mirror: "They knew it was going to be a boy several months ago and David just decided he liked Romeo.

"Everyone thought Brooklyn was conceived in the Brooklyn district of New York, but it was actually where Victoria found out she was pregnant."

A RING OF STEEL

The NOTW claim that Becks is spending £850 per day on security guards.

From The paper:

Becks happily pays £850 a day for the minders.

the couple insisted that one of the guards is a woman - an undercover Army veteran - so she can shadow Posh and conduct body searches if necessary.

They have built a double ring of steel of high fences round Beckingham Palace.

They have spent hundreds of thousands on watchtowers, floodlights, CCTV and sensors to form an exclusion zone where guard dogs roam loose.

DIADORA HAPPY WITH ROY

fromThe MIrror:

The under-fire Manchester United captain, sent off at Sunderland last weekend and also on a double charge from the FA for his comments in his autobiography, will sign a new £600,000-a-year deal.

Diadora's sponsorship manager John Usher said: "We've no problem at all with Roy. We sponsor him for his footballing abilities and we have no complaints about that."