OBR interim chairman Sir Alan Budd (left, with George Osborne), is expected to face searching questions at the Treasury committee next Tuesday. Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe Pool/EPA Fears rose last night that job losses in the public sector will be higher than forecast by George Osborne’s... 

Autopsy tools auction withdrawn … Elvis Presley in 1973. Photograph: AP An auction of instruments allegedly used in Elvis Presley’s autopsy has been cancelled. “Due to questions of ownership,” the retired embalmer behind the sale will instead “donate” the... 

Cheryl Cole at the 63rd Cannes international film festival. Photograph: Matt Sayles/AP Cheryl Cole is in hospital after being infected with malaria during a holiday in Tanzania three weeks ago, her spokesman confirmed today. The singer was initially diagnosed with exhaustion after collapsing... 

‘A fiercely bright, posh, confident chap’ . . . Ben Schott. Photograph: Francesco Guidicini / Rex Features Ben Schott, presenting Almanacs – The Oldest Guide to Everything (Radio 4), is a fiercely bright, posh, confident chap. He has reason to exude confidence, given that he...