* A former KGB agent and an ex-MI5 officer are the brains behind a new TV series exposing the murky world of Britain's secret service.
Viktor Abramkin and Nick Day have worked with the makers of the BBC spy drama Spooks to provide a unique insight into the life of a
secret agent.
After years spent on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain, the men now work together as intelligence advisers.
Their involvement, along with former CIA agents, makes Spooks one of the most realistic portrayals of how MI5 works, according to BBC bosses.
Abramkin and Day's company, Diligence Information and Security, signs up ex-spies who carry out covert intelligence-gathering for corporate clients.
Spooks, starring Jenny Agutter, Lisa Faulkner and Hugh Laurie, starts screening next month.
* TV chef Jamie Oliver says he was shocked and hurt by media attacks.
Oliver came under fire in Britain after he made TV commercials for Sainsbury's supermarket. Critics suggested his "pukka" lifestyle, portrayed in the ads and on his show The Naked Chef, was faked.
The criticism stung all the more after the adulation he has received since making his TV debut four years ago.
"It was a shock," he said. "It's not like I got caught smoking joints or doing cocaine or anything."
