Bad Week: Michael Eavis, Paul Collingwood, curry lovers, Caroline Spellman

By Greg McDonald

It was a hard knock week for Michael Eavis as his Glastonbury preparations were hit by fire and everybody's favourite festival failed to sell out, with fans staying away from a more mainstream line up typified by rapper Jay-Z. Are the days of such magical Glasto moments as Radiohead in 1997 over? Surely not! Maybe old timers The Verve or Leonard Cohen might bring the fairydust in 2008.

It was a week England's one-day cricket captain Paul Collingwood might like to have ducked, as he went from hero to zero - banned for four internationals when England failed to bowl their overs against New Zealand, and then lost farcically thanks to a last-ball overthrow. Here's Colly with some throwing tips his team mates might like to to take heed of.

It was a bad week for curry lovers, and there are a few notables out there (no, we’re not talking about Sir John Major here). Shock news, korma fans – your favourite dish doesn’t exactly qualify as health food. And if you’re in any doubt that too much curry’s bad for you, just take a look at these guys.

Finally, even as her colleagues were quaffing champagne in Henley, it was a very bad week for Conservative party chairman Caroline Spellman, who dredged up memories of Tory sleaze when her own secretary Sally Hammond (wife of Tory frontbencher Stephen) snitched on her for paying her nanny public money to do approximately "no" secretarial work. So for Ms Spellman, as she pleads innocent, here to play us out this week is Elvis singing 'Sweet Caroline'.