International: Former Playboy model wins £310m share of oil fortune

The decision to award $449 million to Anna Nicole Smith, who married J Howard Marshall, an oil billionaire, when he was 89 and she was a 25-year-old stripper, may raise eyebrows. It is in fact a heartening legal endorsement of the importance of marriage - the sort of endorsement that should be held up as a model over here, where tax laws are so rarely a friend to wedlock.