Judi Dench wants to see Richard III buried in York A date for the hearing has yet to be fixed, and, in the meantime, plans for Richard III's burial in Leicester are advancing swiftly. In the spring, I disclosed how the Duke of Gloucester, as patron of The Richard III Society, had held a meeting at Kensington Palace, attended by the Rt Rev Timothy Stevens, the Bishop of Leicester, Jennifer, Lady Gretton, Leicestershire's Lord Lieutenant, and Dr Philip Stone, the society's chairman. Dr Stone told me the overriding concern of the Duke was that the remains should be treated, at all times, with the "utmost respect." Prince Michael of Kent, for his part, told me: "If only we could choose where our bodies are unearthed. I did feel for King Richard when I learnt that he had been located beneath a council car park in Leicester. No sex, please Within half an hour of the curtain going up on Top Hat on Saturday night, I was with, Vivien Parry, left, and Stephen Boswell still being put through my paces on the stage of the Aldwych Theatre for my forthcoming debut on Sept 18. "It seems to me that the shiny black raincoat you are going to have wear as the boatman could all too easily look a bit kinky," Vivien advised me, helpfully. Accordingly, the way you walk is going to be most important. Don't try doing anything fancy with the walk or it will get us into all sorts of problems. Fenton Gray, my long-suffering director, remains mystifyingly optimistic about it all. Least said In the bad old days, when cash, hospitality, jobs and even a horse used to pass between the Metropolitan Police and Rupert Murdoch's hirelings, there was no question about which newspapers got first dibs on the big crime stories. Now, the policy seems to be "don't ask, don't tell," which is all well and good if anyone had thought to ask last week whether or not there happened to have been a break-in at Buckingham Palace. "It is quite correct that we were not pro-actively informing journalists about what had happened," a Scotland Yard spokesman tells me. Even Murdoch's men are not happy about that. "They decided they would only tell reporters about the burglary 'if asked," - a shoddy attempt at news/reputation management," one complains. Good Evans It was touching to see Chris Evans, the disc jockey, walking down the aisle with his 26-year-old daughter Jade over the weekend. At the age of 11, when she was living with her mother Alison Ward on a council estate in Warrington, she told me she wanted nothing to do with her "ugly" father. At the time, Alison, who had been battling with Evans's lawyers to get him to acknowledge his financial responsibilities to his child, told me: "It's been difficult for Jade having a father who has always refused to let her into his life." Evans, who was 21 when Jade was born, regrets how he originally behaved towards Alison and Jade. "It's the one thing I wish I could go back and change," he says.