Madge's girl pens a tale

Pop queen Madonna's daughter has written a story for a fund-raising Christmas book, it was revealed today.

Lourdes Leon's story will feature in Christmas Stories, a book being launched by Selfridges on November 9 in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust.

Lourdes is following in her mother's foosteps, with Madonna having sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide of her first children's book, The English Roses.
Fourteen other celebrities have also contributed stories.

Boxer Audley Harrison writes about a little boy getting his first boxing gloves for Christmas while Tara Palmer-Tomkinson contributes a poem about a girl who lives in a cake.

X-Factor judge Sharon Osbourne writes about her British bulldog, Lola, while other contributors include Sarah, the Duchess of York, as well as David Hasselhoff, Michael Owen and Eamonn Holmes.