Mills in supermarket ban

Paul McCartney's estranged wife Heather Mills is suffering further embarrassment in the British press after reports she was evicted from a supermarket over a 20-year-old shoplifting ban.

Mills, who has been lambasted in tabloid newspapers since the marriage breakdown for her alleged pornographic past, was reportedly booted out of a Sainsbury's supermarket in Tyne and Wear, northern England, at the weekend.

British newspaper The Sun claims a store worker recognised the former model after she was caught shoplifting there as a teenager.

However, a Sainsbury's spokesman rubbishes reports of a ban, insisting: "We can confirm Heather Mills McCartney would be most welcome to shop in any of our stores."

Mills has made no secret of her criminal past. In her autobiography Out on a Limb she reveals: "By 10 I was an old hand. Pinching food was really quite easy, I discovered."