AN ENGLISH mother whose 14-year-old daughter was allowed to have a secret abortion without her knowledge after talks with school advisers yesterday said it had left the schoolgirl “traumatised”.

If you must re-make one of cinema's great classics - in this case the delicious Sharade, which was directed by Stanley Donen and starred the brilliant Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant - why make such a dismal hash of it?