A Florida appeals court today issued a stay in the dispute over Anna Nicole Smith’s body, ruling that her remains cannot be moved to the Bahamas until the court hears a challenge from the starlet’s estranged mother.

A US judge last night expressed doubt that he had jurisdiction to get involved in the paternity dispute over Anna Nicole Smith’s baby daughter, a day after the starlet’s remains were ordered to be buried in the Bahamas next to those of her son.

The drawn-out US court battle over what to do with Anna Nicole Smith’s body has a new sense of urgency – the starlet’s remains are decomposing more quickly than expected and a public viewing could be in danger.

Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy playmate whose bizarre life careened from marriage to an octogenarian billionaire to the untimely death of her son, died today after collapsing at a Florida hotel, her lawyer said.

In a ceremony punctuated by screams and cries, reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith attended the funeral of her son in the Bahamas, nearly six weeks after he mysteriously died while visiting her in the hospital where she had given birth to a daughter.

A lawyer for Anna Nicole Smith today said he was the father of the reality TV star’s newborn girl, who has been the couple’s one “ray of hope” as they have grieved the death of her 20-year-old son in the Bahamas.

A appeals court has declined to reconsider a ruling that former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith is not entitled to €67m from the estate of her late husband.

THE pay-by-weight refuse collection system which Cork County Council intends to introduce in the North Cork area next year is seriously flawed.