Mel B is planning to install an underground tunnel from her £2.25 million home because she does not want to brave the elements. The 33-yard tunnel will even have spiral staircases at each end.

It was reported that Mel C bought her younger brother(Paul) a high performance sports car after telling him to choose any car he wanted at a car show. He had a nice selection including a £233,000 Aston Martin, a Ferrari, a Rolls Royce, and he had gone to the show wanting a BMW. In the end he chose a black £29,950 2.5 litre Trident Ventura of which there are only 250 manufactured each year. The car can go from 0 to 60mph in 6.2 seconds and has a top speed of 155mph. The car show was at the National Exhibition Centre 2 days ago.

Mel B finally decided to ask for a full report of her to be baby and had a scan and found out that it will be a GIRL! Mel had been going back and forth and couldn't decide if she wanted to know or not. Mel was "blissfully happy" about the news. She was on the phone with Victoria right away after finding out. Mel also found out that she is to deliver her child only days after Victoria is to deliver her SON in March!

For the Goodbye single release due on the 14th of December, Virgin Records is launching an internet teaser campaign.A different visual will appear each day on the official site. The teasing begins on December 1st.

Record store HMV has predicted that the Spice Girls will make it three years in a row and top the Christmas singles chart. The girls' seasonal single Goodbye will face tough competition from Boyzone's I Love The Way You Love Me. And Christmas chart-topping veteran Sir Cliff Richard will also be in the race with Vita Mia, BBC Radio 1's The Net reported.

Victoria was once again thrown out of an establishment recently. She was in a branch of the WH Smith stores to purchase some wrapping paper. As she tried to pay for it she was mobbed by fans that had noticed her and wanted an autograph. She started signing them and a line quickly built up. The line was considerably long and after a small amount of time the manager of the store asked her if she would move out of the way because she and her line of fans were blocking other customers from making purchases. Allegedly after asking her 3 times to move the manager finally asked her to leave as she was still signing autographs. Some say that Victoria swore at the manager and left. Either way she was rather embarrassed at the whole incident as she left the store.

Mel C got a haircut and it looks quite different from what she used to have.

Victoria and David Beckham flew on a private jet to Puerto Banus and are expected to return today. The Spice Girls are suing Italian motorbike firm Aprilia (yeah, the guys that sponsered the girls' world tour and are promoted by them) for failing to pay them £212,000 in earnings and royalties. And finally Emma And Mel C will be chatting today on the official Spice Girls homepage at C3. The exact date and time is Wednesday October 21st at 4.30pm UK Time. The URL is http://c3.vmg.co.uk/spicegirls/

The Spice Girls and American rocker Chrissie Hynde have taken up the cause of 30 young captive elephants in South Africa, appealing to President Nelson Mandela to help return the pachyderms to the wild. The elephants were captured in neighboring Botswana's Tuli Reserve last year as part of a population control move and were sold to Riccardo Ghiazza, a wild animal trainer of South African-based African Games Services. ``I pray that their walk to freedom will not be as long as yours was,'' Hynde, who fronted the rock band the Pretenders, said in a letter to Mandela.

The Spice Girls, who met the South African president last year, said in their letter: ``Please help these frightened baby elephants feel the comfort and love of their mothers once again.'' A South African court has granted the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) custody of the animals at a compound outside Pretoria after questions were raised about the conditions in which they were held. Ghiazza has appealed the court decision, prompting a magistrate to order an on-site inspection by independent experts. The Spice Girls also called on Mandela to ask Botswana to ban further captures of elephants in the large but sparsely populated country.

Pregnant Posh Spice, Victoria Adams, is threatening legal action over reports that her fiance David Beckham had been unfaithful. Earlier this month, it was reported that the Manchester United football star had had secret dates with Page Three model Emma Ryan, 23. The trysts are said to have taken place while Ms Adams, 24, who is five months pregnant with Beckham's baby, was away on the Spice Girls' world tour and ended when she returned from America.

In another report, it was alleged that Beckham, 23, was still "in touch" with a former girlfriend. Speaking for the first time about the reports, Ms Adams told the Daily Mail:

"I trust David 110%. I've found the person I want to spend the rest of my life with. "These stories are so ludicrous that we are going to take legal action. "The truth is we are stronger than ever and both looking forward to having the baby. The reports haven't damaged our relationship at all. "The only thing that matters is that we love and trust each other and our families are okay. "If people want to believe what they are reading, that's up to them."

Posh and Beckham announced their engagement in January but said they would get married until the summer of next year. The Spice Girls are currently working on their third album - their first without Ginger Spice Geri Halliwell.

In other news - Emma and Mel C are to present an award at the MTV Europe Music Awards.

Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell is to follow in the footsteps of Audrey Hepburn by becoming a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations. Ms Halliwell, 26, is due to meet with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in New York on Tuesday to discuss taking on the role. Sir Elton John was reported as having cancelled an appointment with Mr Annan last week because of "overwork". It was intended that he become a "messenger of peace" to publicise the UN's campaigns against Aids through the charities he has set up to combat the disease.

Halliwell's role will be to help combat the spread of Aids by promoting safer sex. Busy with other charity work She has been busy with other charity work since she left the Spice Girls in May. In September she agreed to front a breast cancer awareness campaign, and spoke of the breast cancer scare that she went through when she was 18. She said then: "It's really nice to be able to give something back. I'm an energetic person, I'm a real worker. If I can make a difference I'm happy to do that." Last week she travelled to Uganda to make a film for Comic Relief. Hollywood legend Audrey Hepburn was a UN ambassador, but Halliwell has a long way to go before she matches the example of actor Sir Peter Ustinov.

In August, the UN's Secretary-General paid tribute to Sir Peter's 30 years of working with the UN. "His qualifictions are unbeatable," Mr Annan said. "He speaks French, German, English, Italian, Russian, Spanish and even some Turkish and Greek. He could double as a representative of all the member states." Other British celebrities working for the UN include Robbie Williams who travelled to Sri Lanka recently with veteran rock star Ian Dury on a Unicef mission.

Warner Bros. will release the soundtrack for the movie "Jack Frost" on November 24th to which the Spice Girls contributed their song "Sleigh Ride".

Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell is returning to a pop career, according to a newspaper report. Ms Halliwell, 26, has signed with Chrysalis Records, the Sun newspaper reports. She is believed to have picked the label after seeing how former Take That heart-throb Robbie Williams's solo career took off with it.The contract is thought to be for three albums.

If the report is true, it will come as a surprise to pundits who believed she was trying for a career in TV or Hollywood. She had been linked with a movie remake of the Charlie's Angels TV series, and DJ-turned-media mogul Chris Evans had reportedly been advising her on her career.

Her Spice Girls contract with Virgin prevented her from releasing any new material for three months - but she is set to announce the new deal next week, according to the paper.

Halliwell quit the Spice Girls at the end of May while the group were midway through their Spiceworld tour. Since leaving the group she has kept a relatively low profile, with one of her few public appearances being at an auction of her old Spice outfits in September. Another was at the American MTV awards in Los Angeles. She has also supported cancer charities - appearing in a series of cinema advertisements urging women to be aware of the risk of breast cancer. When she was 18, Halliwell suffered a cancer scare.

The Spice Girls' Viva Forever performance with tenor Luciano Pavarotti has been immortalised in a charity recording to be released later this month. The girls' appearance at the Modena concert in Italy in June was their first official date as a four-piece after the departure of Geri Halliwell. Pavarotti And Friends For The Children Of Liberia is released on October 26.

With 11 weeks to go until Christmas, the Spice Girls are bookies’ favourites to hold the Christmas number one spot for the third year in a row. William Hill has tipped them as 4-6 favourites. Their single, Goodbye, is released on December 14 and would give them their third consecutive Christmas number one following last year’s Too Much and Two Become One in 1996.

A spokesman for the bookmaker says, “We’ve been tipping the Spice Girls since Boxing Day 1997. The highest odds we’ve had were 8-1 when there were rumours about the break-up.” Odds fell in July when it was revealed that the act were recording a Christmas single. Other artists tipped include Boyzone, All Saints, B*Witched and Cliff Richard.

Although released a few weeks earlier than the Spice Girls on November 30, the odds for Cliff Richard’s cover of Bob Carlisle’s international hit Butterfly Kisses may shorten since the single is expected to perform strongly. Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston’s planned duet is also likely to be a strong contender.

Spice Girls 4-6
Boyzone 12-1
All Saints, B*Witched 14-1
Cliff Richard, Robbie Williams, Steps 20-1
Billie, Fat Les, Five, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston 25-1

Footballer David Beckham's relationship with Victoria Adams remains strong despite reports that England ace had secret dates with a Page Three model, a spokesman for the band said. The Manchester United midfield star passionately kissed Emma Ryan in an encounter at a friend's house after the pair met at a Manchester restaurant, according to a report in the Sun. The paper said the trysts took place while Victoria was away on the Spice Girls' world tour and ended when she returned from America. But a spokesman for the chart-topping group said that the couple were still very much together.

Geri Halliwell has become an official spokesperson for the Comic Relief charity and is flying to Africa to visit various projects arranged by the organisation. Film footage, from the visit, will be broadcast in the run up to Red Nose Day next March. Geri appeared with the The Spice Girls in 1997, on the Red Nose Day TV show, which raised £26 million. Geri also launched the October Breast Cancer Awareness Month, this week. She said: 'At the end of the day, people can perceive me how they want to. I'm just Geri Halliwell, that's who I am. I'm just trying to do my best in life'

Mel C has reportedly splashed out £200,000 on a waterfront apartment, ending 24 years of living with her mum. The mega star, worth millions of pounds, was still in a bedroom at mother Joan O'Neill's luxury home in Widnes, Cheshire - which Sporty bought after shooting to fame - before deciding to finally fly the nest. But Mel C has moved only 15 miles down the road, to Liverpool's trendy Albert Dock, a mix of up-market shops, bars, flats and the Tate Gallery of the north.

The Spice Girls are up for two nominations including best pop and best group at the MTV Europe Music Awards. The fifth edition of the MTV Europe Music Awards will be held Nov. 12 in Milan. Jenny McCarthy is scheduled to host and performers include All Saints, Madonna and R.E.M.