Get to the Ritz fast .. 'Diana announcing pregnancy'

'Paparazzi photographers had been told to expect Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed to announce their engagement or a pregnancy on the night they died, the inquest heard yesterday. Thierry Orban, a photo-reporter with the Sygma photo agency, told the police his duty chief editor Guillaume Vall­abreque had phoned him at home between 9pm and 9.30pm to ask him to go the Ritz Hotel specifically because news was expected.'

So who was leaking this 'rumour' - the intelligence network or those representing Mohamed Al Fayed - because someone clearly was?

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Another witness: 'I saw blinding flashes'

'An American businessman who was in a taxi overtaken by Princess Diana’s Mercedes described last night seeing a “significant flash of light” a second before the crash. Brian Anderson said he saw the Mercedes being pursued by at least three motorcycles a few hundred yards before it reached the Alma tunnel.

And then suddenly, after they disappeared from view, there was a “pretty significant flash of light”. He said the light appeared to come from towards the front and left of his car – perhaps from boats on the River Seine – as it sped along the riverside expressway.'

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