Hang about... wasn't Macca supposed to be dating a Republican?

The yammering excitement whenever Paul McCartney comes within touching distance of a woman has been set off by the News of the World deciding he's dating Rosanna Arquette.

The most striking thing about the paper's piece isn't the way James Desborough gets excited by the secrecy involved in McCartney hanging out with Arquette:

The couple spent more than two hours at the house, where Macca has a shrine to his late wife Linda.

They then left together, with Rosanna hiding in the back of the car.

Eventually, the motor pulled up beside an empty black cab.

Macca then led Rosanna to the taxi, hugging her for a few seconds before it whisked her back to the nearby home of her pals, songwriter Amanda Ghost and film director Gregor Cameron.

It doesn't seem to occur to Desborough that this could just be a couple of mates hanging out, and the "cloak and dagger stuff" that's made him a little excited could be to try and spare the tabloids jumping to conclusions rather than to keep secret a relationship.

But, no, more striking is the paper's bizarre insistence that Arquette is "Heather Mills' double" - in that both have a vaguely similar colour of hair, and are women, presumably.