Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills arrived in court today for a last ditch attempt at hammering out an amicable deal in the most celebrated and potentially most costly divorce battle in British legal history.

Miss Mills arrived first in a car at the back of First Avenue House, an annexe of the Royal Courts of Justice in Holborn.

She was taken from the car with a blanket covering her head in a vain attempt to thwart the scores of photographers who ...