Paul McCartney has joined the fight against litter on Britain’s beaches - designing his own surfboard to raise funds for the campaign.

The former Beatle is concerned about the state of seaside resorts in his native U.K. and is backing an initiative by Surfers Against Sewage - aiming to clean up beaches around the country.

McCartney has designed an eco-friendly surfboard which will go under the hammer at London auction house Bonhams in October.

Other stars to have joined the campaign include British artists Tracey Emin and Gavin Turk.

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Paul McCartney has fuelled rumors he is set to wed American heiress Nancy Shevell after allegedly seeking out their families’ approval of their union.

The couple sparked reports they were set to walk down the aisle in April after McCartney was spotted shopping at top London jewellers S.J. Phillips for an apparent engagement ring.

And the pair have reportedly sought the blessing of their families, reports Britain’s News of the World newspaper.

A source tells the publication, “Paul’s utterly enchanted with Nancy and he’s already rolling the idea of marriage around in his head. He adores everything about her. He thinks she’s ‘The One’ and told (his daughter) Stella as much.

“He said, ‘What would you say if I asked Nancy to be the next Mrs McCartney?’ And she joked back, ‘At least she’s financially independent.’ The whole family thinks Nancy’s great - a vast improvement on Paul’s last love interest.”

Earlier this month the pair embarked on a road trip across America - and are said to have journeyed 1,000 miles from New York to Springfield, Illinois.

The source adds: “They’ve been with each other 24/7 - a perfect way to see if they’re suitable for marriage. Paul’s not about to rush into anything, but he’s happier than he’s been for years. They’ve got so much in common. He knows Heather was a mistake, although he loves their little one (daughter) Bea more than anything, and won’t be put off by a bad divorce experience.”

Meanwhile Shevell, 47, is reportedly rushing to finalize her own divorce to U.S. lawyer Bruce Blakeman.

The source continues, “Nancy and Bruce have been separated a long time but her relationship with Paul has spurred them on to finally dissolve the marriage. They’ve moved on with their lives and Bruce approves of Paul. It’s all amicable.”

McCartney and his second wife, Heather Mills, were divorced last year, resulting in a $46 million settlement being paid to Mills.

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Paul McCartney has broken his silence on his relationship with ex-wife Heather Mills in a new song.

The former Beatle finalized his divorce from the former glamour model earlier this year and has consistently refused to talk about his former spouse in public.

But McCartney has now revealed his torment about the breakdown of his second marriage in a new ballad, titled My Soul, taken from his forthcoming album London Undersound.

The lyrics reference the former couple’s struggle with the paparazzi and “secrets” that were kept from him.

He sings; “I want to know all your secrets. How could this steal all these feelings? How could they lie to the world? A picture away from your smile. One heart replaced. Feelings displaced. Invade our space.”

A source tells British newspaper the Daily Mail, “What the song shows is that Paul just feels sorry for her. He feels sorry that she was never able to tell him the full truth about her past life. Paul knows Heather is a complex person, and deeply misunderstood, but she has hardly helped herself by being less than transparent about her life.”

McCartney and Mills split in 2006 and have a four-year-old daughter, Beatrice. McCartney’s first wife Linda died of cancer in 1998.

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Heather Mills’ former publicist has taken aim at the charity queen in a bid to recoup the $100,000 she claims the ex-Mrs. Paul McCartney owes her for her services.

Michele Elyzabeth resigned as Mills’ media representative earlier this month following a series of rows with the former model. And now she’s going public with her take on her former client, alleging the videotaped footage of an abusive McCartney she threatened to show to the court during the couple’s high-profile divorce battle never existed.

Elyzabeth dropped the bombshell during a recent taped interview with news show Access Hollywood, which aired in America on Monday.

Mills’ former rep said, “I really don’t believe she did (have the video). I was close enough and I heard a couple of conversations. Now that I know what I know, I don’t really think that Paul really went after her for anything. She had basically nothing - she had tapes of her being in the studio with him, her being on the road with him, private moments. She told me a bunch of stuff… (but) I don’t see him being a violent person.”

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Paul McCartney turned his free concert as part of Quebec City’s 400th anniversary celebration into a Beatles sing-a-long on Sunday when he played a string of Fab Four hits.

The rocker opened the Plains of Abraham outdoor show with Wings classic Jet, but then wowed fans with a medley of Beatles tunes, including Drive My Car, All My Loving, Got To Get You Into My Life, Blackbird, and Eleanor Rigby, among others.

An estimated crowd of 200,000 gathered for the free show.

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Paul McCartney is to play a historic gig in Israel 40 years after The Beatles were banned from the country, according to reports.

The Fab Four were due to play a concert in the Middle Eastern region in 1965, but they were banished after the then-government refused to grant the necessary permits over fears their music would corrupt Israeli youths.

Officials revoked the banning order earlier this year and now McCartney is reportedly set to perform in front of 250,000 fans in the capital Tel Aviv in September.

A source tells British newspaper The Sun, “Paul is desperate to put Israel on the map of places he has performed.”

The gig is said to be part of the country’s 60th anniversary celebrations to mark its founding in 1948.

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I Want to Hold Your Hand. And they did.

So says Paul McCartney, speaking for the first time of his final moments with fellow Beatle George Harrison, who was succumbing to cancer.

“We held hands,” McCartney, 66, tells Britain’s Uncut magazine. “It’s funny, even at the height of our friendship, as guys, you’d never hold hands.”

“I sat with him for a few hours when he was in treatment about 10 days from his death,” McCartney says of Harrison, who died in 2001, at the age of 58. “We joked about things – just amusing, nutty stuff. It was good. It was like we were dreaming.”

McCartney, who first met Harrison on a bus while the two were schoolboys in Liverpool, said the guitarist was more than a friend – he was family.

“He was my little baby brother, almost, because I’d known him that long.”

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