Grant won’t face charges for claim of baked-bean attack

London – The heat’s been turned off on the Hugh Grant legume litigation.

The actor won’t be prosecuted for allegedly hurling baked beans at a photographer, Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service said Friday.

Grant, who also will not face charges for allegedly kicking the photographer, was arrested following the clash on April 24.

“We have advised the police that there is insufficient evidence to charge Hugh Grant with any offense in relation to an allegation that he kicked a photographer,” said a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with department policy.

“This is because there were clear discrepancies between the accounts of independent witnesses and those of the photographers involved,” she said.

“In relation to a second allegation involving a takeaway food container, the CPS decided that a prosecution would not be in the public interest.”

Katie Holmes says she’s ready for more children

Los Angeles – Being the mother of Tom Cruise’s baby daughter has been so much fun that Katie Holmes tells “Entertainment Tonight” she’s ready to have more children.

“We’re having the best time, it’s so amazing,” Holmes, 28, said of the year she and Cruise have spent largely out of the spotlight. She gave birth to the couple’s first child, Suri, in April 2006.

“Yes, definitely,” she told the TV program when asked about the possibility of more kids. The interview airs Monday.

Cruise and his ex-wife, Nicole Kidman, have a 12-year-old son and 15-year-old daughter, and Holmes said the role of stepmother is one she relishes.

“The kids are so sweet, they’re so great with Suri and she lights up when she sees them,” she said. “We have so many kids in our house, there’s always this wonderful chatter and the great noise of kids.”

The actress, who recently returned to work filming the movie “Mad Money” with Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah, said her 44-year-old husband has played a key role in making the transition to motherhood an easy one.

“He’s a great father and so it came to no shock that when we had Suri he was amazing with the baby,” she said.

Newman gives $10M to Ohio college for scholarship fund

Gambier, Ohio – Paul Newman is donating $10 million to Kenyon College to help start a scholarship fund, the private liberal arts school said.

Newman, 82, graduated from the central Ohio college in 1949 with a degree in drama and economics.

“My days there were among the happiest and most formative of my life,” Newman said in a statement from Kenyon on Friday. “I believe strongly that we should be doing whatever we can to make all higher education opportunities available to deserving students. I hope others will support Kenyon in this manner.”

The donation will fund partial and full scholarships for 15 to 20 students a year, college spokesman Shawn Presley said. The first Newman’s Own scholars will be announced this summer.

Newman and his wife, Joanne Woodward, have donated privately to Kenyon in the past. The couple went public at the college’s request because Kenyon hopes the contribution will spur donations from other alumni, Forrester said.

Newman has given more than $175 million to charities from the profits earned by his Newman’s Own brand of dressings, pasta sauces, popcorn and salsa.

Newman, star of films including “Cool Hand Luke,” “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “The Color of Money,” said last week that he’s retiring from acting after more than 50 years.