One-hour op as cancer spreads to Jade's brain

Surgeons have brought Jade Goody's excruciating stomach pains under control, but her terminal cancer has now spread to her brain.

Surgery: Jade leaving the Royal Marsden

She was in theatre for an hour yesterday to improve her quality of life as she prepares to die.

Today, as the 27-year-old Big Brother star was being cared for in a hospice near her Essex home, her husband of nine days, Jack Tweed, 21, was in court for a second day, facing an assault charge.

Jade left the Royal Marsden Hospital in Chelsea in a wheelchair yesterday, drawing heavily on a gas and air cylinder to numb the pain. She was taken to the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital where surgeons operated for a second time to remove a blockage in her bowel that had her weeping in agony. Her spokesman, Max Clifford, said: "It should enable her to be mobile again.

"Then Jade can do the thing she desperately wants to do, to spend time with her boys."

American chat show giants Oprah Winfrey and Larry King are reportedly hoping to interview Jade before she dies.

She hopes to make it home this weekend for a fancy-dress christening for her sons Bobby, five, and Freddie, four, and wants to go as a boiled egg.