Heather Mills and estranged husband Sir Paul McCartney near deal

Heather Mills is set to accept a £29 million cash and property divorce
settlement from estranged husband Sir Paul McCartney.

The former model has reportedly backtracked on her previous demands of
£10,000 a day "just to get by".

She is also said to have given up on her bid for sole custody of the couple's three-year-old daughter Beatrice.

A source told Britain's News of the World newspaper: "It's amazing how
quickly things have turned around. Heather has caved in on lots of things -
including her money demands and the issue of sole custody. We now expect her
to settle.
"Heather's stance has completely changed. Paul's legal team were worried she
might have upped the stakes by threatening to leave England and take
Beatrice with her. It could still take weeks to thrash out a deal but they'
re on the right path."
The settlement is likely to include £25 million in cash and Paul's £4
million St John's Wood mansion in London.
It is believed Paul, 64, has agreed to contribute £2 million towards Heather
's security costs during the divorce proceedings.
Despite apparently a settlement, Heather, 39, is allegedly planning to speak
out about her four-year marriage to The Beatles legend.
The source added: "Heather told me, 'I will not sign a gagging clause
because I want people to know the truth.' "
Leaked court documents from last year revealed Heather had claimed Paul was
physically violent to her during their marriage.
Her allegations included claims the musician had pushed her into a bath
while she was pregnant and on another occasion stabbed her in the arm with a
broken wine glass.
Heather will take Beatrice to the US this week while she competes in TV show
'Dancing with the Stars'.

Heather Mills says she is prepared in case her false limb gets damaged or flies off during her dance routines.
She revealed to TV show 'Access Hollywood': "I've got a secondary spare leg just in case I overdo it on the foot and it breaks or something. It can, once it gets hot, start to slide and come off, so I've pulled a sleeve over the top which doesn't look as cosmetically good.
"As much as everyone would love it to go flying, I'm sure it's not going to come off."

Heather, 39, is reportedly already struggling after suffering blisters on her partly-amputated leg as a result of grueling training sessions.
A source said: "The show's rehearsals have left her in a lot of pain.

"The sores are especially bad where her leg joins her prosthetic limb, but she's determined not to give up."

In other news, Heather Mills has been photographed wearing a mink coat.
The ardent animal rights campaigner - who branded former PETA supporter
Naomi Campbell a "hypocrite" for sporting fur - is seen wearing a fur coat
made from up to 40 animals in video footage filmed in 1989.

The former model's sister-in-law Dianna Karmal told Britain's Daily Mirror
newspaper: "She really loved that coat. When I see her anti-fur campaigns
now, I always chuckle.
"It's laughable that she's called so many celebrities hypocrites. She's
styled herself as an anti-fur campaigner but was proud to be in her mother's
mink.
"The picture is from long ago but no-one's aware of her previous love of
fur. The charities she campaigns for will all feel let down."
Heather, who is currently involved in a bitter divorce battle with Sir Paul
McCartney, was an active supporter of PETA but was dropped by the
organization earlier this year.
It was claimed Paul's photographer daughter Mary threatened to stop working
on the 'I would rather go naked than wear fur' campaign unless the animal
rights group severed ties with her stepmother.
Before Heather split from Paul last year, she regularly worked for PETA -
protesting against Canadian seal culling and the fur trade.
She even posed nude for PETA's 2007 calendar, but the photographs were
dropped after her divorce battle began.

Heather Mills defended her decision to wear a fur coat, saying she only did it because it made feel
closer to her mother who had just died.

"The coat belonged to my
mother, who had sadly died just a few days earlier and I wore it as it made
me feel close to her."

"I am not ashamed I wore it. At the time I was not a vegetarian
and I was not an anti-fur campaigner. I was extremely young and not aware of
the issues surrounding the fur trade."