People
Why Philip Green is thorn in Rose’s side
Sir Stuart Rose, the chief executive of Marks & Spencer faces a gruelling time later today when he faces 2,000 shareholders furious about the sharp drop in profits as well as
Rose's controversial elevation to executive chairman while remaining chief executive of the company. So he was... [continued]
Stuart Rose: from hero to zero 
Mosley call-girls deny Nazi role-play
One of call-girls who participated in a sado-masochistic orgy with motorsport boss Max Mosley (pictured) rallied to his defence yesterday, supporting his claim that the
evening's entertainment reported by the News of the World did not involve any form of Nazi role-play. The woman, who wasn't identified... [continued]
Mosley defends his right to enjoy S&M
In brief: Faithfull missed out on sexy song because of jealous Jagger
Marianne Faithfull (pictured here in 1974) has claimed that she was French crooner Serge Gainsborough’s first choice to sing with him on the legendary 1968 pop song Je T’Aime... Moi Non Plus, but she turned it down because she feared that it would make her then boyfriend,... [continued]
Cholmondeley turns guns on friend
Tom Cholmondeley (pictured), who is being tried for murder in a Nairobi court after allegedly shooting dead a poacher on his family’s 58,000-acre estate in Kenya, pleaded
his innocence yesterday, suggesting that it was "probably" one of his friends, Carl “Flash” Tundo, who fired the fatal shot.... [continued]
Cholmondeley trial begins in Nairobi
Leslie Garrett to star in Carousel
The opera singer Leslie Garrett, more used to the stages of the Royal Opera House and Glyndebourne, has agreed to star in a new London production of the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein classic musical, Carousel. The show, which will open at the Savoy Theatre on December 2,... [continued]
Franz Kafka’s hidden papers revealed
Previously unseen documents and personal belongings of the writer Franz Kafka, which have lain unseen in a Tel Aviv flat for decades, may soon be revealed. The cache, which is expected to shed new light on the life and working methods of the Czech-Jewish writer, have been... [continued]
Is cult of Diana on the wane?
Could the grisly cult that surrounds the late Diana, Princess of Wales, finally be on the wane? Certainly there appears to be a dropping off of interest in the "Queen of Hearts" down at Althorp, her childhood home in Northamptonshire where her brother, Earl Spencer, has created... [continued]
US red-faced after calling Silvio ‘amateur’
The back slapping and bonhomie of the G8 summit in Japan momentarily disappeared yesterday when it emerged that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (pictured) was referred to as an "amateur" in an American press kit. The document in question contained a four-page biography of Berlusconi and... [continued]
Elton John upset by diary spoof
Sir Elton John has taken great exception to a sanctimonious spoof in the Guardian which poked fun at his recent White Tie and Tiara Ball. The item, which appeared in the paper’s regular lampoon ‘A Peek at the Diary of…’, suggested that the overheads for the event,... [continued]
