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Ronnie Wood goes to rehab
Ronnie Wood, the Rolling Stone who ran off with a 20-year-old Russian cocktail waitress last week, whisking her off to his home in Ireland and fuelling the adventure with two bottles of vodka a day, has checked himself into rehab. He was apparently persuaded to leave his... [continued]
Jesse Jackson did use the ‘n-word’
The veteran black civil rights activist Jesse Jackson caused a furore last week when he was caught off-air by a Fox News microphone whispering to a co-guest about Barack
Obama: "See, Barack's been talking down to black people," before adding: "I want to cut his nuts off".... [continued]
Jesse Jackson gaffe: is there more to come? 
Jane Clark battles English Heritage over Saltwood Castle
Jane Clark (pictured), widow of the late Tory MP and celebrated diarist Alan Clark, has locked horns with English Heritage who claim that her home, Saltwood Castle in Kent, is in poor order and in need of urgent (and costly) renovation to prevent it from falling down. All his... [continued]
Chinabounder reveals himself
‘Chinabounder’, the anonymous western Lothario who provoked outrage among the Chinese with dispatches about his sexual conquests of Chinese women in a blog called ‘Sex and Shanghai’, has finally
broken cover. He is David Marriott, who claims to be a graduate of Cambridge University. He has... [continued]
The blogger who took on China
Medvedev challenged by Khodorkovsky
The jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who only five years ago was ranked the richest man in Russia and the 16th wealthiest in the world, but who now languishes in a jail in the eastern Russian city of Chita on what his friends say are trumped up tax evasion charges,... [continued]
In Town Last Night: Inge and Stilley pop-up in Covent Garden
The trendy face of ethical fashion is Visa Swap - a make-shift 'pop-up store' in a Covent Garden loft where you can take your unwanted clothing and exchange them for someone else's. Last night saw
the launch of their July 2008 season, where perpetual party girls... [continued]
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Hendrix’s flaming guitar goes on sale
Jimi Hendrix's 1965 Fender Stratocaster, which he famously set ablaze with lighter fuel during a performance (pictured) at London's Finsbury Astoria in the Sixties, is to be auctioned. The guitar, which is expected to fetch as much as £500,000, was thought to be lost. But it has... [continued]
In brief: Greg Norman hit for mobile use
Veteran golfer Greg Norman, who is competing in the Open Championship starting today at the Royal Birkdale, Merseyside, has received a police caution after being caught talking to his wife, former Wimbledon women’s tennis champion Chris Evert, while driving… Natalie Cole, daughter of music legend Nat King... [continued]
Stuart Rose defends cleavage-revealing tops
Sir Stuart Rose, the silver-haired executive chairman of Marks & Spencer, was attacked at a shareholders’ meeting last week for losing track of his customers’ needs, particularly
on the clothing front, where he was accused of encouraging designers to give all the dresses and tops plunging,... [continued]
Why Philip Green is thorn in Rose’s side
