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TV ruled by women, protests Paxman
Jeremy Paxman (pictured), the veteran presenter of BBC's flagship current affairs programme Newsnight, has rounded on the corporation's apparent prejudice against
white, middle-class males. The grand inquisitor made his remarks at the Edinburgh Television Festival when he disputed claims that it is an industry dominated by men - and pointed... [continued]
Paxman attacks Robbie Burns 
Iron Lady’s dementia revealed
Carol Thatcher has confirmed the rumour that her mother, Lady Thatcher, is suffering from dementia. Of the former Prime Minister's illness, she wrote in the Mail
on Sunday: "Whereas previously you would never have had to say anything to her twice, because she'd already filed it away in her formidable... [continued]
Lady Thatcher baffled by daughter's celebrity
Marcus Harvey ‘mortified’ by Hindley Olympics scandal
The controversy surrounding the use of a painting of Moors murderer Myra Hindley (pictured) in a promotional video shown at an official party to mark the handover of the
Olympic Games to London will mortify the man who painted it, British artist Marcus Harvey, according to friends. When the... [continued]
Boris ploughs into the Olympian throng
Damien Hirst unleashes the beasts
In brief: Patsy Kensit plans book
Following an appearance on BBC TV's Who Do You Think You Are, in which she explored her family's murky connections to London's underworld, Patsy Kensit (pictured) is to write an autobiography. Literary agent Simon Trewin is expecting publishers to offer a "significant deal" perhaps as much as £1m -... [continued]
Mystery over Ruth Rendell’s Tory tryst
The search is on to find out the identity of the British politician with whom Ruth Rendell (pictured), 78, had a secret affair - a fact she let slip in an interview with the Independent on Sunday to promote her latest Barbara Vine novel (the pseudonym she uses for her... [continued]
Keira Knightley incensed by trailer suggesting link to Diana
Keira Knightley has reacted angrily to the decision to use Diana, Princess of Wales as a means of promoting her latest movie, The Duchess, an adaptation of
Amanda Foreman's best-selling autobiography of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, the 18th-century beauty and socialite. In a trailer for the film,... [continued]
Amanda Foreman in biography row
Earl fights Candys in battle of barracks
The grandson of Harold Macmillan, the early 1960s Tory Prime Minister, has joined the battle to prevent hotshot London property developers Nick and Christian Candy
(pictured) from erecting a high-tech block of flats in Chelsea. The Earl of Stockton, a Tory MEP who also lives near the proposed development, is... [continued]
Duke baulks at Candy brothers' plans
