Candy brothers upset Mittal’s son

The son of the multi-billionaire Lakshmi Mittal is squaring up to the London property developers Nick and Christian Candy. According to the Evening Standard, Mittal's eldest boy Aditya (pictured) lives next door to the Chelsea barracks, where the Candy brothers are planning to build more than 600 houses, a hotel and a sports complex.

Thus far the only work that has taken place has been the demolition of the existing buildings, but this has proved so noisy and disruptive that Aditya, who works for his father, has installed his own personal seismographic device to check for ground movements and vibrations. While he has yet to publicly oppose the scheme - unlike the Duke of Westminster and actor Rupert Everett - a source told the Standard that he and his family are "big objectors".

Mittal is understood to have bought the house in Bloomfield Terrace three years ago, but is unlikely to go on record about his antagonism to the billion pound project. However, a member of his household staff, who are all billeted in a number of adjoining mews houses, confirmed that he was "unhappy" with the building works and had made his dissatisfaction known privately to the Candys. Of course, Aditya could always move to one of his other London homes: he recently brought two houses in Kensington Palace Gardens, said to be Britain's richest street.