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Abramovich’s wealth revealed by judge
The news that Roman Abramovich (pictured) has sacked 15 members of his staff at Chelsea FC - and that manager Luiz Felipe Scolari has been told he must sell
players if he wants to buy any new ones in the January transfer window – may come as a surprise... [continued]
Will Abramovich yacht eclipse Melnichenko’s? 
Sports pages: Roman tightens his belt
Jonathan Ross spends £40,000 on a bath
From the department of bad timing: The latest edition of the glossy giveaway magazine Hampstead Life reveals that Jonathan Ross (pictured), a local, has splashed
out £100,000 on redesigning his bathroom, with its star feature being a £40,000 made-to-measure egg-shaped bath, hewn from single rock of marble. As the mag's... [continued]
What BBC ban means to Jonathan Ross
Lewis Hamilton should live in Britain, says Stirling Moss
While Lewis Hamilton (pictured with his father, Anthony, and girlfriend, Pussycat Doll singer Nicole Scherzinger) revels in becoming the youngest driver ever to win
the Formula One World championship, veteran driver Stirling Moss believes that he should now quit living as a tax exile in Monaco and return to England.... [continued]
Sport: Hamilton wins Formula 1 title
In pictures: Hamilton wins Formula 1 championship
Donald Trump triumphs in Scotland
The huge public relations campaign mounted by US real estate tycoon Donald Trump to push through his controversial plans to create a £1bn golf resort in Aberdeenshire has finally
paid off. The Scottish Government today gave the project the green light. Although supported by business, the... [continued]
Flying Scotsman Trump drops in for tea
Donald Trump reveals comb-over secrets
Palin falls for fake Sarkozy
Sarah Palin (pictured), the Republican party's vice-presidential candidate, was duped at the weekend by two comics from the Montreal radio station CKOI into thinking she was
getting a phone call from the French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Marc-Antoine Audette and Sebastien Trudel, a comic duo who call themselves the
Masked... [continued]
The prank Palin/Sarkozy interview
Larry Flynt’s ‘Palin’ porno film released
Tina Fey cashes in on Sarah Palin
In brief: most Americans want a black president, at least on TV
On the eve of the US election, a survey has revealed that the most popular fictional American president is David Palmer, aka actor Dennis Haysbert who played the black president in
the television series 24, beating such white ‘presidents’ as Harrison Ford, John Travolta and Martin Sheen…………. British band the... [continued]
Outsider Aravind Adiga wins Booker
Bono’s skyscraper dreams on hold
The multi-millionaire rock star Bono's (pictured) plans to build Ireland's first skyscraper, the so-called U2 Tower, have been put on hold because of the slump in Dublin property prices. The singer had hoped the building, in which he had already bagged the penthouse, would be completed by 2011. However, as... [continued]
TV fame beckons for Pauline Prescott
Pauline Prescott (pictured), the wife of the oafish former deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, is being courted by television companies following her
appearance last week in a BBC2 documentary about her husband and the British class system. Reviews for the programme, Prescott: The Class System and... [continued]
Prescott snubbed by Regatta toffs
Prescott makes class war on Cherie
Challenge made to Stanford’s knighthood
As England's cricket team trudge home from the Twenty20 in Antigua – they were thrashed by ten wickets and so missed out on the $20m prize money – questions are being asked about the knighthood
conferred on the Texan-born billionaire behind the tournament, Sir Allen Stanford (pictured).... [continued]
Sir Allen Stanford apologises for getting too close to WAGS
Bank crisis favours Amanda Staveley
Amanda Staveley (pictured), the former girlfriend of Prince Andrew, is doing very well out of the financial crises. The Sunday Times reported yesterday that a
company she controls brokered a large chunk of last week's capital injection into Barclays Bank by Middle Eastern investors, a transaction that will make... [continued]
Prince Andrew’s ex Staveley lands City
Alastair Campbell’s novel ‘robotic’
Alastair Campbell's (pictured) foray into fiction – he has written a novel called All in the Mind - received a drubbing in yesterday's Sunday Times. The
reviewer, Peter Kemp, made his feelings about Tony Blair's erstwhile spin-doctor and his book clear in the opening line: "Anyone for whom the... [continued]
Alastair Campbell book review
