In brief: Philip Green’s new Ronnie Biggs’s look

Wisely side-stepping the retail carnage on the High Street, Topshop and BHS owner Sir Philip Green (left) jetted off to Barbados at the weekend. His choice of beachwear, a pastiche of a shirt once worn by The Sex Pistols but in fact featuring his friends Simon Cowell, Michael Winner and Sylvester Stallone (and himself) as the punk rockers, caused comment. Not least because of Green's resemblance to Ronnie Biggs (right), the Great Train robber who famously recorded the song No One Is Innocent with the Pistols in 1978………… Film director Robert Mulligan, best known for the classic 1962 adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, has died aged 83. Mulligan was also credited with discovering Reese Witherspoon. He auditioned her as an extra for his 1991 movie The Man in the Moon, but was so impressed by the then 14-year-old actress that he offered her the lead role………… Arnold Schwarzenegger, the muscle-bound Austrian actor turned Governor of California, has admitted on Sixty Minutes that he would like to run for the presidency. It would require a change of the constitution which states all presidents should be born in the US.………… Pete Doherty has cancelled three shows in London in December following an arm injury, according to the New Musical Express.....…… Adrian Mitchell, the poet, playwright and children's author, has died of pneumonia at the age of 76. Mitchell was renowned for his political poems about nuclear war, Vietnam, prisons and racism, and was dubbed the "shadow poet laureate" by socialist magazine Red Pepper ………,…