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Max Mosley scuppers Sir Fred’s F1 chances
From the unbelievable-but-true department: In January, before the news broke of his £16m pension pot, Sir Fred Goodwin, former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, was being considered as a potential new head of Formula 1 motor racing, to take over from the equally controversial Max Mosley.... [continued]
Royals blush at risque Winkleman film
When Freddie Windsor told his parents, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, that he wanted to marry Sophie Winkleman (pictured), an actress, they must have been delighted. However, now there are concerns that her role in a film called Love Live Long might become the cause of acute embarrassment in... [continued]
Is Murdoch gunning for Michael Wolff?
Is Rupert Murdoch using the New York Post, which he owns, to have a go at his biographer Michael Wolff? On Monday, the paper reviewed a story that had
appeared on the gossip website, Cityfile.com, which suggested Wolff had had an affair with a 28-year-old journalist called Victoria Floethe.... [continued]
People: Rupert Murdoch’s bad hair day 
Orlando Figes claims Kremlin ban
Orlando Figes, the award-winning historian, believes the Kremlin has banned his book, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia, because it shows the Soviet wartime leader in a bad light. Although he cannot offer hard proof, the circumstantial evidence is certainly compelling. On Tuesday Figes's Russian publishers,... [continued]
Frank Gehry’s ‘legacy’ buildings in doubt
The recession has not being kind to Frank Gehry, the US-based architect best known for the Guggenheim art gallery in Bilbao, northern Spain. He has revealed that two of his most
ambitious projects – buildings planned for Los Angeles and New York which many felt would secure his legacy as... [continued]
People: Frank Gehry’s Brighton building axed
