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Liverpool artist says Boris is forgiven
Boris Johnson has been forgiven by the people of Liverpool - or at least by one of them. The Conservative Mayor of London has been something of a hate figure on Merseyside since 2004
when an editorial appeared in the Spectator magazine, which he was then editing, describing Liverpudlians as... [continued]
Lee Jones paints Cheryl Cole as the Angel of the North 
Gordon Brown’s buddy accused of ‘sex romp’
Just under three years since it was revealed that John Prescott, then deputy prime minister, had been cheating on his wife Pauline Prescott and enjoyed a
long-running affair with his secretary Tracey Temple, Westminster has another sex scandal on its hands - if a report in the News of the... [continued]
The Mole: MPs to recommend new privacy laws after Mosley evidence
People: TV show boosts John Prescott's popularity
Amanda Knox was ‘beaten by police’, says stepfather
The stepfather of Amanda Knox (pictured), the American girl accused of murdering her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, claims she was repeatedly
beaten by Italian police during all-night interrogations. Chris Mellas, 36, told the Independent on Sunday that it was only because of this intimidation that she confessed... [continued]
How Amanda Knox has captivated the global media
Big Brother exec defends Jade Goody
The TV executive who first put Jade Goody on television, Big Brother producer Phil Edgar-Jones, says the reality TV star who finally lost her battle with
cancer in the small hours of Sunday morning, enthralled and appalled the British public in equal measures. Many viewers found her dreadful and... [continued]
People: Jade Goody dies from cancer, aged 27
Video: Phil Edgar-Jones on Jade Goody
In pictures: Jade Goody’s life
Will Self: count me out of the tawdry Jade Goody freak show
Brendan O'Neill: How Jade Goody has the wrong sort of cancer
American Psycho: How Jade Goody became the new Princess Diana
Sylvia Plath’s son commits suicide
Nicholas Hughes, the son of writer Sylvia Plath (pictured) and the poet Ted Hughes, has committed suicide in Alaska after a battle with
depression. His death marks the latest tragic chapter in the literary dynasty's history, coming 46 years after his mother killed herself when... [continued]
Ted Hughes reveals feelings about the Birthday Letters
Questions over missing helicopter as Natasha Richardson is buried
The family and friends of Natasha Richardson attended her funeral in Millbrook, upstate New York, on Sunday, six days after the 45-year-old actress suffered a fatal brain injury in a
skiing accident at Mont Tremblant in Canada. Her husband Liam Neeson and her stepfather Franco Nero were among the pallbearers... [continued]
In pictures: Natasha and the Redgrave dynasty
People: Family attend Broadway tributes
People: 'Love Actually' haunts Liam Neeson
Journalist quits over Campbell wheeze
The invitation to Alastair Campbell (pictured), Tony Blair's chief spin-doctor, to guest edit the New Statesman last week was intended to bring
attention to the always struggling magazine's editorial relaunch. Unless the wheeze turns out to have added a lot of new readers, it appears to have backfired. Not... [continued]
People: Alastair Campbell edits the New Statesman
Jake Myerson changes his name
The Myerson family saga refuses to die down. A month after novelist Julie Myerson revealed that her latest book, The Lost Child, was based on her family's experiences when
her son Jake Myerson (pictured) became addicted to skunk cannabis - she and the boy's father resorted to kicking the 17-year-old... [continued]
People: Julie Myerson lied to her publisher
People: Julie Myerson book row escalates
Moyles warned for calling Will Young gay
Loudmouthed Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles has fallen foul of Ofcom once again. The breakfast show presenter has been slapped on the wrist for what Ofcom described as derogatory comments
that promoted negative stereotypes of homosexuality. The DJ's comments came as he sung spoof versions of two Will Young... [continued]
Chris Moyles apologises for linking Polish women with prostitution
