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Cable a star at old friend’s expense
The Lib Dems have a new star - and it's not one of the two men fighting for the leadership of the party. Instead it's Vince Cable, stand-in leader and the party's shadow chancellor, whose crack in the Commons yesterday about Gordon Brown had the backbenches guffawing and the PM... [continued]
Rushdie hits the clubs as Padma finds love
Salman Rushdie has not let his separation and impending divorce from his fourth wife Padma Lakshmi slow him down. Indeed, his whirlwind social life - once the
subject of mirth in the British media - is now the butt of jokes in New York where he mainly lives. The New... [continued]
Has Padma found a sugar daddy? 
Barcelona blows out Woody Allen and Scarlett Johansson
Plans for Woody Allen to use Barcelona as the setting for three new films, as reported on The First Post in July, have been shelved after uproar in the Catalan capital at
the cost of the first film in his projected trilogy. Allen, 71, began shooting Vicky Cristina Barcelona in... [continued]
Barcelona pays out for Woody
In Brief: Christina poses nude for mag
Singer Christina Aguilera has posed naked for Marie Claire magazine while seven months pregnant... Six artists have been shortlisted to fill the vacant fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, including Tracey Emin and Turner Prize winners Antony Gormley, Jeremy Deller and Anish Kapoor... Ray Winstone received the Richard Harris award... [continued]
Conrad Black bullish on impending sentence
In a interview with London journalists conducted by video-link from his virtual home imprisonment in Florida, disgraced media baron Conrad Black was on fine form Wednesday night for
a man about to go to jail. He said that he was rereading Kafka's The Trial. "When I first read it I... [continued]
Conrad Black convicted of fraud
Conrad and the LongPen machine
‘Good friends’ Naomi and Lewis lead press on merry dance
If Naomi Campbell and Lewis Hamilton are, in the words of her spokesman, "just good friends", then why did they feel the need on Tuesday night to lead the paparazzi
crowd on such a merry dance across London? The pair met up at a Prince's Trust bash in Camden, north... [continued]
In pictures: how the rookie crumbled
Agyness Deyn takes top model prize
Agyness Deyn, wearing a black feathered gown by Giles Deacon, won Model of Year at the British Fashion Awards in London. Agyness (pronounced Agnes) has made a real
impact on the international fashion scene this year with her trademark crop - sometimes brunette, sometimes red, but on this occasion back... [continued]
More Agyness Deyn pictures
Video: The 2007 British Fashion Awards
