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Dead police chief Mike Todd’s lover named
The identity of a leading businesswoman who had an affair with the dead police chief Michael Todd has been revealed as Angie Robinson, chief executive of Manchester
Chamber of Commerce and Industry (pictured together). Todd, the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, is reported to have been close... [continued]
Chief constable may have had several affairs 
Ferraro latest casualty in Democrat campaign
How many more aides will the rival Democratic candidates have to shed in the race for the US presidential nomination? The latest high-profile departure - the resignation on Wednesday of
Geraldine Ferraro from the Hillary Clinton campaign - brings the number to three so far. ... [continued]
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Spitzer girl ‘Kristen’ boosts music career on MySpace
'Kristen', the girl at the centre of the prostitution scandal that brought down New York governor Eliot Spitzer, has been identified by the New York Times
as 22-year-old Ashley Alexandra Dupre. It turns out that Ashley - also known as Ashley Youmans and Ashley Rae Maika DiPietro - not only... [continued]
Alexander Cockburn: Was it a Wall Street plot?
Spitzer resigns after call-girl scandal
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Storm expected as Downey Jr ‘blacks up’
Against the backdrop of growing racial tension in the Democratic presidential race - Hillary Clinton's advisor Geraldine Ferraro resigned yesterday after causing a storm with her remark that Barack Obama was only doing well because he was black - actor Robert Downey Jr knows he is... [continued]
David Mamet shuns his ‘brain-dead liberal’ past
The American playwright and screenwriter David Mamet, whose play Speed-the-Plow is currently one of the big hits in London, with Kevin Spacey and
Jeff Goldblum wowing audiences at the Old Vic with Mamet's trademark rapid-fire dialogue - has dropped a bombshell. Writing in the Village Voice, he says that after... [continued]
Spacey and Goldblum hailed as 'greatest double act' in new Mamet play
Apatow star to make new Muppets movie
Disney has announced a new Muppets movie - the first for almost a decade. Details of the new production, announced by Variety on Wednesday, are scant, but the men taking on the mantle of the Muppets creator, the late Jim Henson, are writer Jason Segel and director... [continued]
In brief: Jacksons seek Devon retreat
Michael Jackson's family are planning to buy a house in Barnstaple, Devon to use as a retreat from the American media limelight... Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, on a Caribbean tour to promote environmental protection, stopped in for a drumming session at the former home... [continued]
