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Heather Mills was ‘explosive’, says judge
Heather Mills's evidence was "inconsistent, inaccurate" and "less than candid", the High Court judge who presided over the Mills-McCartney divorce said in a devastating judgment
which the former model tried unsuccessfully to suppress. Mr Justice Bennett's entire 58-page ruling was published online today after Mills was... [continued]
Mills pours scorn on Sir Paul's lawyer 
The mayor, the driver and the mayor’s wife
Hot on the heels of the resignation of New York governor Eliot Spitzer after revelations that he had spent thousands of dollars on a call-girl, another sex scandal is rocking the New
York political scene. A former New Jersey governor, Jim McGreevey (left), had regular threesomes with his... [continued]
People: Spitzer resigns after call-girl scandal
Anthony Minghella dies at 54
The Oscar-winning British film director and playwright Anthony Minghella died this morning at the age of 54, his agent Judy Daish has confirmed. He suffered a
haemorrhage following surgery on his neck in London's Charing Cross Hospital. Minghella is best known for directing The English Patient (above), the 1996 film... [continued]
Clip from The English Patient, courtesy of Buena Vista Home Entertainment, available on DVD
Knives out for Ramsay in France
Gordon 'Fucking' Ramsay, about to launch a new restaurant in Versailles, just outside Paris, has been slapped down by France's most important restaurant critic, Francois Simon of Le Figaro, before the restaurant has even opened. Simon said: "I like Gordon Ramsay's cooking very much. It's very fine, agreeable with lots... [continued]
Tim Bell takes on Belarus
Has the veteran spin doctor Tim Bell - the former Saatchi & Saatchi adman who was instrumental in getting Margaret Thatcher into Downing Street in 1979 - landed his toughest PR assignment yet? Lord Bell has been hired by Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus's autocratic president, to makeover the... [continued]
In brief: Mussolini’s motor sells at auction for £550k
A 1935 Pescara Spyder once owned by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (pictured) has been sold for £550,000, a record price for the classic sportscar... Joe
Lewis, the Bahamas-based billionaire who took a $1bn hit as a result of the Bear Stearns collapse, as reported here yesterday, has reassured... [continued]
Kaplinsky and co plummet in approval ratings
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Brendel’s US farewell tour reaches finale
Has the great classical pianist Alfred Brendel bitten off more than he can chew with his year-long farewell tour before he retires at Christmas? Last night, the 77-year-old
concluded the American leg of the tour with a sellout recital at the Strathmore arts centre outside Washington DC.... [continued]
Brendel’s concert schedule
New novelists pip big names to Orange prize
Established authors such as Pat Barker, Joyce Carol Oates and Jeanette Winterson have given way to seven first-time novelists in the long list for the Orange Broadband Prize for women fiction writers as the chair of the judging panel complained that the list was becoming overrun by... [continued]
Cameron dines out with young Tories
With new opinion polls pointing towards a Conservative majority after the next election, the jostling for David Cameron’s affections has begun. Thirty young Tory MPs have been invited to join a dining club called the Green Chip group – and with Cameron set to join them... [continued]
