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Cardinal launches Brown broadside
Several leading Catholic churchmen used their Easter sermons to have a go at the Government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, but it was the Scotland's most senior Catholic, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who went for the jugular. He denounced the proposed legislation - which would allow scientists to create hybrid embryos,... [continued]
Roman to bring rabbis to the Bridge?
Is Roman Abramovich about to switch from spending his millions on importing expensive footballers Chelsea, to recruiting a team of world-class rabbis? The claim is made by the Jewish Chronicle which reports that the Russian billionaire is on the verge of making a huge investment - possibly in excess of... [continued]
David Hockney donates his largest work ever to the Tate Gallery
David Hockney is giving the largest painting he's ever created to the nation. Entitled Bigger Trees Near Warter, the 40ft by 15ft work - made up of 50 separate canvases - will hang at the Tate Britain in London. Hockney, who recently returned to live in Yorkshire after decades spent... [continued]
Britain awaits Sarko’s bevy of beauties
Does Windsor Castle have room for all the women French President Nicholas Sarkozy plans to bring with him to meet the Queen this week? Pride of place in his
throng goes, of course, to his new wife, Carla Bruni, who's taken curtseying lessons and told Paris Match: "I am prepared... [continued]
People: Rachida, the 'Barbie minister' 
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Gossip Girl creator reveals secrets
Somewhere in New York there's a woman in her late 30s who, it seems, is the model for the outrageously privileged young Manhattan teens who people Gossip Girl, a shameless tale of
drugs, drink, sex and designer clothes that comes to Britain this week after its controversial debut season in... [continued]
Teen TV goes all the way
In brief: Corinne Bailey Rae’s husband dies
Saxophonist Jason Rae, husband of soul singer Corinne Bailey Rae, has been found dead from a suspected drugs overdose... Leonid Rozhetskin, the Russian oligarch at the centre of a manhunt after vanishing from his Latvian home, had recently become a film producer: rumour-mongers in Moscow suggest his disappearance might be... [continued]
Digby the goat loses yet more friends
How many friends in high places does Britain's outspoken trade minister Lord 'Digby' Jones have left? First, Labour party insiders objected to his appointment to the government by Gordon Brown because he refused to join the party and drop his opposition to the minimum wage. Then his colleagues were furious... [continued]
