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Friday April 4, 2008

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Turner apologises to Cage over claims

The Hollywood actress Kathleen Turner has been forced to apologise to her former co-star Nicolas Cage after she claimed that he was arrested twice for drunk-driving while they were making the 1986 film Peggy Sue Got Married. She made the claim, along with alleging that Cage was... [continued]

Executives side-step new tax scheme

London is abuzz with company directors off-loading shares ahead of the next tax year, which begins on April 6. Changes to Capital Gains Tax announced earlier this year by Chancellor Alistair Darling mean that executives will see the tax they pay on selling shares in their own... [continued]

Dench and Kidman to join Bardem and Cruz on Broadway?

Judi Dench and Nicole Kidman are said to be in talks to join Javier Bardem and his girlfriend Penelope Cruz (pictured together with Salma Hayek, right) in the film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Nine. The show, first staged in 1982, was an adaptation of Fellini's 8 1/2... [continued]

Mosley attacks critics for their Nazi links

With the calls for him to resign growing ever louder, Max Mosley went on the offensive on Thursday. The president of the FIA, Formula One's ruling body, is under siege following a News of the World expose which purported to show him taking part in a Nazi-style... [continued]

Campbell cracks under strain of T5 mayhem

If there was one person who should never have been allowed near Heathrow Terminal 5 this week it was the supermodel Naomi Campbell. Nearly 500 flights have been cancelled since the British Airways terminal opened on Monday, at a cost to the airline of £16m, and up to 28,000 bags... [continued]

Livingstone unveils his secret family

Mayor Ken Livingstone, who was thought by Londoners to have become a father for the first time at the age of 57, when he had the first of two children with his partner Emma Beale, admitted on Thursday that he actually has five children by three different... [continued]

In Town: London’s 2008 debutante season begins

To mark the start of London's debutante season, a host of well-bred young ladies in fine frocks made their way to the Imperial War Museum on Thursday night for The Berkeley Dress Show 2008. This annual charity ball - known as the 'curtain raiser' for the run... [continued]

Blair reveals why PMs don’t ‘do God’

Tony Blair, who converted to Catholicism last Christmas, has finally explained why he didn't "do God" - in the famous phrase of his one-time spin doctor Alastair Campbell - while he was Prime Minister. It was because talking about religion always led to "a packet of trouble",... [continued]

Tony Blair
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