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Osborne’s wife reveals family skeletons
Twenty-five years ago, aged 13, Frances Osborne, the wife of the Tory shadow chancellor, was at home reading a Sunday newspaper serialisation about Kenya's notorious Happy Valley set. She was gripped. With her sister, paper in hand, she joined her parents at the dining table. "You have to tell... [continued]
Blair eyes up rock legend’s home
Tony Blair - his eye forever on the main chance – is taking advantage of falling house prices and looking around for a cut-price country house. In the past month, the former Prime Minister has viewed two possible homes in Buckinghamshire – one of which is called, uncannily, Chequers... [continued]
Juliette Binoche speaks about her Sarko ‘shame’
French actress Juliette Binoche (left) once counted Francois Mitterand among her admirers - the late President famously approached her in a restaurant and asked her to be his mistress [For the record, Binoche declined]. So was Binoche also among the number of high-profile French women that the... [continued]
In brief: drugs death may kill Fergie’s show
A fly-on-the-wall TV show by the Duchess of York, who spent five months as a life coach to an obese family living on a Hull council estate, may not be broadcast after one of its
stars was arrested over the suspected drugs death of a friend...... [continued]
Mosley defends his 'eccentric' orgy 
Houellebecq’s mother gets her revenge
Hell hath no fury like a women scorned... especially if that woman is your mother, a fact that the ageing enfant terrible of French letters, Michel Houellebecq (pictured), is now all too aware. In his best-selling novel Les Particules Elementaires [the English version was... [continued]
Roman plans £150m palace
Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich is set to become the owner of the most expensive house ever built in London. The super wealthy proprietor of Chelsea Football Club - The
Sunday Times Rich List puts his personal worth at £11.7bn - is planning an eight-storey... [continued]
Daria: 'mean' Mourinho not sexy
Roman spends $160m
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Has Martin Amis forced Eagleton out?
Terry Eagleton, the Marxist literary critic, is fighting to save his job at Manchester University - he has been asked to stand down as Professor of English Literature because he has
reached the official age of retirement, 65. However, Eagleton has let it be known he plans to take... [continued]
'Chuckleheaded' Amis attacked in New York Times
Amis, Islam and the writer's duty
