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Why is Mayor Boris talking to Brocket?
Since being released from prison in 1998 after serving half a five-year sentence for fraud – he cut up a number of his Ferrari sports cars and buried them in the ground of his stately home and then claimed the insurance - Lord Brocket (pictured) has kept... [continued]
Fry hits out at ‘naive’ BBC over iPlayer
Comedian and self-confessed techie Stephen Fry has attacked the BBC for giving away programmes on iPlayer - and to prove his point he has revealed how he regularly breaches the service's copy protection system himself by downloading material from home computer onto his Apple iPhone. Fry... [continued]
Ire in British film industry as ‘Juno’ lands role of Jane Eyre
Canadian actress Ellen Page, best known for her role in the teen pregnancy comedy Juno, is to appear in a BBC film adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. The
announcement has, according to some press reports, been greeted with scorn within the British film industry. The casting... [continued]
Juno 'not Canadian enough' for awards 
Juno director is Hollywood's unlikely new darling
Kennedy walks out of Royal Albert Hall show
Nigel Kennedy, the publicity-hungry and football-obsessed violinist, has walked out of a planned performance at the Classical Brit awards following a row with the event's organisers. Kennedy, 51, had planned to perform a piece by Mozart or Beethoven at the event, which takes place this evening at... [continued]
Silvio gives Mara La Bella equality job
Silvio Berlusconi has made a brave appointment to his new cabinet. Yesterday he revealed that the beauteous Mara Carfagna, nicknamed Mara La Bella, will be his minister for equal opportunities. It is a brave move because the Italian Prime Minister has past form with 32-year-old Mara - he... [continued]
In brief: Gabriel Garcia Marquez ends his writer’s block
Gabriel Garcia Marquez [pictured], the 81-year-old Colombian-born novelist who won the Nobel Prize in 1982 for One Hundred Years of Solitude, is close to finishing an as yet untitled 250-page novel, two years after he told a Spanish newspaper that he had finished with writing because his... [continued]
Becker squeezed out of hall of fame by Nazis
An attempt to create a German sporting Hall of Fame has caused raised eyebrows – and no doubt a few raised arms in certain reactionary quarters - because the organisers have excluded well-known figures like Wimbledon champion Boris Becker [pictured] and Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher in... [continued]
Is Talansky set to air Olmert’s dirty laundry?
On the day Israelis should be celebrating their country's 60th birthday, the gossip in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem - not for the first time - is about whether their troubled prime minister, Ehud
Olmert [pictured], is about to be nailed for corruption. Investigators have been looking into whether he accepted... [continued]
In pictures: Israel - birth pangs of a nation
