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Sugar fails to make Jewish power list
Sir Alan Sugar will be spitting tacks. For despite his appearances on the BBC show The Apprentice, and although he now has a personal fortune estimated at £800m, the growly
businessman has failed to make the influential Jewish Power 100, the annual list of movers and shakers published by the... [continued]
Big in Worthing: Apprentice reject's art aspirations 
Burma’s man in London disappears
Despite the fact the death toll in Burma is now in the region of 100,000, a figure that will no doubt rise in the coming days, the Burmese ambassador in London has been conspicuous by his silence.
One might imagine that Mr Nay Win,... [continued]
The Burma File: all the latest on Cyclone Nargis' aftermath
In pictures: Burma cyclone devastation
Natalie Portman pulls out of Wuthering Heights
American actress Natalie Portman (pictured right), last seen in The Other Boleyn Girl, has walked out of a big-screen adaptation of Emily Bronte's
Wuthering Heights, confirming the thoughts of many - not least the film's director John Maybury - that she was unsuitable for this most English... [continued]
Ire in UK film industry as 'Juno' lands role of Jane Eyre
Will Mike and Boris find common ground?
Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York, flies into London today for a pow-wow with Boris Johnson. Although the idea is that he will give his London
counterpart advice about running the capital - Bloomberg, founder of the financial news agency of the same name, has... [continued]
In pictures – a riot of mayors
Brown ambushed by family questions
While Tory leader David Cameron appears happy to let the public examine his private life - he recently invited a TV crew to film his young family at the breakfast table -
Gordon Brown has let it be known that he will not accept any such intrusions.... [continued]
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Stenham makes West End debut
The Duke of York's Theatre in St Martin's Lane will witness a remarkable debut tonight when 21-year-old Polly Stenham becomes the youngest playwright in 42 years to have a first play open in the West End. That Face, written when she was only 19, was described as "one of the... [continued]
Earl of Onslow slates ‘people’s peers’
The Earl of Onslow (pictured), one of the 90-odd hereditary peers who still sit in the House of Lords, has launched a withering attack on the Government's avowed plan to flood the second chamber with so-called "people's peers". His concerns are not, as some might expect, about the idea of... [continued]
In brief: Ant & Dec to return Tate’s award
TV presenting duo Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly say they will hand back their 2005 'people's choice' British Comedy Award after an ITV investigation found
that comedian Catherine Tate (pictured) should have won a premium rate phone vote for the prize; it is understood the vote was... [continued]
Is Talansky set to air Olmert's dirty laundry?
