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Former judge calls for Cherie’s dismissal
Cherie Blair has insisted today that the controversy over her tawdry memoirs, Speaking for Myself, will not spell the end of her legal career after a former senior judge
called for her dismissal from the judiciary. After a week of extracts containing intimate revelations about Mrs... [continued]
Cherie tells of her rift with Alastair 
Cherie reveals Leo's royal conception
Mortimer attacks Hollywood Brideshead
Sir John Mortimer has attacked a much-anticipated Hollywood adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited, claiming that integral themes of the
book - God, homosexuality and Aloysius the teddy bear – have been left out to make the film more palatable to mass American audiences.... [continued]
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Cannes turns political as Sean Penn presides over La Croisette
Barack Obama may be good enough for his former presidential rival John Edwards - who endorsed him at a rally in Michigan on Wednesday - but if he hopes to secure the
vote of the unrelentingly humourless Sean Penn, he will have his work cut out. Penn... [continued]
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In pictures: Cannes 2008
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Bush’s ‘great war sacrifice’ angers vets
George Bush has revealed that he gave up golf, his favourite pastime, to show solidarity with American soldiers serving in Iraq. "I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf," he told American current affairs website Politico. "I feel... [continued]
What Daria did next: model turns gallerist
Daria 'Dasha' Zhukova (pictured), the impossibly glamorous girlfriend of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, having launched her fashion label, Kova & T,
now wants to take the art world by storm. The 26-year-old former model is opening a gallery cum arts centre in the heart of Moscow. She... [continued]
Meet Dasha Zhukova, internet mogul
Roman's girl Daria launches fashion range
Roman plans £150m palace with Daria
In brief: Bacon triptych sells for record $86m
A three-panelled painting by Francis Bacon - Triptych, 1976 (pictured) - was sold at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday for $86m, the highest price ever paid for a
Bacon... Nicholas Soames, the former Tory minister and great-grandson of Winston Churchill, has been banned from driving... [continued]
Big Sue goes for a hefty sum
Critics have field day with Naipaul biography
Peer tries to close Oriel after one bad meal
Earl Cadogan (pictured), one of Britain's richest landowners, has decided to close down a landmark Chelsea restaurant whose freehold he owns because, after an evening at one of its tables, he decided the food was not up to standard. The eaterie in question is Oriel on Sloane... [continued]
Berlusconi passes flirty notes in parliament
Silvio Berlusconi has already attracted the wrath of his wife for announcing he would happily marry one of his cabinet ministers, the beautiful Mara Carfagna (for
which indiscretion he was forced to write her a public apology). Now he faces another grilling. On Wednesday the 71-year-old Italian... [continued]
Silvio appoints Mara La Bella as equality minister
