Kate Moss leads the procession of hard-partying celebrities at all-night Christmas bash

Because most of the guests at Davinia's Taylor's yuletide bash were of the distinctly naughty variety.

A procession of hard-partying celebrities trouped into the home of Kate Moss's best friend on Thursday night, including the model herself.

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Other guests from the notorious Primrose Hill set included Sadie Frost, Sienna Miller and Rhys Ifans, and the hellraising Pogues singer Shane MacGowan.

MacGowan showed his age by leaving the party with his wife before most of the guests arrived around 10pm.

The 49-year-old was helped into his cab looking a little weary and carrying a half-empty Schweppes tonic water bottle, the contents of which were unknown.

In the picture above MacGowan seems to be trying to say something to photographers - perhaps a verse from his band's Christmas classic, Fairytale of New York.

If so, it would probably be uncensored - unlike the version BBC's Radio 1 decided to play earlier this month.

Fashion designer and actress Sadie Frost, 42, arrived at 11.30pm. She might qualify for Santa's nice column, having given up alcohol last year.

Miss Miller, 25, and Welsh actor Ifans, 39, arrived fashionably late at 1.45am, a time when most parties start winding down. Just before their arrival Miss Moss's current boyfriend, The Kills guitarist Jamie Hince, 38, made an emergency dash for further alcohol supplies.

Miss Miller and her boyfriend, dressed for the cold in a black and white cardigan and a jumper, stayed until 4.30am, before heading home to Primrose Hill.

The actress and Miss Moss, 33, appear to have ended their long-running feud.

The row started with a heated public argument at a mutual friend's wedding this summer, which Miss Frost was forced to step in and diffuse.

Miss Miller's boyfriend Rhys Ifans is a well established member of Kate Moss's social group and is thought to have engineered the truce.

On Wednesday night, the model attended a party at her former rival's home, leaving at 1am clutching a present after four hours spent singing carols.

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Thursday night's party seemed an even more rowdy affair, perhaps to the consternation of Miss Taylor's long-suffering neighbours.

Last month, residents in the street in St John's Wood complained that the loud music and raucous singing from all-night parties at her house consistently disturbed their sleep.

The complaints coincided with Miss Moss's decision to move in with Miss Taylor and her husband, Dave Gardner, after putting her own St John's Wood mansion on the market.

Neighbour Diane Mackintosh, 61, said last month that the women's night-owl lifestyle had infuriated the whole street.

She said: "Everybody has been complaining, especially those with children. I can assure you everyone on this street is angry. I have written to the MP and to the police - everyone I can think of. They sleep all day and go out all night."

Miss Moss has not yet sold her house and is thought to be spending at least some of her time back there.