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Designer to the stars returns with her creative guru (aged eight)

For more than a decade she was the height of fashion, designing clothes for Kate Winslet, Cherie Blair and Princess Diana

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Recession creates the £12.50 Michelin-starred lunch

Fear of empty tables has prompted London’s Michelin-starred restaurants to tempt diners with cut-price deals

Holy alliance over plans to turn church into health spa

Beauty magnate at war with a congregation over his plans to turn their church into a spa has found an unlikely ally

London firefighters called out 14,000 times to rescue people from lifts

London firefighters were called out 14,000 times in the last year to rescue people trapped in lifts - at a cost of £4.1 million

Spy master le Carré ends 38-year deal to join Penguin

One of the country's most famous authors has left his publisher and defected to Penguin in a move that has shocked the book world

Teachers oppose plan to expand grammar schools

Teaching groups hit out at plans to expand grammar schools in Kent claiming they create a 'selective system which labels 10-year-olds failures'

I was on the brink of being bankrupt after US lifestyle firm failed, says Duchess

Duchess of York reveals how she lost £600,000 after taking the advice of an unnamed money 'mastermind'

French expats to elect first 'MP for Britain'

French residents of South Kensington are preparing to help pick Britain's first elected representative to a French parliament.

Postal strike threat to swine flu vaccines for most vulnerable

Planned swine flu immunisation programme could be jeopardised by the postal strike, the Chief Medical Officer warns

Health bosses draw up emergency measures ahead of postal strike

Emergency measures are being drawn up to protect patients ahead of the national postal strike as Hospitals and GPs look to minimise the disruption

Sisters: We'll set up our own primary

Two sisters plan to open a community school in west London after struggling to find suitable primary places for their daughters

Hospital writes to baby who died 20 years ago

Parents of a baby who died 20 years ago told how a hospital questionnaire asking about her condition brought their grief flooding back

Archbishop tells families to grow their own

THE Archbishop of Canterbury today called on families to grow their own vegetables instead of going to the supermarket.

Police track down man in Stephen Gately's flat at time of his death

Police in Majorca have tracked down the Bulgarian man in Stephen Gately’s flat at the time the singer died

Beauty spa boss outrages church's congregation with Sunday fashion show

Shocked congregation criticises beauty magnate who staged a 'saucy' catwalk show in their former church on a Sunday

Foster parents arrested over abuse charges

A couple who went on the run with their foster daughters after being told they could not adopt them have been arrested for allegedly physically abusing them.

48,000 child carers lack criminal checks

A legal loophole means more than 48,000 people who work with children have not had proper criminal records checks.

Keith Floyd's 'secret child' gatecrashes chef's funeral

Woman who gatecrashed Keith Floyd’s funeral shocked his relatives by announcing that she was his secret child

Strangler picked on us because we're strong women, say victims

Two women attacked by a serial strangler have spoken of their ordeals after he was sentenced to 18 years' in prison

Animal-human embryo studies 'being forced out of Britain'

Research into the creation of animal-human hybrid embryos is being driven out of Britain, it has been revealed

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