A glitzy charity shop crammed with celebrities' cast-offs including Carey Mulligan's Bafta gown was launched by Zoe Ball, Beverley Knight and Annie Lennox.... more
Marks & Spencer has apparently called in the lawyers in a bid to prise its new chief executive Marc Bolland away from old employer Morrisons, the Bradford-based supermarket... more
The British Music Experience will open at the O2 next year — but why settle for memorabilia when you can see the real thing every night of the week?.... more
Noel Gallagher's guitar and the outfit David Bowie wore in his Ziggy Stardust incarnation will go on show in a new exhibition of the history of British rock and pop... more
A glowing Amy Winehouse bounced back from her recent health problems tonight to sing at Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday concert in Hyde Park last night.... more
Amy Winehouse was spotted shopping for alcohol and sweets today instead of joining her pop contemporaries at a photocall for Friday's Nelson Mandela concert.... more
Nelson Mandela is to make a rare public appearance in London next month when he attends a massive concert in Hyde Park to celebrate his 90th birthday. The former South African president, who turns 90 on July 18, will join a crowd of precisely 46,664 - his old prison number and now the name of his Aids charity - for the show next month
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Nelson Mandela will hold his 90th birthday party at Hyde Park for 46,664 special guests; matching his prison number and the name of his Aids charity.... more
Nelson Mandela will appear at a massive concert in Hyde Park to celebrate his 90th birthday. The former South African president will join a crowd of precisely 46,664 - his old prison number... more
It was the charity banquet with a difference, a £1,000-ahead five-course meal made of ingredients all grown, plucked or fished from in and around London... more
It's the £1,000 dinner with a difference. Guests at a charity banquet in London next month can look forward to soup made from nettles picked from Hyde Park, and wild fennel plucked from the banks of the Regent's Canal in Hackney... more
This year's visit to the Royal Albert Hall by pioneering Canadian circus company Cirque du Soleil is an uplifting experience and has a kick recent visits have lacked.... more
As is always the case when celebrities and good causes come together, there were a few occasions on which the worthy gave way to the downright cringe-worthy.... more
Annie Lennox, Corinne Bailey Rae and James Morrison are to headline a concert calling for global peace which will be held at London's Royal Albert Hall.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows