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Aviva’s Moss sees profits on way as he faces City

04.11.09
Aviva chief executive Andrew Moss today forecast a return to profit at the insurer as he faced the City for the first time since details of an affair with a colleague emerged ... more

He's no Wally with £860K gold profit

02.10.09
It turns out that in the £9 million fundraiser announced by AIM-listed Vatukoula Gold Mines last week, its former owner, Canadian mining and leisure tycoon Wally Berukoff, made an overnight profit of £860,000 by exercising an option to buy back 200 million shares. When Canadian Zinc Corporation agreed to buy his 18% stake in Vatukoula earlier this year, Berukoff inserted the option to buy 200 million back at 1p each. ... more

All you need is ... a second Lennon blue plaque

04.09.09
John Lennon is set to be honoured with a blue plaque outside the London house that was the setting for a notorious nude photo shoot with Yoko Ono for an album cover... more

Beatles fans will walk in Fab Four’s footsteps

21.07.09
Hundreds of Beatles fans are to walk over the Abbey Road zebra crossing to mark the 40th anniversary of the famous album cover picture... more

Computer games pressing all the right buttons to defy crisis

10.07.09
While consumers may be struggling with the harsh realities of the current financial crisis, it seems one area has actually benefited from the wallet-tightening being seen across the world ... more

Beatles put their first song online

02.06.09
Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have announced they are putting their first song online... more

Lording it over the landlords can't help them run the pubs

19.05.09
If Ted Tuppen and Giles Thorley ran a pub, would anyone come? Even if people did, could either man make a profit? The chief executives of Enterprise Inns and Punch Taverns - Britain's two biggest pub companies - are fairly scathing about the abilities of landlords who fail, so these seem to me like fair questions.... more

Hollering and stomping in Folk America

22.01.09
In what has been Ich Bin Ein American week across the world, The Barbican’s two-night Folk America could hardly have been better timed.... more

Snake oil won’t insure we still put our trust in Aviva

13.01.09
Meet Bill Smith. Bill has been selling insurance for longer than anyone can remember to at least half the inhabitants of AnyTown... more

We’ve heard the Purnell spiel on welfare before

12.12.08
A great fanfare for Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell’s declaration that the unemployed will be required to undertake some work. Er, haven’t we heard all this before?... more

Mariah wins the big one

10.11.08
Mariah Carey's husband Nick Cannon certainly looks pleased with his missus after she picked up the Lifetime Achievement honour.... more

Ellen DeGeneres marries lesbian partner Portia de Rossi in sunset LA ceremony

16.08.08
Chat show host Ellen DeGeneres and actress Portia de Rossi were married following an intimate ceremony in the grounds of their LA home.... more

A new Starr is born: Ringo's granddaughter takes to the stage with her rock band

12.08.08
She crashed out the guitar chords like a born rocker. And with Ringo Starr for a grandfather, that's exactly what Tatia Starkey is.... more

The Fab Three: Topiary Beatles missing drummer Ringo after it's removed for repairs following vandalism

19.05.08
A foliage sculpture of ex-Beatle Ringo Starr which was beheaded by vandals has been taken away to be repaired. The figure, which took 18 months to cultivate as part of a topiary tribute to the Fab Four, was unveiled at Liverpool's South Parkway train station in March this year. But Ringo's figure was targeted by vandals soon after the unveiling of the artwork ... more

It's the Fab Three as Ringo the beheaded shrub drummer is taken away for repairs

19.05.08
A foliage sculpture of ex-Beatle Ringo Starr which was beheaded by vandals has been taken away to be repaired leaving the Fab Four looking more like the Fab Three. ... more

A magical mystery garden in memory of Beatle George

19.05.08
Chelsea Flower Show became a place of nostalgic reflection as George Harrison's widow Olivia posed by her garden devoted to the memory of the late Beatle alongside Sir Paul McCartney's daughter Mary... more

Here comes the sun: Unique photos of the Beatles in the summer of 1963 before worldwide fame

21.04.08
Four weeks later their lives were to change forever. But in this a collection of unique photographs, the Beatles can still enjoy a quiet few hours sunbathing without, it appears, a care in the world - or being swamped by fans... more

Stella McCartney and Yoko Ono's tearful embrace at funeral of 'Fifth Beatle' - but Macca stays away

07.04.08
The Beatles he loved couldn't be there to say goodbye. It was left to the women to pay the band's final respects to Neil Aspinall, the man who ran the group's business empire for 40 years and was known as the 'fifth Beatle'... more

Macca in mourning for 'fifth Beatle' Neil Aspinall

24.03.08
The man known throughout the music industry as "the Fifth Beatle" has died from lung cancer. Neil Aspinall, who controlled The Beatles' music empire for more than 40 years, passed away in hospital in New York yesterday ... more

Paul McCartney's £200m iTunes payday

07.03.08
Sir Paul McCartney is to release the Beatles back catalogue online - helping pay for his multi-million-pound divorce from Heather Mills.... more

For sale: The first flat they got with a little help from their friend

14.02.08
The only home where the Beatles lived together is for sale... more

Amy Winehouse celebrates Grammys by visiting husband Blake in prison

11.02.08
Amy Winehouse celebrated cleaning up at the Grammys with a visit to Pentonville Jail. The 24-year-old troubled star went to see husband Blake Civil-Fielder today after winning five awards at last night's ceremony. Winehouse, wearing jeans and red high heels, looked healthier than ever as she appears to have put on weight since checking into a rehab clinic last month... more

Too hot to get a handle

28.01.08
They may look like indie oddballs but Hot Chip frontman Alexis Taylor reveals why their climb into the mainstream isn't so strange after all.... more

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