http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-23150-ringo-starr/topic-rss.do Ringo Starr RSS feed http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23764171-avivas-moss-sees-profits-on-way-as-he-faces-city.do 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 2009-11-04T08:36:53Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23751511-hes-no-wally-with-pound-860k-gold-profit.do 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. 2009-10-02T06:06:49Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23740232-all-you-need-is--a-second-lennon-blue-plaque.do 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 2009-09-04T07:54:12Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23722022-beatles-fans-will-walk-in-fab-fours-footsteps.do Hundreds of Beatles fans are to walk over the Abbey Road zebra crossing to mark the 40th anniversary of the famous album cover picture 2009-07-21T06:30:57Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23718047-computer-games-pressing-all-the-right-buttons-to-defy-crisis.do 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 2009-07-10T08:04:52Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23702487-beatles-put-their-first-song-online.do Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have announced they are putting their first song online 2009-06-02T09:39:09Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23694409-lording-it-over-the-landlords-cant-help-them-run-the-pubs.do 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. 2009-05-19T07:41:27Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23630166-text-tussle-of-the-retail-rivals.do 2009-01-28T10:01:25Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23625298-hollering-and-stomping-in-folk-america.do 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. 2009-01-22T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23620338-deripaskas-new-headache-in-the-balkans.do 2009-01-15T10:18:02Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23618243-snake-oil-wont-insure-we-still-put-our-trust-in-aviva.do Meet Bill Smith. Bill has been selling insurance for longer than anyone can remember to at least half the inhabitants of AnyTown 2009-01-13T10:36:19Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23600805-weve-heard-the-purnell-spiel-on-welfare-before.do 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? 2008-12-12T09:41:12Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23584415-mariah-wins-the-big-one.do Mariah Carey's husband Nick Cannon certainly looks pleased with his missus after she picked up the Lifetime Achievement honour. 2008-11-10T13:24:40Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23538336-ellen-degeneres-marries-lesbian-partner-portia-de-rossi-in-sunset-la-ceremony.do Chat show host Ellen DeGeneres and actress Portia de Rossi were married following an intimate ceremony in the grounds of their LA home. 2008-08-16T12:25:07Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23531470-a-new-starr-is-born-ringos-granddaughter-takes-to-the-stage-with-her-rock-band.do She crashed out the guitar chords like a born rocker. And with Ringo Starr for a grandfather, that's exactly what Tatia Starkey is. 2008-08-12T21:19:53Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23485770-the-fab-three-topiary-beatles-missing-drummer-ringo-after-its-removed-for-repairs-following-vandalism.do 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 2008-05-19T16:16:35Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23485907-its-the-fab-three-as-ringo-the-beheaded-shrub-drummer-is-taken-away-for-repairs.do 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. 2008-05-19T15:30:28Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23485670-a-magical-mystery-garden-in-memory-of-beatle-george.do 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 2008-05-19T09:17:32Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23479458-here-comes-the-sun-unique-photos-of-the-beatles-in-the-summer-of-1963-before-worldwide-fame.do 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 2008-04-21T07:12:31Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23475426-stella-mccartney-and-yoko-onos-tearful-embrace-at-funeral-of-fifth-beatle---but-macca-stays-away.do 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' 2008-04-07T16:30:20Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23462906-macca-in-mourning-for-fifth-beatle-neil-aspinall.do 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 2008-03-24T08:13:14Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/article-23450270-paul-mccartneys-200m-itunes-payday.do Sir Paul McCartney is to release the Beatles back catalogue online - helping pay for his multi-million-pound divorce from Heather Mills. 2008-03-07T09:51:13Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23437655-for-sale-the-first-flat-they-got-with-a-little-help-from-their-friend.do The only home where the Beatles lived together is for sale 2008-02-14T08:38:21Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23436766-amy-winehouse-celebrates-grammys-by-visiting-husband-blake-in-prison.do 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 2008-02-11T07:11:57Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/article-23434503-too-hot-to-get-a-handle.do 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. 2008-01-28T12:58:59Z