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Designer dresses for a bargain in jumble sales of the stars

13.11.09
It might conjure up visions of rummaging through piles of musty clothes in village halls - but now the jumble sale has gone glamorous... more

Emma Thompson: BNP would love your university

06.11.09
Emma Thompson attacks a university for failing to accept enough ethnic minority students - and said the BNP would like it there... more

Tracey Emin praises Dominic Cooper's new film

21.10.09
Tracey Emin was full of praise last night for the movie adaptation of An Education starring Dominic Cooper and Emma Thompson.... more

Phyllida Law lifts curse on burglar who returned her gargoyles

24.09.09
Actress Phyllida Law has discovered a new persona: a witch who can apparently lay a curse on a petty thief... more

Haute hotels and chic suites

18.09.09
When you've dressed the world's most stylish women, the next step is designing a hotel's figure-of-eight plunge pool and introducing live seahorses into the lobby. Andy Barker sizes up the latest collection of chic suites... more

London Film Festival to play host to big-name stars

09.09.09
Hollywood stars George Clooney, Bill Murray and Meryl Streep will be among the big names to attend the London Film Festival... more

Last Chance Harvey reunites Emma and Dustin

05.06.09
The warm and rosy whole is defeated on most counts in Last Chance Harvey, starring Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman.... more

VIDEO: Watch Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson at Last Chance Harvey premiere

04.06.09
Old romantic Dustin Hoffman planted a smacker on his co-star Emma Thompson when they were reunited at the premiere of Last Chance Harvey.... more

Now children are punished for going to good schools

07.04.09
News of the latest salvo in a strange war between parents and the Government comes from Durham University, which has turned down a boy from St Paul's School with four A grades at A-level... more

Emma's paper flight of fancy

28.01.09
Celebrities have sketched designs on paper planes for a protest against the aviation industry... more

The special relationship just got even less special

19.01.09
Last week, a British newspaper ran a front-page story about a remark by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama's new Secretary of State, during her confirmation hearings for the job... more

The 'hypocrites' of Heathrow

16.01.09
Celebrity critics of the third runway at Heathrow were accused of "hypocritical behaviour" by a government minister... more

Green activists warn of 'almighty battle' ahead

15.01.09
Environmental groups warned Heathrow bosses to expect years of disruption to prevent the construction of a third runway ... more

The cause celebs

14.01.09
From Gaza to airport expansion, the big issues are stirring our famous faces into action... more

Thousands sign up to buy slice of third runway site

13.01.09
Thousands of people have signed up to join the campaign against the third Heathrow runway by buying part of a field near the airport... more

Brits storm the Golden Globes

11.12.08
The British have stormed the shortlists for the prestigious Golden Globe film awards... more

Film

08.10.08
Given the financial hurricane that devasted the City last month, that 2008 is shaping up to be a good year for British film and our leading directors and actors ... more

Revisited Brideshead is no match for TV ancestor

07.08.08
Much-anticipated new interpretation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited becomes consumed with nostalgia for the Granada series.... more

Actress Emma Thompson introduces her 'adopted' refugee son at Mandela party

26.06.08
With actor husband Greg Wise and her unofficially adopted son Tindyebwa Agaba around Emma Thompson doesn't have to look too far for a dashing leading man.... more

Amy turns to the soft stuff (that's vodka and whisky for her) after snubbing Mandela photocall

25.06.08
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

Brides-ted Resuscitated - reprieve as Aloysius the bear is set to appear in £10million movie adaptation of classic English novel

18.05.08
To purists, he was an essential part of that classic English novel Brideshead Revisited. So they were aghast when it was revealed Aloysius the teddy bear would not feature in the £10million movie adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's upper-class saga. However, as our picture reveals, Lord Sebastian Flyte's furry companion has been granted a reprieve – even if he has lost rather a lot of weight since last seen in the 1981 TV version ... more

Blue blistering Barnacles, it's the new Tintin

28.03.08
A south London sixth-former has landed the role of Tintin in a major movie adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg... more

Emma Thompson's 'adopted' Rwandan son moans about Britain's 'pathetic celebrity culture'

05.03.08
Five years ago he left a life of unimaginable hardship as a child soldier in war-torn Rwanda to join one of the most successful families in Britain. Tindyebwa Agaba, the 20-year-old 'adopted' son of Emma Thompson, has lived at the actress's Hampstead home and had his university education paid for by her ... more

Art for humanity's sake reveals sex trade horror

24.09.07
Long queues greeted the launch of the latest artwork to take up residence in Trafalgar Square.... more

Will the Brits get the gongs?

21.12.06
British actors have put in some prizewinnning performances this year. They'll get Oscar nominations, just don't expect them all to win.... more

As good as it gets

05.12.06
She's an international film star with two Oscars, but Emma Thompson tells Justine Picardie that a dull evening in with the family is as good as it gets for her.... more

Hero is written out of his own story

30.11.06
Will Ferrell is not usually of the "less is more" school of acting but he has discovered its advantages in Stranger Than Fiction.... more

Helena lands Potter role

02.08.06
Film news: Helena Bonham Carter has won the role of evil Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange in the next Harry Potter film. The 40-year-old star will play one of Lord Voldemort's followers in the forthcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.... more

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