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Chance meeting at university led to long-term friendship

10.10.11
While Adam Werritty's career comes under scrutiny, little is known about his personal life.... more

Sir Philip Green's girl is Made for Chelsea show

05.09.11
The 20-year-old daughter of one of Britain's richest entrepreneurs may enjoy a life of privilege but she just wants the public to know her as a person... more

25 reasons to go to Edinburgh Festival

02.08.11
The annual arts jamboree north of the border begins tomorrow and - from Tim Supple's One Thousand and One Nights to Marc Almond's Ten Plagues and Omid Djalili's new show - there is plenty to make the trip worthwhile... more

Syria president's brother calls in helicopter gunships for crackdown

13.06.11
Heavy fighting continues in Syria as troops led by President Bashar Assad's brother Maher regained control of the town of Jisr al-Shughour, 25 miles from the Turkish border... more

Biofuels policies have backfired, report claims

13.04.11
Policies to boost 'green' transport fuels have backfired by damaging the environment, driving up food prices and encouraging human rights abuses, a report warned ... more

Former bank worker who helped to bring chaos to streets of London

29.03.11
A demonstrator who joined anarchists causing chaos in the capital is a privately educated former finance worker whose girlfriend was a reality TV star... more

The name game - the weird science of nominative determinism

25.03.11
A man called Rich Ricci has become one of the highest-paid bankers in the UK ... is this some kind of sick joke, or a scientific inevitability? Roger Highfield on the power of nominative determinism... more

Philip Lambert - the quiet man behind the historic BP-Rosneft deal

19.01.11
Profile: The huge £10bn oil tie-up was arranged not by the Square Mile's superstars but by Philip Lambert and his tiny firm... more

X factor driving us from here to Timbuktu

19.01.11
A London surgeon has set off to cross the Sahara to help scientists find a cure for a leading cause of autism... more

Pubs’ local hero

13.01.11
One entrepreneur is determined to save London’s boozers, reports Nick Curtis... more

Painkillers linked to increased heart attack risk

12.01.11
Commonly used painkillers increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes when taken at high doses or over the long term, according to new research... more

Mitsubishi invests in UK green energy

03.12.10
Mitsubishi announces a £100 million investment in a green energy centre in Britain... more

JK Rowling's £10m gift to fight the illness that took her mother

31.08.10
Author JK Rowling is giving £10 million to combat multiple sclerosis because she is haunted by the way it killed her mother... more

Boris Johnson gets on with the day job as his private life is questioned again

15.07.10
It was business as usual for Boris Johnson, despite being confronted with the latest colourful claims about his private life... more

British meteorologist to fly on next Shuttle space mission

11.05.10
The crew for the next Shuttle voyage arrives at Cape Kennedy in fighter jets for their mission to the International Space Station... more

Politicians are on a rocky road to poets’ corner

13.04.10
Where most people see culture, politicians (or rather their minders) usually see only banana skins... more

The Pill helps women live longer

12.03.10
Women who have taken the Pill can expect longer lives than those who have never been prescribed the oral contraceptive, research suggests... more

Let them eat cake: Kate Middleton to share baking passion with brother James

18.02.10
Kate Middleton could join London’s cake boom by going into business with her brother James. He tells Liz Hoggard about his passion for baking.... more

The dark side of free love: Mamas and Papas

28.09.09
The incestuous, drug-fuelled relationship between Mamas and Papas star John Phillips and his daughter Mackenzie has cast a different light on the era of peace and love. One London writer who survived the early Seventies remembers how boundaries were blurred and lives ruined... more

Will Gompertz is light on laughs

10.08.09
Edinburgh Comedy: Will Gompertz's act is good clean fun but as close to stand-up as Rothko is to Ricky Gervais.... more

Kasabian are fire-raisers

23.07.09
Kasabian's reputation as a formidable, rabble-rousing live act was confirmed by a relatively intimate show for 3,000 iTunes competition winners.... more

Deep thinkers on the Piccadilly line...

21.05.09
A London reading group that meets in pubs up and down the Piccadilly line has been named one of the top book clubs in the country... more

I’ve had it with buying gifts for my man

04.12.08
December is here again and I am still stuck for gift ideas ... more

High Street heads for a bleak Christmas

23.10.08
The High Street is headed for the emergency room this Christmas, according to the latest in-depth survey of the health of the retail sector... more

Woe on high seas as well as High Street

23.10.08
While there is nothing but gloom on the High Street, with predictions of the most dismal Christmas ever, it could be worse for the retailers — they could be trying to sell satnav for the world’s smartest yachts... more

GPs 'could become as hard to find as NHS dentists'

08.10.08
Finding a GP in London could soon be as difficult as signing up with an NHS dentist, a health expert warns... more

A future Tory Cabinet ... at least according to Tatler

09.09.08
Ten young Conservatives - billed as the party's stars of the future - have been transformed from dour political animals to fashionable clothes horses... more

Food guru Gillian McKeith reveals the agony of her deformed back

24.05.08
She's been called a dwarf, a midget pipsqueak and even a turkey wrapped in Bacofoil. Well here's what her tormentors don't know... she suffer from scoliosis - a severe abnormal curvature of the spine.... more

Fawn James, the £650m queen of Soho, hits a club on her manor

28.03.08
Porn heiress Fawn James enjoyed a night out in Mayfair last night, just a stone's throw away from neighbouring Soho, where her late grandfather Paul Raymond made his millions through a porn and property empire. The 22-year-old, who is expected to take a large slice of Raymond's £650 million fortune following his death last week, spent the night partying at Embassy ... more

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