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Plumbers at war over celebrity clients

04.11.09
Plumbers in the capital are preparing for battle, with London’s biggest private firm accusing a rival of trying to steal famous clients including Keira Knightley and Hugh Grant... more

Rod Liddle: Maybe I was wrong to say I wouldn't sleep with Harriet Harman

02.10.09
Rod Liddle has outraged feminists with his sexist comments about Harriet Harman but he tells Viv Groskop he's really on their side... more

Grape expectations from Andrew Edmunds

08.04.09
Soho stalwart Andrew Edmunds does a good line in simple, well-made food — but it's the wine list that's the main attraction.... more

Paradise postponed

25.02.09
There is deepening anxiety among rich London investors who bought into a £280 million Caribbean development. Now building has suddenly been halted and Andrew Lloyd Webber is at the forefront of moves to investigate the delays... more

Iggy Pop insurer refuses to give car cover to musicians

23.02.09
A car insurer which has a £25million ad campaign starring veteran rocker Iggy Pop refuses to insure musicians... more

Lawyers rush to freeze assets as recession turns nasty

03.02.09
Media analysis: As the recession begins to deepen, we can expect the courts to issue an increasing number of injunctions against independent financial advisers... more

There are three people in this marriage

25.11.08
And we don’t mean the chef’s alleged mistress. It’s his father-in-law, the man known as the Grim Reaper, who holds the key to Ramsay’s business and family life... more

Liar's Poker author Michael Lewis has been revisiting his inside story of investment banking in the 1980s

24.11.08
Liar's Poker author Michael Lewis has been revisiting his inside story of the "Big Swinging Dicks" of investment banking in the 1980s... more

Coming soon: £92m blockbuster at Kensington Odeon

21.11.08
Plans to turn the Kensington Odeon cinema into a £92 million housing development have been given the go-ahead... more

Retail

08.10.08
These are the people who will steer London’s vital retail world through what looks like difficult trading ahead ... more

Sue Nye is in spotlight over Peston scoops

03.10.08
BBC Business editor Robert Peston has been leading the pack with his stories on the nationalisation of Bradford & Bingley, the Lloyds TSB-HBOS merger and the run on Northern Rock. But where does he get his information?... more

MICHAEL WINNER: Sorry, but I don't want old dears reading the news

08.09.08
There's nothing sadder than a bunch of unemployable has-beens rising up like the witches in Macbeth and moaning 'TV is unfair to us because we're old'.... more

As X Factor returns, we reveal how Simon Cowell makes do on his paltry £35m salary

15.08.08
Simon Cowell started out as a humble office boy and is now the world's best-paid male TV personality, worth an estimated £112million.... more

Wish I wasn't here ... Michael Winner has a bad day in Bognor

29.07.08
It seems as if everyone's holidaying in Britain this year. So what happened when the Mail asked shameless hedonist Michael Winner to take a break in Bognor Regis? Hold on to your kiss-me-quick hats. ... more

John Cleese's Basil Fawlty-style rant at his ex wife and mother - 'I thought I'd never get rid of her'

24.07.08
During a talk which was supposed to focus on raising money for conservation work, John Cleese launched a tirade against his estranged third wife. ... more

John Cleese's fling with a blonde HALF his age

19.07.08
Monty Python star John Cleese is dating a blonde magazine executive half his age.... more

Our divorceymoon! What happened when Cleese and Winner invaded Switzerland on a six-day road trip

19.07.08
The pair set off on a six-day road trip to Switzerland to consolidate their extraordinary bond over fondues, lake views and somewhat lively debates over directions – or lack of them.... more

Fright in the night: Anne Robinson's scary face turns heads at Sir David Frost's summer party

10.07.08
Anne Robinson may have at least £9,000 worth of plastic surgery, but last night it didn't exactly appear to be money well spent.... more

Watchdog smells rats - but can't catch them

01.07.08
In his classic 1940 book Where Are The Customers' Yachts?, Fred Schwed Jr takes on the follies of Wall Street in a way never bettered since. By his telling, Wall Street is a kindergarten full of incurable romantics, children who really believe all that guff they spout even as it is being proven spectacularly wrong... more

Restoring status at Quo Vadis

04.06.08
After a rocky few years under Marco Pierre White, the Hart brothers have got the Soho stalwart back on track.... more

How an Alsatian called Oscar became a derelict man's best friend ... and a pal of the celebrity world

28.05.08
Dennis was a derelict when he saved a starving Alsatian he named Oscar Schindler. The two formed a remarkable showbusiness partnership.... more

The trouble is, Ken - it's a question of trust

24.04.08
Polls show Ken ahead of Boris on most issues but behind on voting intentions and trust. As Tony Blair found - if people don't trust you, not much else matters ... more

An age I remember

13.03.08
Using the arrest of John Gielgud as the pivot of his play, Nicholas de Jongh gives himself the opportunity for wit that ranges from polished Wildean repartee to vulgarities worthy of Kenneth Williams.... more

A glittering return to form

24.10.07
The Fountain may be a brasserie in hours and outlook but it is still a solidly traditional British restaurant.... more

Coming soon for autumn

24.08.07
After the silliness of the summer blockbusters, autumn brings a crop of films for grown-ups. See our preview here.... more

Legendary family taste

23.05.07
It has a dining room that's as hard to get into as Madonna's leotard, and it's been doing it for 40 years. Marina O'Loughlin toasts the success that is Le Gavroche.... more

Victory in cinema fight

28.11.06
Campaigners who have been fighting to save the Odeon cinema in Kensington High Street from demolition are celebrating a partial victory.... more

Winner vows to save Kensington cinema

18.09.06
Michael Winner has called the decision to demolish one of London's last surviving Art Deco cinemas "an act of vandalism".... more

A floored genius

16.08.06
The closure of that Chiswick landmark, Fouberts, was a great loss. But it's replacement, High Road Brasserie, is so lovely that maybe progress ain't so bad after all.... more

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