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Plumbers at war over celebrity clients

2009-11-04T08:48:34Z

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

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

2009-10-02T07:37:59Z

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

Grape expectations from Andrew Edmunds

2009-04-07T23:00:00Z

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

Paradise postponed

2009-02-25T11:02:28Z

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

Iggy Pop insurer refuses to give car cover to musicians

2009-02-23T09:28:39Z

A car insurer which has a �25million ad campaign starring veteran rocker Iggy Pop refuses to insure musicians

More quango jobs on Olympic gravy train

2009-02-17T09:38:14Z

Lawyers rush to freeze assets as recession turns nasty

2009-02-03T09:48:51Z

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

There are three people in this marriage

2008-11-25T09:41:19Z

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

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

2008-11-24T08:38:25Z

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

Coming soon: �92m blockbuster at Kensington Odeon

2008-11-21T08:41:06Z

Plans to turn the Kensington Odeon cinema into a �92 million housing development have been given the go-ahead

Retail

2008-10-01T14:40:01Z

These are the people who will steer London�s vital retail world through what looks like difficult trading ahead

Sue Nye is in spotlight over Peston scoops

2008-10-03T09:07:01Z

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?

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

2008-09-08T22:24:33Z

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'.

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

2008-08-15T22:16:23Z

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

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

2008-07-29T21:57:31Z

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.

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

2008-07-24T21:48:17Z

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

John Cleese's fling with a blonde HALF his age

2008-07-19T21:01:34Z

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

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

2008-07-19T18:21:12Z

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.

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

2008-07-10T09:00:35Z

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.

Watchdog smells rats - but can't catch them

2008-07-01T10:59:58Z

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

Restoring status at Quo Vadis

2008-06-03T23:00:00Z

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

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

2008-05-27T23:08:08Z

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

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

2008-04-24T07:58:10Z

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

An age I remember

2008-03-13T00:00:00Z

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.

A glittering return to form

2007-10-23T23:00:00Z

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

Coming soon for autumn

2007-08-24T11:13:07Z

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

Legendary family taste

2007-05-22T23:00:00Z

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.

Victory in cinema fight

2006-11-28T12:33:03Z

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

Winner vows to save Kensington cinema

2006-09-18T11:13:52Z

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

A floored genius

2006-08-15T23:00:00Z

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.