With the perfect dress, the flowers in place, the table plans artfully composed, it just wouldn't have done for the royal wedding to have smelled of musty antique carpets... more
It's the most sought-after shade in town - that certain mane of blonde that just looks impossibly fabulous. Alice Hart-Davis meets the man who makes it happen... more
Literacy campaign: The Evening Standard's Get London Reading campaign has smashed through the £100,000 barrier thanks to Londoners' outstanding generosity... more
A 'worthless' medicine package due to be signed by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - and the Kings of Leon and David Cameron - went for an astonishing £120,000 at London's most glittering annual charity auction... more
Tony Blair and model Laura Bailey have joined the Evening Standard's campaign to tackle illiteracy in the capital and the former Prime Minister pledged to fund 10 volunteers... more
Marks & Spencer model Noemie Lenoir was found unconscious by ex-partner Claude Makelele after apparently attempting to commit suicide, it has emerged... more
If you want perfection, ask a high-maintenance woman where to get it. Sophie Goodwin persuades London's beautiful people to reveal their secret addresses... more
The dictum that you are what you eat refers to ideology and social status as well as nutrition. Morrisons understood that the southern middle classes would convert only if they believed they were really shopping at Waitrose, but cheaper... more
AA Gill’s Blonde was the fairest of them all. Then she decided to become a brunette. Would she still be able to work her magic or do blondes really have more fun?... more
You own the most desirable brand of pushchair and transport the kids around in one of those fearsomely expensive children's trailers - all of which makes you the epitome of yummy-mummy cool, right? Wrong!... more
Novelists, film-makers and actresses are taking their children to Parliament to demonstrate against Heathrow expansion and coal-fired power stations... more
With so many parties and launches to go to a girl can start find it all a bit tiresome. So it's not surprising Peaches Geldof could barely hide her boredom as she took in a show at London Fashion Week. ... more
In a new book ex-Special Branch detective RON EVANS tells of his toughest job - protecting Salman Rushdie and the girl he was desperate to get into bed.... more
It's the £1,000 dinner with a difference. Guests at a charity banquet in London next month can look forward to soup made from nettles picked from Hyde Park, and wild fennel plucked from the banks of the Regent's Canal in Hackney... more
Endless partying. Wild drinking. As Geldof's girls (just 17 and 18) evoke memories of their tragic mother Paula Yates, why won't Sir Bob intervene? ... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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