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The paint's the thing for Frank Auerbach

05.11.09
Frank Auerbach's thickly textured depictions of post-war building sites turned painting into a three-dimensional art.... more

Simon Mann's road to freedom

04.11.09
As British 'dog of war' comes home, Stephen Robinson looks at the politics behind his release and what the future might hold for him... more

Meet Georgina Chapman: jewellery designer, fashion mogul and Mrs Harvey Weinstein

30.10.09
Georgina Chapman has it all: a mogul husband, a successful fashion label and now her very own jewellery line. What more could a girl from Richmond desire?... 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

Gloria Vanderbilt: the grand dame of New York society

21.08.09
Gloria Vanderbilt's life of scandalous affairs, intriguing business ventures and unbridled extravagance has provided the material for her latest creation - a steamy novel that has Manhattan in a spin... more

Pete Doherty is given time to plead on driving charge

11.08.09
Pete Doherty posed for pictures on a court steps today before being given until October to decide on his plea. ... more

Look Kate Middleton, all the best families have a black sheep

20.07.09
Dear Kate (if I may), Forgive me for writing out of the blue but I grabbed the Basildon Bond as soon as I heard that the Middleton skeleton seems finally to have tumbled out of your tidy family closet... more

Hounded: Otis Ferry... rock star's son, huntsman, jailbird

19.06.09
It's been six months since he was freed from prison, but Otis Ferry is still shaken by his ordeal behind bars. How did the hunter become the hunted?... more

Vultures have the funds - now for the feeding frenzy

22.05.09
There will soon be more vultures in the sky than turkeys on the ground if this week's spate of pledges to buy distressed property is anything to go by ... more

Party girl Eugenie lights up the West End with her glowstick necklace

10.09.08
Princess Eugenie lit up the night as she partied at a West End night club with a glow-in-the-dark stick.... more

£60 for two... the best (value) meal in town

02.09.08
The London Restaurant Awards paid tribute last night to the Evening Standard for creating an award for restaurants which offer good meals at a low price... more

Pete Doherty faces arrest after he misses court date AGAIN

17.07.08
Magistrates have issued a warrant for the arrest of troubled rocker Pete Doherty today after he failed to attend a court hearing on criminal damage charges - for the second time.... more

Children swap life stories as schools link up with Africa

15.07.08
Twenty-two London schools are being twinned with their counterparts in Africa, in a scheme run by the charity for which Evening Standard readers raised £171,000... more

Step back in time to castles and palaces

09.07.08
Go back in time to a land of fairytale castles, battleships or Victorian drudgery. Daralyn Danns looks at the places that bring history and heritage alive.... more

Princess Eugenie told off for 'frolicking naked in school grounds'

14.06.08
Princess Eugenie has been reprimanded by her public school after she was involved in 'high jinks' towards the end of her school term. The princess 'danced around without any clothes'.... more

Brewery sale pays off with profits leap for Young's

29.05.08
London brewer Young's decision two years ago to sell its Ram Brewery in Wandsworth for £46.6m and spend the money on buying more pubs is fully vindicated as it reports much higher than expected profits... more

Pete Doherty walks free from jail with certificate that proves he is clean of drugs... and heads home for a drink

06.05.08
Like a schoolboy emerging from a spelling test, he proudly brandished a certificate bearing the words 'well done'. But Pete Doherty's precious piece of paper proved only that he had passed a drugs test while in prison. He seemed delighted to have it as he left just 29 days into a 14-week sentence, declaring he wanted to 'keep it together and work on my music'... more

Let the Welsh pay for their own gallery

15.01.07
The principality has put a ragbag of its pictures briefly on show at Christie's - and brought the begging bowls too, says Brian Sewell.... more

Man who put everyone in the picture

06.11.06
When an Austrian archduke, appointed by a Spanish king, employed a Flemish painter to copy his collection, the first ever illustrated art catalogue was born.... more

London pubs where time has stood still

13.09.06
They are the pubs that time forgot. From Victorian grandeur to the glamour of art deco, London's perfectly-preserved antique drinking holes are being honoured in a new list from CAMRA.... more

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