Monday, 6 April 2009

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Why the second home allowance fracas is not going to disappear

Today, 12:29pmParliament has risen for a two-week Easter break and MPs have leftWestminster to spend more time with their homes - sorry, their families. But if they believe the row…   READ MORE 

Cancer-sufferer Farrah Fawcett ‘unconscious’ in LA hospital

Today, 12:11pmThe Charlie's Angels actress Farrah Fawcett, one of the most famous sex symbols in the world when she was known as Farrah Fawcett-Majors in the 1970s, is unconscious in a…   READ MORE 

Berlusconi threatens press over gaffe reports

Today, 11:12amItaly's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (pictured) has threatened his country's press with "direct and tough" punishment after Italian journalists took great pleasure in reporting a series of gaffes he made…   READ MORE 

Cheryl Cole ‘needs elocution lessons’

Today, 8:00amIt appears Simon Cowell, the pop tycoon and X Factor judge, has a Professor Henry Higgins complex - and that Cheryl Cole is his Eliza Doolittle. According to a report…   READ MORE 

Boatengs quit SA after bullying claims

Today, 7:53amPaul Boateng, the former Labour MP who became Britain's first ever black Cabinet minister, is returning from his post as Britain's High Commissioner in South Africa following claims that his…  READ MORE 

Charlotte Rampling seeks to block book

Today, 7:51amThe English film actress Charlotte Rampling, known for a series of roles in sexually explicit films, including Georgy Girl and The Night Porter, has brought in lawyers to try to…   READ MORE 

Candy and Tori Spelling in memoir war

Today, 7:47amThe two women in the life of the late Aaron Spelling - his widow Candy Spelling and his actress daughter Tori Spelling - are squabbling over their memoirs of life…   READ MORE 

Former Beatles Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr back together again

Today, 7:40amFormer Beatles Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney appeared on stage together for the first time in seven years on Saturday night, at New York's Radio City Music Hall. In a…   READ MORE 

Clare Balding in soup after Grand National

Today, 7:34amDid the BBC's doyenne of sports broadcasting, Clare Balding, overstep the mark on Saturday when she welcomed the winning jockey Liam Treadwell (pictured) into the winners' enclosure at Aintree after…   READ MORE 

Second tragedy for Morgan Tsvangirai

Today, 7:30amLess than a month after his wife Susan was killed in a road accident, Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai suffered another family tragedy on Saturday when his youngest grandchild, two-and-and-a-half…   READ MORE 

Geoff Hoon joins the ‘easy living’ brigade

Today, 12:00amAnother senior Labour politician appears to have mislaid his moral compass. After Jacqui Smith and Tony McNulty were both exposed for their ingenious use of House of…   READ MORE