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Ashby faces ruin after libel case

REBECCA FOWLER

Ashby 'paid over the odds' for flat

David Ashby, the Tory MP, paid over the odds for a flat in south-west London, after he separated from his wife, because he was so keen to live next door to a male friend, according to the woman who sold it to him.

Wife claims Ashby threatened to kill her

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Global village prepares to welcome Andrew Neil

Andrew Neil, the combative former editor of the Sunday Times, has landed a major BBC chat show a year after his planned American prime time programme failed to materialise.

MP tells of furious wife's 'Queenie' jibe

Ashby libel case: Court hears men fled as 'all hell broke loose'

Wife hurled knives at MP over 'gay affair'

David Ashby MP once had to lock himself and an elderly male friend in their rooms when his estranged wife began throwing knives and plates after accusing them of having an affair, the High Court heard yesterday.

Tory MP sues over 'gay' report

The Tory MP David Ashby sued for libel yesterday over a newspaper report which he says claimed he was a homosexual, liar and hypocrite.

'Telegraph' delay on succession

Britain's highest selling broadsheet, the Daily Telegraph, remained rudderless last night as a fourth deadline for the appointment of a new editor passed without a decision.

words : Robust

VOGUE words come and go. Fabulous is pretty well finished, and fascinating has been sent packing, to eke out its days among the second-rate blurb- writers. In the 1960s desperately was the in-word for very. Another 30 years back, the chatterers' expression for bad was wan, for good divine (today we'd think they meant pale or godlike).

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Chosen few given taste of success at Aspen eyrie

"Take your ties off," a beaming Rupert Murdoch told his assembled News Corporation executives and VIP guests who had been flown to his eyrie in Aspen, Colorado, from every corner of the world.

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