It's been 10 years since Elle Macpherson launched her underwear label in the UK – and turned us all into frill-seekers

James Cusick on yesterday's key accounts – from the footballer caught by a kiss and tell, to a family ordeal that started with a scoop

The 'core participant victim' on the day she gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry

Elle Macpherson's consultant was falsely accused of leaking to the press, and lost her job and reputation

For these middle-class wives, theirs is an existential crisis borne out of over-high expectations and, frankly, emotional greed, consumerism of the heart

My parents were ... very young when they had me. My mum was 16 and my dad was in his early twenties.

George Osborne, the Chancellor, ought to do a little more practising what he preaches. He is full of the need for austerity measures, promising billions of pounds of cuts in public spending. He expects colleagues to set an example – ministers have been told to travel using second-class train tickets whenever possible. And he has even started lecturing other countries on cuts, warning about high budget deficits around the world when he arrived at the G20 meeting of finance ministers in Korea yesterday. So how did Osborne get to Korea? By business class flight, obviously.

Viewers have complained that a BBC programme, in which a reporter spent "a day in the life" of Elle Macpherson was effectively an "advert" for the supermodel's lingerie collection.

Forget dressing up for a night at the theatre. One London establishment is actively encouraging patrons into their pyjamas. The excuse for this decadence is the latest in a series of Literary Pyjama Parties at 40 Winks, an East End’s boutique hotel.

Imagine a world where everyone tells you the unadulterated truth, all the time. Where people are perfectly to happy to tell you that, yes, you do look like you have gained weight recently; that your latest squeeze is a little out of your league; that it is quite pathetic that you still live with your parents.

Thigh-length, shoe-boots, waders – find the perfect pair and autumn dressing is a walk in the park. Carola Long introduces our definitive guide to a style that's got legs

'King of Bling' returns to board of celebrity jeweller and raises his shareholding

From girdles to gussets, anti-cellulite knickers and push-up bras, an exhibition celebrating the history of women’s underwear opens tomorrow at London’s Fashion and Textile Museum.

We swallowed it in sandwiches. We scoffed it as sushi. Now it's swimming straight towards extinction. How did the global appetite for tuna become insatiable? Martin Hickman reports