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This is what the UK's perfect woman looks like according to results of a bizarre survey conducted by supermarket Morrisons.

Is this your ideal woman? She has Katherine Jenkins's hair and Samantha Cameron's nose...

This is the face of Britain's ideal woman, according to a bizarre new survey.

Anthony Hilton: Celebrating tradition

Arbuthnot Latham, one of the City’s oldest still independent banks, was founded by a Mr Arbuthnot and a Mr Latham in 1833 to trade and subsequently to finance trade with India.

Jessica Hynes - The 'totally amazeballs' actress who won the Olympics

In Twenty Twelve, Jessica Hynes added another unforgettable character to her roster. So what's next? She talks to Gerard Gilbert

My Secret Life: Greg Rutherford, 25, Athlete

'I pride myself on my cakes'

Graham Coxon

Fantasy Band: Graham Coxon, Blur

'Mitch Mitchell wasn't the most accurate drummer ever, but he had that swing...'

Popular classics: Mexican singer Rolando Villazón

Rolando Villazón - Why variety is the spice of life for this top tenor

Opera star Rolando Villazón is relishing his royal turn on TV, he tells Jessica Duchen

Ex-soldier James Blunt in war of words with RAF

Top brass angered by claims of military incompetence after singer's morale-boosting trip to front-line troops is thwarted

Slimming gurus go to court after celebrity diet is branded fantasy

Two leading French dieticians will slug it out in court tomorrow for the title of lightweight champion of the world.

Sarah Sands: The selling is down to a fine art – but how fine is the art?

The Tiger Mother Amy Chua relentlessly harnessed her daughters to the piano and the violin and willed them into top-rank concert halls, but she may have been a little soft with them. There is no record of her squeezing them into bodices and trying to turn them blonde.

Classical music festival fails to pay its performers

Musicians, caterers and other suppliers are among those still owed tens of thousands of pounds by the organisers of Serenata

Jamie Corringan: Britain's boo-boys should tune into India v Pakistan for real sporting rivalry

Maybe the sociologists are right, perhaps in an anodyne society the need to be tribal and tovent one's frustration is understandable. Sounds a pile of tripe to me

Tributes paid to 347th UK fatality in Afghanistan

The latest British soldier to die in Afghanistan was named yesterday by the Ministry of Defence as Corporal Steven Dunn of 216 Parachute Signal Squadron, Royal Corps of Signals.

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