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Spies 'targeted Le Monde to protect Sarkozy'
Friday 02 September 2011
The French security services broke the law on the orders of Élysée Palace last summer to try to halt a series of politically embarrassing leaks, it was alleged yesterday.
Sarkozy took illegal cash from L'Oréal heiress, claims judge
Thursday 01 September 2011
New book rekindles speculation about corruption in run-up to 2007 election
John Kampfner: The wealthy should pay more tax. Why has it taken so long?
Friday 26 August 2011
Three myths are being punctured: that higher levels of tax are a disincentive to the middle classes; that oligarchs will go elsewhere; that they won't bring in enough money
Sean O'Grady: Buffett and the French are on their own
Thursday 25 August 2011
In France and America the super-rich – including Liliane Bettencourt (Europe's wealthiest woman and the L'Oreal heiress) and Warren Buffett, (the US investor who pays just $7m on his fortune of around $50bn) – are clamouring to pay more tax. Yet in Britain, the Chancellor is thinking aloud about cutting the top rate of tax. What is going on?
Magazine admits it did alter picture of Duchess
Friday 12 August 2011
The fashion magazine Grazia has admitted that it did indeed alter a picture of the former Kate Middleton on her wedding day to make her look slimmer.
Reforms of teacher training will bring mass shortages, report finds
Thursday 11 August 2011
Education Secretary warns his proposal to bar candidates with poor degrees will badly hit maths, languages and sciences
Preview: Shotgun by Imbue
Wednesday 03 August 2011
He's been known to smuggle fake heroin and cocaine vending machines onto Brighton pier and deface Cheryl Cole's L'Oreal billboards. Now artist-come-media-stunt-pro Imbue is to display his latest work at No Walls Gallery, Brighton.
Christie Brinkley's anti-ageing range
Tuesday 02 August 2011
Christie Brinkley is launching her own skincare range.
Pierre de Villemejane: Picking up the pieces at Wedgwood
Thursday 28 July 2011
The fine china icon is back from the brink under a new French boss
Advertising watchdog bans airbrushed L'Oreal ads
Wednesday 27 July 2011
Make-up adverts featuring the airbrushed images of actresses Julia Roberts and supermodel Christy Turlington have been banned by the advertising watchdog following a complaint from an MP.
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