Descendant of founder of British chocolate maker is to launch her own company to rival US giant

CPC Group, owned by Christian Candy, pictured, has snapped up part of British Land's former HQ close to Regent's Park in London for about £35m. CPC has bought Siddons House from developer Oakmayne Properties and will rent it to wealthy clients.

"You must learn how barren is the life of a sinner," the sadistic headmaster Mr Brocklehurst (Simon McBurney, excellent) exhorts.

Princess Park Manor is attracting X Factor stars and C-list celebrities by the luxury-limo load, says Chris Beanland.

Charlie Cooper talks mansion tax with voters in Richmond

Clifford Norris was a major player in the south London drugs trade who reputedly used his contacts and his criminal know-how to keep his son out of the dock for the murder of Stephen Lawrence.

Riots and protests by the disaffected poor with the looming spectre of "mob rule", have often troubled MPs and lords at Westminster.

As Lord Byron takes centre stage in the West End, Boyd Tonkin explains how an outspoken champion of the poor became a cultural superstar.

Le Voyage... is Georges Melies' 1902 film landmark – the first "sci-fi" film ever. After many years' restoration the only surviving hand-coloured print was shown at Cannes last year and Air were commissioned to compose backing soundtrack music.

Their last major music collaboration was in 1976 – and now the two are at daggers drawn over a new reality TV show

As Downton Abbey takes US TV by storm, its creator is under attack from America's favourite British historian

Rapists and murderers benefit as former Mississippi hardliner has extraordinary conversion

America's First Lady uses TV interview to hit out at rumours that she's losing Barack friends and alienating Washington's powerful people