Richard Chamberlain News

The 1940s for Doris Duke were packed with enough drama to fill a trashy television miniseries.

COTSWOLD cheese makers created a stink when they scooped top awards at a national ceremony.

As more and more medical dramas arrive on TV screens, each claiming to up the realism ante, Gerard Gilbert wonders how much they are actually addressing healthcare issues Three Rivers Nurse Jackie Given how miserable is the experience of being a hospital patient, we seem to have an inordinate appetite for watching it happen to other people.

Piaget Prez Larry Boland , was in from the Big Apple, displaying the firm's Red Carpet collection of watches and jewels at Neiman Marcus Thursday, including two diamond watches worth close to $2 million.

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I am getting a little uncomfortable with the direction comfort food is taking. Can I blame it on the Gen Y population? Sure, why not.

It was a groundbreaking TV series. Now, 25 years on, it's a lively musical. Lizz Brain trembles again at the passionate priest in The Thorn Birds.

Last week I was shooting the breeze with Amador Mora, the chef at Maximo. We talked about the 24 years he spent working his way up the ranks of the kitchen at the Mansion on Turtle Creek.

A POPULAR farmshop has reopened at Longborough, near Moreton, after being closed for more than a year because of a planning wrangle.

FORGET feminism. Screen beauty Rachel Ward wishes she had done more naked scenes and says all young actresses should be prepared to take their clothes off.

A grassroots effort to help homeless veterans is making some real progress, the Madison Street Veterans Association is a group started by veterans for veterans.

The Santa Barbara Symphony's "Great Granada Finale" - a misleading title, since it is the 2008-09 season that is ending, not the symphony's tenure in the Granada - will take place in the Granada Theatre at 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday.