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In the ugliest divorce since Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, Humza Yousaf called a press conference to announce the SNP and the Greens were going their separate ways. Relationships are a fickle thing. On Tuesday, the First Minister said he wanted the Bute House Agreement to continue. Yesterday he was changing the locks and summoning an Uber for Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater. Yousaf spoke from Bute House's Room of Doom, the chamber where Nicola Sturgeon unveiled her pact with the Greens and where she later announced her resignation. Doom is where his leadership is heading, so the setting was apt.

Airbnb saw a remarkable 93 percent increase in bookings in Ravello, a city located approximately 15 minutes away from Atrani, a seaside town with a local population of less than 1,000 people where Ripley was filmed. Bookings in Minori, another lesser-known spot just 8 minutes away from Atrani, increased by 63 percent, according to the home-sharing site. Released earlier this month, the Netflix series Ripley comes 25 years after the Amalfi Coast was stunningly featured in the 1999 film adaptation of Highsmith's novel. As tourists flock to the picturesque town, local residents and business owners are bracing themselves for unprecedented challenges posed by large crowds this summer.

The heroic founder of the Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society, Dinah Johnson, fears that the Royal Mail 's proposal to reduce delivery days to two or three a week will spell the end of the letter. 'This is how you get to the death of letter-writing. I didn't think when I set up the society that there would be a scenario where the service is threatened, but it is.' So just how well do you know your letters? Take the test and find out...

BRIAN VINER: If I compiled my list again today, I still wouldn't have space for The Italian Job, Forrest Gump, The Great Escape, or Titanic, which all of which encouraged readers to write in. By the way, that doesn't mean I don't like or even love those photos (although not Titanic), which makes me wish the iceberg would strike a bit sooner). Here is a list of the Top 20 movies you should have included in my Top 100 list, as well as your reasons for... The Shawshank Redemption (left), Mary Poppins (right), and Saving Private Ryan (inset).

According to Elizabeth Taylor, the author of a new book on their rollercoaster romance, Richard Burton's 'Shakespearean dreams' were shattered by her. During the construction of their 1963 mega-flop Cleopatra, the two couples engaged in a wild affair when they were both married to other people. Their tumescent affair became a Hollywood celebrity, with the pair getting married and divorced twice in the middle of a blizzard of alcohol-fuelled zeal.

Double chins can be the scourge of even the most beautiful women in the country, with actor Richard Burton once claiming that Elizabeth Taylor had one. However, researchers now claim that the humble soya bean will rid of the unwanted facial fat. In a lawsuit, a drug is being used selectively to break down submental fat, which affects 60% of people. Research has suggested that the fat, often associated with being overweight, can run in families, and results in loss of skin elasticity with age

Magic formulas must exist for successful TV shows, but actors and writers have yet to find a foolproof spell. Instead, they keep falling back on the classics, remaking favourite shows in the hopes that lightning will strike twice. Here we examine eight classics and compare them to their remakes - some are better than the original, some are more popular but equally good, and at least one of them is a horrible clunker.

JAN MOIR (left): Jeremy King (left) is back where he belongs, sporting his latest restaurant (right), which also happens to be his old restaurant and, perhaps more importantly, was his first restaurant. From 1981 to 2000, the King of Arlington, Texas, operated it with his business partner Chris Corbin as Le Caprice. It was purchased by billionaire Richard Caring in 2005, who closed it three years ago due to the pandemic, but the name and plans to relaunch it in a London hotel were mischievous. However, it is no surprise that it was King Le Caprice's version that thrilled and delighted London. The opulent, the undeniably popular, and the indelibly royal became a favorite haunt in St James's under Corbin & King's direction.

Ellie Goulding, 37, had a glamorous night out at the UK Women in Music festival hosted by Sony this week wearing a stunning floral mini dress. But before she hit the tiles, she shared a series of Instagram posts educating her 13.9 million followers on life after Mr Jopling's 32-year absence. A photograph of the mother of one sunbathing topless in skimpy bikini bottoms by a pool in Costa Rica this week, a precursor to a more cryptic post alluding to the break-up after four years. Ms Goulding posted a sample from a letter sent to Elizabeth Taylor from Richard Burton shortly after he left him in 1973, but the couple divorced in 1976.

Ellie Goulding went topless in a tumultuous snap from her Costa Rica holiday that she shared with her 13.9 million Instagram followers on Thursday. In a video shared on Instagram, the singer, 37, was enjoying a refreshing dip at sunrise as she chronicled her flight away from husband Caspar Jopling, which comes in conjunction with her long-awaited announcement of her divorce. In the snap, she reclining by a pool in just bikini bottoms and showing off her lithe body - right after Richard Burton's 1973 letter to Elizabeth Taylor about her departure from him.

My source tells me that the trip was hoped to take part of Biden's trip to Europe in June to attend the G7 summit in Italy, with time running out before November's presidential race. However, there is a snag. The Palace intends that the visit take place pre-G7 and not afterwards. Why? Because it clashes with Royal Ascot, the King seems determined to maintain his late mother's high attendance records. Don't tell Sleepy Joe!

After a fire three years ago, a grand mansion that has housed Winston Churchill and Richard Burton is being demolished. The impressive Bontddu Hall, which is located in the Welsh countryside, was devastated by a serious fire in June 2020 that resulted in the death of the owner's wife. According to a structural analysis, the repair costs of the building have decreased by more than £4.5 million and the building's asking price has been reduced by more than £750,000 to remain as a private residence or be turned into a stunning hotel. Despite the decrease in price, the mansion hasn't sold, and Eryri National Park Authority has been given the opportunity to demolish the building and build eight new houses in its place. The agent Christie and Co. said, "It has hosted a number of popular guests over the years, including Sir Winston Churchill.'

Robert Forbes, 39, was part of the off-road convoy and leapt into the River Esk in North Yorkshire to try to pull the three victims from the Land Rover Discovery, including his father, Leslie, 70. Witnesses saw him riding his bike behind his father, who was born in East Yorkshire, and his friends, Scott Daddy, 28, of Hull, and Kenneth Hibbins, 59, of Yorkshire, were caught in a separate car. On Thursday, he was seen yelling to assist after being pulled underwater while attempting to cross the treacherous ford just before midday.

Joan Collins is the only one alive who overheard Judy Garland's apology for being late because 'Liza won't stop crying'. Nevertheless, Hollywood was horrible. The designers had hoped for sexual favors. If only she'd be 'nice' to the head of the 20th Century Fox, Joan was offered Cleopatra. Elizabeth Taylor blasted Richard Burton, another predatory actor, indignably, so instead, she got the part opposite him.'

At the Noel Coward Theatre on Monday, Cel Spellman sported a nasty black eye as he opened The Motive and the Cue. As he posed for photographs ahead of watching Jack Thorne perform, the actor's eye looked bruised and bloodied. It's unclear how Cell recovered the injury, and he hasn't updated followers on his social medias.

Julian De Bono was last seen in the early hours of Sunday morning wandering down Yarmouth Road toward London Road. Specialist divers and search teams using kayaks have been drafted with Suffolk Police, and the river Gipping's immediate area has received as much attention as possible.' The 63-year-old from Ipswich is described as black, about 6ft1in, and of a slim build. He has a receding hairline, with a sleek gray and black beard.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: It's almost unchanging in its charm, it cast its spell on Laurence Olivier and his one-time lover Dorothy Tutin, which led to Richard Burton and Margot Fonteyn's call, as well as Olivier's second wife, Vivien Leigh. Chelsea Reach, the hamlet of houseboats bobbing on the Thames' north bank, has included Damien Hirst, the ageing art world enfant tragic, among its occasional residents. However, the magic isn't about to fade indefinitely. Many on dry land, including Sir Mick Jagger and Tetra Pak billionaire Hans Rausing, will learn their fate at a crucial meeting of the local planning authorities on Tuesday.

Can there be anything new to say about the king and queen of excess?Lewis answers with a stonking yes as Lewis' distinctive insight and wit bring the tale-binding, super-charged Hollywood couple who lived life as a spectacle and whose bed-hopping earned Vatican condemnation as 'erotic vagrancy.' Voluptuous Liz and Brooding Burton were two diamond-decked, mink-lined icons of indulgence for those who merged with illusion and reality. Their extravagance was delectable. When Taylor flew to Leningrad, she took 2,800lbs of excess luggage - that's nearly a ton and a half of clothes!She needed 21 suites at a Paris hotel on the Champs-Elysee in order to film in Paris. They simply bought their own jet to go for lunch in Nice one day.

After being likened to a "largest loob rotisserie" or "kebab rotisserie," the proposed development, yards from a grade I-listed civic building that was once described as the world's best neo-Greek structure, is expected to divide opinion. The sculpture, which is in honor of the comedian who died at the age of 90 in 2018, has been unveiled as part of the Sir Ken Dodd Happiness Centre's renovations. If approved, the £15 million building, a four-story extension of the Royal Court Theatre, will become a permanent home to the Sir Ken Dodd archive and Happiness exhibit on display at National Museum Liverpool.

Heathrow, the country's showpiece hub airport, represented everything that was thrilling about British life in its heyday. Passengers dressed in their finest clothing, celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton could be seen draped in his-and-hers mink coats, while industry captains swept in and out on Concorde. However, any remembrance of those glorious days has long past, as successive governments have shamefully allowed the airport to be a lucrative plaything for a number of foreign owners. Ferrovial, a Spanish company, had a 55% stake in Heathrow sold to the French and the Saudi Arabia government as part of a burgeoning trend for selling off UK PLC's most valuable assets last week. Saudis, French, China's, Qataris, Canadians, Singaporeans, and Australians now own the airport at 90 percent. One has to wonder if any other country would be foolish enough to encourage a significant piece of national infrastructure, with such strong economic and strategic value, to be dispersed to a slew of foreign investors, some from despotic regimes and largely unaccounted for to the British travelling public.

Liz Taylor wore the iconic gown when she won the 33rd Academy Awards for her role in Butterfield 8 in a glittering moment, was stashed in a suitcase at the home of a friend of the actor for decades. Although French fashion house Dior said for years that Taylor's Oscar dress was on display in its Paris archive, an email from a London auction house last year revealed the shocking truth about its whereabouts. The Mail is now telling the tale of how Taylor's gown came out stashed in the wardrobe of a window cleaner's daughter from London, who's likely to sell up to £100,000.

Numerous books have been published about the Beatles, but this glimpse of them through the eyes of their nearest aide shows not only the group's heavy workload, but also how, without knowing it, the Beatles' regular demands became part Circle's crumbling scaffolding of Mal Evans' life.

Hollywood celebrities have fallen madly in love and then broke up only to reunite to revive the romance. It's called romance redo. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, who got engaged over 20 years ago, are now happily married and are happily married. Most people are unaware that Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber met many years ago before they split up and returned to Selena Gomez. In a courthouse, the two families separated, and he wed Alec Baldwin's niece. PINK and Carey hart were on then and off before continuing. Adam Levine and model Behati took a break before tying the knot. Chrissy Teigen and John Legend also participated. Of course, not all reunions have happened. Miley and Liam Hemsworth were a couple for a long time, then broke up, then reunited, and we'd all agree and it was sad to see them again. The pattern is not new. Elizabeth Taylor wed Richard Burton in the first year and divorced him only to get married again and divorced again. And musician Marie Osmond wed Steve Craig in her youth, then divorced and did it all over again; happily, they are still together; Here's a look at the most popular redo romances. They were on the internet and Carey hart before going into the rest of the world. Behati, Adam Levine, and Levine had a break before tying the knot. Chrissy Teigen and John Legend were among the many celebrities who supported him. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck split then wed, but they are far from the only stars who've redone romance: Justin Bieber and Hailey were off then on, as were P!NK and Carey Hart, and - much earlier - Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton

Tramp, a wealthy, popular, and royal playground, has closed suddenly, and it seems that it has been illegally sold. After members of a £1,000 yearly subscription received an email advising them that the club has been canceled, a byword for nocturnal overindulgence, inebriation, and sinking into sensual dissatisfaction in Mayfair seems to be uncertain. Johnny Gold, the club's legendary Founder, opened the club on December 18, 1969. Mick Jagger was a founder member of the First Night, and hellraisers Peter Sellers, Michael Caine, and Richard Harris were with him on the opening night. Tramp became a film and rock 'n' roll celebrity overnight. When in London, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Marlon Brando, and Charlton Heston were all regulars. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor will both be able to pass by. On one night, three James Bonds, Roger Moore, Sean Connery, and George Lazenby were all in the club having dinner at the same time, which was Tramp's pulling power. Jack Nicholson French-kissed a tramp outside the club's unassuming entrance on Jermyn Street one night. Keith Moon, the Who's legendary drummer, had a penchant for removing all of his clothes and dancing naked. He was barred from removing a crystal chandelier on one occasion, but after his chauffeur returned with £500, he was allowed back 48 hours later, naked and strapped to his iconic white Rolls-Royce's bonnet before bursting away at dawn. George Best was at Tramp. Best once punched regular Sir Michael Caine on a night when the footballer appeared to muscle in on Bill Wyman's birthday, when the footballer uninhibitedly turned up with almost a dozen women in tow. In fact, it was reported that girls dressed up for Annabel's nearby Tramp and then they erupted for Tramp. Tara Palmer-Tomkinson was assured of her entry when she turned up in nothing more than a bikini under an open fur coat for her 21st birthday party.