| The bag lady: Rebecca Hosking
Modbury is a little gentrified Devon town with cutesy shops, gourmet delis and lovely architecture. In the past three months, house prices appear to have shot up by 20 per cent over the normal rise, a spike, it seems, directly linked to Rebecca Hosking, a local farmer's daughter who works for the BBC. It was Hosking's return to the town after a 15-year absence that brought it to international attention when, at the end of last year, she embarked on a one-woman mission to rid Modbury's shops and pavements of plastic carrier bags. .
Sondheim and Burton: Devilishly clever
And then, in 1979, he takes a trip to an Afghan refugee camp. And good-time Charlie gets serious. Out of such real-life contradictions springs "Charlie Wilson's War," a new movie from director Mike Nichols. The last in a long year of movies on our Mideast misadventures, it has a script by Aaron Sorkin, star turns by Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and a knowing and flippant tone. Continue reading "Good-time Charlie's misadventure" » .
Club defends hike in directors' pay
PAYMENTS to Watford Leisure Plc directors have more than quadrupled at a time when the club finds itself £2.6m overdrawn. The annual accounts of the company recorded the directors' payments rose from £451,000 to £1.69m during the last year. Chairman Graham Simpson was the highest paid director on £590,708 - an increase of £289,000 from the previous 12 months and over half-a-million more than he received in 2005. The Russo brothers, Jimmy and Vince who were removed from the board in May, received £130,000 each and a further £305,351 between them for Loss of Office'. The remainder is £535,000. The other directors are Andy Wilson and chief executive Mark Ashton. .
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