Corset News Archive - 09-Jan-2008
Helena Bonham Carter isn't quite what you'd expect.
AUSTIN, Texas ? You've heard of Baby New Year. But what about Mommy New Year?
Smackdown Saturday
WITH attractive lucky draw prizes and highly charged entertainment, the Yang Di-Pertua Negeri Gold Cup dinner was an annual affair not to be missed.
As the BBC adaptation of Sarah Water?s excellent novel, Fingersmith draws to its conclusion this Sunday, we caught up with Elaine Cassidy, who plays Maud Lilly, to find out more about the character and her scheming ways.
STRUGGLING to shed your festive season kilos? In the '60s, you bought a corset. In the '80s, you went to aerobics. And in the noughties you see a plastic surgeon.
Girly goth, femme fatale or minimalist; earth mother or power-dresser - which one are you? The answer lies with your inner fashion personality (IFP), says Hilary Alexander.
Can sit-ups help me to get a flat stomach?
If you'd asked housing economist David Seiders at this time last year to forecast the real estate industry's future, he would have told you to expect "a recovery year" in 2008.
Politicians are only fighting the last war when they seek to address supposed regulatory failure with a whole new panoply of rules and procedures. Thus it is with Alistair Darling's well-meaning set of initiatives to prevent a repeat of the Northern Rock fiasco, bizarrely announced through a newspaper rather than to Parliament as promised.
