People under 30 who make the top 10 rich list. According to Sunday Times. Position in brackets last year.

1 (2) New Camilla Hagen £225m Retailing
2 New Arthur Landon £200m Inheritance
3 (3) New Dhani Harrison £160m Inheritance
4 New Fawn and India Rose James £150m Inheritance
5 (5) New Andrew Gower £109m Computer games
6 (6) New The Earl of Pembroke £105m Land
7 New Richard Walters £100m Plant and equipment
8 New James Benamor £77m Finance
9 New Valentino Rossi £75m Motorcycle racing
10= (9) New Andrew Michael £54m Internet

• top 10 Richest Women in the UK
• Top 10 Richest People in the UK

Sunday Times Rich List

The richest women in the UK. The second number is the overall position in the Top 100 list

1. 6 New Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli £5,650m Pharmaceuticals
2. 9 (7) New Sir Philip and Lady Green £4,330m Retailing
3. 13 (12=) New Charlene and Michel de Carvalho £3,630m Inheritance, Brewing, Banking
4. 14 (15) New Kirsten and Jorn Rausing £3,500m Inheritance, Investments
5. 24 (20) New Bernie and Slavica Ecclestone £2,400m Motor racing
6. 44= (31=) New Baroness Howard de Walden and family £1,600m Property
7. 60= (53=) New Lady Grantchester and David Moores and family £1,200m Retailing, Football pools
8. 71= New Hourieh Peramaa £1,000m Property
9. 97 (77) New Russell De Leon and Ruth Parasol £763m Internet gambling
10. 113= (92) New Brian Souter and Ann Gloag £720m Transport

Other notable entries of the richest women:

(144) J.K. Rowling £560 million
(264) Queen Elizabeth II £320 million

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• Top 10 Richest People
• Women Who Changed The World
  

According to the Sunday Times rich List. These are the 10 richest people in the UK. Calculating net worth is not straight forward, but is an estimated value. The position in brackets is there position last year. Lakshmi Mittal is Indian and Roman Abramovich (Owner of Chelsea F.C) is Russian

Top 10 Rich List for Great Britain

1. (1) - Lakshmi Mittal and family £27,700m Steel
2. (2) - Roman Abramovich £11,700m Oil, Industry
3. (3) - The Duke of Westminster £7,000m Property
4. (4) - Sri and Gopi Hinduja £6,200m Industry, Finance
5. - Alisher Usmanov £5,726m Steel, Mining
6. - Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli £5,650m Pharmaceuticals
7. (6) - Hans Rausing and family £5,400m Packaging
8. (8) - John Fredriksen £4,650m Shipping
9. (7) - Sir Philip and Lady Green £4,330m Retailing
10. (9) - David and Simon Reuben £4,300m Property

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• Top 100 Greatest Britons
• Sunday Time Rich List

A recent BBC drama about Florence Nightingale, portrayed a fascinating insight into the life of a young woman who helped to create modern nursing. The drama was mainly based on the own writings and quotes of Florence Nightingale. It gave the drama a very personal perspective. She speaks and writes with great candour and honesty; she comes across as a remarkably determined and independent person.

“What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.”

- Florence Nightingale

• Biography of Florence Nightingale
• Florence Nightingale Quotes

"If you were to ask me to name the one man who more than anybody else had been responsible for the moral collapse in this country, I would name Greene."

"I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up."

"Last Thursday evening, we sat as a family and watched a programme that started at 6.35. And it was the dirtiest programme I have seen for a very long time."


She accused the Beeb of promulgating "the propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt ... promiscuity, infidelity and drinking".

she urged, the BBC should be broadcasting shows which "encourage and sustain faith in God and bring Him back to the heart of our family and national life".


"nature studies, is it?" - Stumbling on two men having sex while out walking in the woods, she greeted them by name and a tutting

Doctor Who, which she upbraided for scenes of "strangulation - by hand, by claw, by obscene vegetable matter".

- Mary Whitehouse Biography

Sources: Mary Whitehouse at Guardian

Victoria Pendleton won a gold medal with sprint partner Shanaze Reade in the Women's 500 metre sprint. In qualifying they set a new world record and were only marginally slower in the final to beat the Chinese.

It was a glorious night for the British track cycling squad, with the Men's 4km pursuit team setting a new world record as they claimed gold. In a performance of near perfection they set a time of 3min 56.322sec to beat the old Australian record set in the Athens Olympics. It was the second Gold Medal for Bradley Wiggins, he had earlier successfully defended his individual pursuit title.

Rebecca Romero also won Gold in the women's individual pursuit title. Her result was even more exceptional given that she recently switched from rowing, in which she was also a world champion and Olympic silver medalist.

Rebbeca Romero wins gold
International Herald Tribune

Victoria Pendleton aims for Gold at Times

In a shock opinion poll, 94% of American voters said they would prefer elections to last two weeks rather than two years.

One voter said, I really don't know why elections have to last two years, it's almost as soon as one election is over, people start campaigning for the next one.

However, political scientists said the two year election trail was essential for creating a mind numbing sense of political boredom, essential for any modern democracy. If the election didn't last for two years what we fill the newspapers and TV programs with?

Furthermore, the American political campaigning season is big business; with each candidate spending $10 billion on election campaigns, the election process has become an essential part of the American economy.

"Cut the election process to two weeks and the American economy could be plunged into a deep recession. Clearly spending several billion pounds on useless political adverts, which don't say anything meaningful, is one of the mainstays of the American economy."

With the credit crunch hitting stock markets, analysts agree that any cut in the election campaigning season would be disastrous for a financial system suffering from decades of mismanagement."

One voter chipped in:

"Maybe if politicians didn't spend all their time campaigning they would have been able to introduce sufficient regulations and checks on the risky subprime mortgage sector and could have avoided the current financial crisis."

However, politicians on both sides argued it was not their job to avoid crisis. It makes much better politics to offer solutions to crisis situations. "I mean if we prevent crisis in the first place who is ever going to know what we have done? However, if we create a crisis we can improve our poll ratings by offering solutions."

There are many problems currently facing professional cycling, some of these problems have dogged the sport for many years.

Doping Issue. Mention cycling and inevitably people think of the doping problem. To be fair it is not just cycling that suffers from a doping problem. But, in recent years, cycling seems to have had more than its fair share of doping revelations and drug scandals. Before, Tommy Simpsons' death in the 1960s, doping was pretty much widespread in the peloton and the dope controls were very lax. Many riders barely attempted to hide the fact they were taking dope (often amphetamines). After Tom Simpson's death, controls were tightened, but, the sport was never really enthusiastic about enforcing strict doping controls. The taking of drugs was too deeply embedded in the sport.

A ground breaking book was Paul Kimmage's - Rough Ride this offered an inside insight into the extent of doping within the peloton. However, its rough reception showed how the UCI and the cycling establishment wanted to try and just brush the issue under the carpet.

After Kimmage's retirement in the late 1980s, the doping issue if anything got worse. With a new generation of performance enhancing drugs, there was an even greater incentive for cyclists to cheat. These drugs included EPO and growth hormones. It was not until the Festina scandal of 1998, that the issue was brought to light with a vengeance. The Festina massuer Willy Voet, was found with a car full of doping products. Comically, he tried to claim they were for personal use. But, eventually the main team members came to admit their guilt.

Yet, despite increasing evidence of doping, the sport has suffered many more scandals with nearly all recent major tour contenders being implicated in some way.

The list is almost too long to name but some of the biggest names to be implicated in doing scandals include:

• Bjarne Riis - Tour winner later admitted to EPO use
• Marco Pantani - would die from cocaine overdose
• Michael Rasmussen - leading 2007 Tour until forced out over missed dope test.
• Lance Armstrong - nothing conclusively proved. Although tainted by relationship with doctor Micheal Ferrari and alleged failed test (however, this test was several years old and has been ruled as being inadmissable as evidence)
• Jan Ullrich - implicated in Fuentes scandal, packets of Ullrich's blood was found stored with Fuentes
• Alexandre Vinokourov - failed dope test in 2007 tour after making dramatic recovery in a time trial stage.
• David Miller - British cyclist admitted to taking EPO, banned for 2 years, now back racing
• Tyler Hamilton - Olympic gold medallist - later failed drugs test.
• Flloyd Landis - Leading 2006 Tour, when failed a test for testosterone after making dramatic stage win.

• Cycling Blog including profile's of leading procyclists.
• Cycling Review - review of cycling products and cycling clothes
• Doping in cycling at BBC
• Cycle doping at Guardian
  

Recently, I went into the Starbucks in Oxford and was shocked at how poor the experience was. Usually, I go to Cafe Nero in Blackwells bookshop. These were the main problems of Starbucks

• Long Queue. There always seem to be a long queue at Starbucks; as a result the staff seem stressed out. On one or two occassions I had stopped going to Starbucks rather than wait in the long queue.
• Coffee was weak and feeble. I ordered a small dry cappucino. It was like drinking a piece of coloured milk. I could barely taste the coffee. A similar small dry cappucino in Costa Coffee or Cafe Nero is much better. It was so bad I didn't bother drinking it. True, I might have been able to queue up and complain; but what's the point? I don't want to have to complain.
• Atmosphere. The atmosphere reminded me of McDonalds or a slightly upmarket Little Chef. This is a terrible insult by the way. Coffee shops should have class, style and dignity. The place was also quite dark, dingy and loud. This is completely different to the coffee shops in the Oxford bookstores.
• Price. The price is no different to other coffee shops. I wouldn't have minded paying an extra 20p for better coffee and better environment.
• That was my experience; but the fact it was so busy shows they must be doing something right. I guess they don't need miserable old men like me...
• Low Pay on short term hours. I used to work in Little Chef, where you never knew how many hours you were going to work. This is very bad.

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• Is price of starbucks a rip off?
• Starbucks takes a day off

Below are genuine announcements made by Tube Drivers on the London Underground.

"To the gentleman wearing the long grey coat trying to get on the second carriage, what part of 'Stand clear of the doors!' don't you understand?"

At Camden town station (on a crowded Saturday afternoon): "Please let the passengers off the train first. Please let the passengers off the train first. Please let the passengers off the train first. Let the passengers off the train FIRST! Oh go on then, stuff yourselves in like Sardines, see if I care, I'm going home."

"Ladies & Gentleman, upon departing the train may I remind you to take your rubbish with you. Despite the fact that you are in something that is metal, fairly round, filthy and smells, this is a tube train for public transport and not a bin on wheels."

"Ladies and Gentlemen, do you want the good news first or the bad news? The good news is that last Friday was my birthday and I hit the town and had a great time. I felt sadly let down by the fact that none of you sent me a card! I drive you to work and home each day and not even a card. The bad news is that there is a point's failure somewhere between Stratford and East Ham, which means that we probably won't reach our destination. We may have to stop and return. I won't reverse back up the line - simply get out walk up the platform and go back to where we started. In the mean time if you get bored you can simply talk to the man in front or beside you or opposite you. Let me start you off: 'Hi, my name's Gary how do you do?'."

"Your delay this evening is caused by the line controller suffering from elbow and backside syndrome, not knowing his elbow from his backside. I'll let you know any further information as soon as I'm given any."

"Please mind the closing doors..." The doors close... The doors reopen. "Passengers are reminded that the big red slidey things on the side of the train are called the doors. Let's try it again. Please stand clear of the doors." The doors close... "Thank you."

"I am sorry about the delay, apparently some nutter has just wandered into the tunnel at Euston. We don't know when we'll be moving again, but these people tend to come out pretty quickly... usually in bits."

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I do apologise for the delay to your service. I know you're all dying to get home, unless, of course, you happen to be married to my ex-wife, in which case you'll want to cross over to the Westbound and go in the opposite direction".

"Ladies and gentlemen, we apologise for the delay, but there is a security alert at Victoria station and we are therefore stuck here for the foreseeable future, so let's take our minds off it and pass some time together. All together now.... 'Ten green bottles, hanging on a wall.....'."

"We are now travelling through Baker Street, as you can see Baker Street is closed. It would have been nice if they had actually told me, so I could tell you earlier, but no, they don't think about things like that".

"Beggars are operating on this train, please do NOT encourage these professional beggars, if you have any spare change, please give it to a registered charity, failing that, give it to me."

During an extremely hot rush hour on the Central Line, the driver announced in a West Indian drawl: "Step right this way for the sauna, ladies and gentlemen... unfortunately towels are not provided."

"Please allow the doors to close! Try not to confuse this with 'Please hold the doors open'. The two are distinct and separate instructions."

"Please note that the beeping noise coming from the doors means that the doors are about to close. It does not mean throw yourself or your bags into the doors."

"May I remind all passengers that there is strictly no smoking allowed on any part of the Underground. However, if you are smoking a joint, it's only fair that you pass it round the rest of the carriage."

In my view, the best 3 American Presidents were

• Thomas Jefferson. The Author of the declaration of independence. Took over the Presidency when the opposition were restricting freedom of the press. On winning his bitterly contested election, Jefferson restored press freedoms. Thomas Jefferson also introduced bills in Virginia for Religious Freedom at a time when religious freedoms were rare.

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

- Thomas Jefferson

• Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln strove to keep the American Union together. In doing so he was able to also defeat the pro slavery movement. Abraham Lincoln expressed some of the most memorable words for the dignity of human aspiration. Lincoln Quotes

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds.... "

- Abraham Lincoln

• George Washington. Father of the Nation. George Washington was an undoubted patriot who helped oversee the birth of a new nation. George Washington Quotes

See also: Top 100 people who changed the world

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of the worldwide transcendental meditation movement TM, passed away recently, aged 91.

Born in India, the Maharishi, moved to the West and began teaching meditation in 1955. During the 1960s, the movement gained increased media attention as many such as the Beatles and other pop stars came to meditate with the Maharishi.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the transcendental meditation movement became practised throughout the world; it also became a profitable commercial enterprise. The Maharishi hoped and believed that through the widespread practise of meditation global peace would become more of a reality.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Biography

Quotes on religion by John Lennon

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
John Lennon

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
John Lennon

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
John Lennon

Quotes on Peace by John Lennon

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
John Lennon

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
John Lennon


Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
John Lennon

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
John Lennon

Quotes on Life

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
John Lennon

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
John Lennon

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John Lennon

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
John Lennon

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
John Lennon

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
John Lennon

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
John Lennon

The more I see the less I know for sure.
John Lennon

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.


God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
John Lennon

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
John Lennon

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Quotes on Love

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
John Lennon

Everything is clearer when you're in love.
John Lennon

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.


Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
John Lennon

Quotes on Music

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
John Lennon


If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
John Lennon

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon

• John Lennon Biography

Quotes on Society

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
John Lennon

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
John Lennon

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
John Lennon


The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
John Lennon

Quotes on the Sixties

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
John Lennon

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
John Lennon

Today at long last we are starting upon the road - I emphasise starting - which I believe will take us to lasting peace in our Province …
Today we salute Ulster's honored and unaging dead - the innocent victims, that gallant band, members of both religions, Protestant and Roman Catholic, strong in their allegiance to their differing political beliefs, Unionist and Nationalist, male and female, children and adults, all innocent victims of the terrible conflict …
I have sensed a great sigh of relief amongst all our people who want the hostility to be replaced with neighborliness …
I believe that Northern Ireland has come to a time of peace, a time when hate will no longer rule. How good it will be to be part of a wonderful healing in our Province.

Ian Paisley

Speech as First Minister at Stormont on return of devolution to Northern Ireland, May 8 2007.

People have come out of a dark tunnel and they can see there is a path out there for us. I think it has put a lot of faith and hope into people.
Ian Paisley
On eve of being sworn in as First Minister at the start of a new era of power sharing between DUP and Sinn Fein, May 7 2007.


I will never sit down with Gerry Adams . . . he'd sit with anyone. He'd sit down with the devil. In fact, Adams does sit down with the devil.
Ian Paisley
Independent, February 13 1997.

“Line dancing is as sinful as any other type of dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching. It is an incitement to lust.”

“You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals,” pre 2007

“There were no photographs, no detailed inventory, and no detail on the destruction of these arms. To describe today's statement as transparent would be the falsehood of the century,” pre 2007

• Biography Ian Paisley
• The miracle of Belfast - Paisley and Adams Meet

Today at long last we are starting upon the road - I emphasise starting - which I believe will take us to lasting peace in our Province …
Today we salute Ulster's honored and unaging dead - the innocent victims, that gallant band, members of both religions, Protestant and Roman Catholic, strong in their allegiance to their differing political beliefs, Unionist and Nationalist, male and female, children and adults, all innocent victims of the terrible conflict …
I have sensed a great sigh of relief amongst all our people who want the hostility to be replaced with neighborliness …
I believe that Northern Ireland has come to a time of peace, a time when hate will no longer rule. How good it will be to be part of a wonderful healing in our Province.

Ian Paisley

Speech as First Minister at Stormont on return of devolution to Northern Ireland, May 8 2007.

People have come out of a dark tunnel and they can see there is a path out there for us. I think it has put a lot of faith and hope into people.
Ian Paisley
On eve of being sworn in as First Minister at the start of a new era of power sharing between DUP and Sinn Fein, May 7 2007.


I will never sit down with Gerry Adams . . . he'd sit with anyone. He'd sit down with the devil. In fact, Adams does sit down with the devil.
Ian Paisley
Independent, February 13 1997.

“Line dancing is as sinful as any other type of dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching. It is an incitement to lust.”

“You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals,” pre 2007

“There were no photographs, no detailed inventory, and no detail on the destruction of these arms. To describe today's statement as transparent would be the falsehood of the century,” pre 2007