With their budget of around £25m and a wish list that includes a prime central London location (a savvy investment and handy meeting point when work sees both of you continually circumnavigating the globe), sufficient space for six kids and, for the vineyard-owning parents, a private wine cellar, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have set their sights on a penthouse in Marylebone.Ten years ago, that would have been an unlikely sentence. Marylebone was one of those cut-through areas of the West End whose Read more [...]

Comments (1) If you have more than £1million to spend on a home in Cambridge then there are some spectacular properties on offer. You could own a part of Cambridge's history with a house which has Hobson's Conduit running through the front garden, live in a house on a development which won the RIBA Stirling prize or enjoy a garden which runs down to the banks of the River Cam.  Here are the top 10 most expensive properties on the market in the city. Read more [...]

-------------------------------------------------- How the mighty have fallen. Off the wagon, that is. When Diary caught up with Ronan Dunne, the CEO of O2 Telefonica UK, at a recent media dinner, he announced he was off the booze for November as part of a “health kick”. Sadly, the telecoms chief’s clean-living drive is already on hold. At the weekend, Mr Dunne posted a snap of himself outside a Dublin pub on Twitter, complete with a Guinness montage (below). As the Ireland Read more [...]