Golden shoes and Adlington mania greet returning Olympic double medal winner

Becky Adlington had only just put Mansfield on the map, and here she was trying to stop her ecstatic home town disappearing again.
"No, no, that wouldn't do at all," she cried, as plans to rename the whole place Adlington for the night were revealed before she jumped on an open-top bus to deafening cheers.
Two pubs and her own street already have temporary new signs and a £4.5m swimming pool is going to be the Rebecca Adlington Centre for ever. Why not go the whole hog, the Dickson family, festooned with union flags in Market Square, wanted to know? And they weren't the only ones.Out of the confusion emerged the mayor and a maroon velvet cushion, embroidered with a gold inscription and topped by a pair of gold Jimmy Choo shoes.
Martin Wainwright reports from Mansfield as Rebecca Adlington arrives home

'It's been a long-term disaster'

Neil Fox may once have killed a man. But this is no Felix Dennis-style confession, rather a discovery that the DJ and former Pop Idol judge made about a previous life while filming for the ITV1 paranormal show Have I Been Here Before?. It turned out Fox had. "It was a celebrity regression thing and I ended up in my mind going back to the middle ages," recalls Fox, who believes he was genuinely hypnotised. "I was in somebody's castle - apparently I was in love with the local earl's daughter and he didn't want her to see me because I was just a travelling minstrel. So me and my bunch of merry men stormed his castle and I put an arrow through him."
Which may be somewhere close to what Fox felt like doing five years ago when he missed out on the show he had always seemed destined to present - the Capital Radio breakfast show. Then the station's long-serving drivetime DJ, Fox seemed to be the front-runner to take over from Chris Tarrant, only for management to choose Johnny Vaughan. Back then he called management's running of the station "appalling". Now he is rather more relaxed. "I had wanted to leave Capital for quite a time. I don't know whether I would have taken it," Fox says.
The pair know each other well - their wives went into business together with a shop on Kings Road in west London. Fox's wife, Vicky, was a shoe designer and a former protege of Jimmy Choo. She has retrained as a yoga instructor. "She is unfeasibly supple," volunteers Fox, rather unnecessarily. But if Park will be one of the key radio executives to watch over the next few years, then so will another of Fox's former colleagues - Tim Davie, the BBC's newly appointed director of audio and music, who was marketing chief at Pepsi when Fox presented the Sunday-afternoon Pepsi Chart Show.

Sponsorship bonanza awaits UK's new queen of the pool

Rebecca Adlington's double gold medal success will ensure her lucrative earnings from sponsorship and endorsement deals, with her potential boosted by the fact the Olympics are coming to London next, say experts.
'Certainly her phone will be ringing with agents who want to represent her. If she isn't already represented by someone, she certainly will be soon,' said Karen Earl, chairwoman of the commercial-sponsorship consultancy Synergy.
'A number of brands will want to be associated with her. As I was watching the television I was thinking "Well, girl, you're in the money".'
And for the teenager with a passion for shoes, another treat awaits. The mayor of Mansfield, Tony Egginton, said: 'When we did our Olympic send-off, I promised her a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes if she bought back gold.'

High street buys into Manhattan's teenage preppies

Think tartan skirts. Think pearls. Think piped blazers and the ker-ching of cash registers across the UK as the latest US fashion phenomenon sweeps down through our TV and broadband cables and rolls out on to our high streets.
Gossip Girl, the most talked about American teenage television drama and, perhaps, the most cynical product placement exercise in history, is set to transform British teenage girls into preppy Manhattan Upper East-Siders.
After the summer release of the film Sex and the City, a follow-on from the hugely successful US television show which placed shoes by Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnik right at the top of the fashion-conscious female's wish-list, Gossip Girl is even more unashamedly commercial. She is the daughter of Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw. And, despite her highly conservative look, she is definitely more aggressive.

A master of all trades

Humorous and outgoing, Bichard is discreet, for example about the position of cabinet secretary in succession to Sir Richard Wilson; his enthusiasm for civil service reform seemed to chime with Tony Blair's priorities. "I never
applied for the job, because that's not how things work." He goes on: "I've always wanted to do different things and I've not been driven by singular ambition to be something. I don't think I've missed out."
Why did he leave the civil service? "I decided in 2001 I didn't want to go to another department and that it was probably time to do something different."
So he came to the London Institute, which became the University of the Arts in 2004. "I developed a completely new career. I've got a new set of friends and a circle of interests. The fact that I can now say Jimmy Choo is a friend is just wonderful." What else has he gained from life outside the civil service? "I'm not as quick to anger as I used to be. Running a university, especially a creative arts university has taught me quite a lot, made me a better listener," he says. Leave the job, he says, with a sense of energy and fun. "I would never want someone to come into my organisation and say this is a grey place."

200 Woolworths shops close amid fears of more retail casualties

It has an atmosphere of a sinking ship in there," said mike mountain, 57, an electronic engineer last facing the city in the seaside battery grocery using 1 and safety goggles and 50 pence masks. "It has existed for a long time, but it's time to see it go. There are other shops and live better cheaper."
Have some of the same desolate air in woolworths Wokingham, Berkshire, employees about 40 employees, all the people were fired on Wednesday. Teller name, who gave his calf, said: "I went to college, this is a part-time job, but many of the boys has been here for years, and without any material lined up for the future."
"The last day!" Say a window signed poster in the seaside woolworths, town, the north London a trickle of customers browse CD and stationery in shelf branch of half-empty last-minute trading yesterday. Meanwhile, in knightsbridge queue formed in harrods from midnight to hundreds of women and the tiled interior scorch for gucci and Prada handbags and Jimmy Choo shoes.

Kelsey learned his trade with Jimmy Choo

Dali universe, an article 3000 square feet of space in London county hall exhibits the life and work of the surreal Salvador Dali, has opened a new exhibition work of modern fashion designer. Dali - inspired clothes modernism, Manish nervous (British tags Arora aksu characteristics and bora, from big those fantastical name, like julien MacDonald, Moschino and Sonia Rykiel. Enough to send clothes lover fashion craze.The best new shoe designers' surnames both begin with K. The most desirable are Jonathan Kelsey and Nicholas Kirkwood, two purveyors of sexy killer heels with a sharply distinctive style. Kelsey learned his trade with Jimmy Choo after graduating from Central Saint Martins in 1996, and launched his label in 2007. He's already carved a niche for himself with his elegantly sculpted heels, which are sold in Selfridges, Harvey Nichols and Joseph. Fellow Brit Nicholas Kirkwood, who established his line in 2005, creates finely constructed architectural shoes which are stocked at Browns, Liberty and Start.

woman will sell their biological function of decision like many Jimmy Choo

Well, maybe not. When frank thinks, "commodify surrogate... threat not only little baby, but the woman will sell their biological function of decision like many Jimmy Choo," do you want to know his concern is the real benefits of working class or a pure female body mythically from market welcome.Alex Kuczynski's recent New York Times magazine cover story about hiring a surrogate to carry her biological child was frank to the point of inviting backlash. Some readers were offended by photos juxtaposing the style reporter's affluent lifestyle (her husband is a wealthy hedge fund manager) with that of Cathy Hilling, the middle-class mother and schoolteacher who agreed to have Kuczynski's baby for a $25,000 fee.
Enter Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter with Kansas, who brings a perverse kind of balance to the Wall Street Journal. His snide critique of Kuczynski reminds me that much is still wrong with the traditional male left, which Frank represents, even as he tries to grapple with 21st-century women's issues.
Taking potshots at the super-affluent is business as usual this season. Snarky comments about Kuczynski's marriage ("this spoiled brat and her rich sugar daddy") and parenting style ("I guess there were no children who needed adoption in your state") were to be expected from New York Times readers. Gawker's take is casually dehumanising, even toward Kuczynski's son – which seems a bit rough, until you remember that Gawker treats everyone that way.

Rebecca Adlington loves Jimmy Choo

Rebecca Adlington open tear a pack of cheese puffs, use a kind of happy sigh, to her crisis darker and more interesting places.She talks quickly as she eats, paying homage to Strictly Come Dancing and her Jimmy Choo shoes before admitting how she would love to win tomorrow evening's BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.
Adlington both interesting and charming but below the cheese regiment dross, words like "sacrifice" and "pain" go to start chatting, can understand how a seemingly ordinary 19 turned himself into a sports superstars won two gold MEDALS in the Beijing Olympic Games.Her anecdotes, drifting from the "lovely Gordon and Sarah [Brown]" to "beating my mum and Aldo Zilli on Ready Steady Cook", are told with riotous good humour. But Adlington is far more interesting when she moves on to her real life, her swimming life.

Multiple choice

I want a classroom assistant every class. They make a great difference. Our two production Christmas play, for example, a support for all of the English teaching in 5 and 6 and a support all the math. It's like having two or more weapons and another brain, usually best children on their looks more like a big sisters or mom in the classroom, although they more, then very skilled. I often think classroom assistants would strengthen their teachings, but dilute 100%.
I also like every child has Christmas without fear, cold and hungry, because it should be a magical time, yet so easy it not.
I want to a complete limit any new ideas, goals and evaluation. And a pair of Jimmy Choo for arthritis feet!

Life and style

Movies, politics and sport also appears in mark in fashion this year, with the release of the "sex and the city" movie, Italian fashion first all-black problem, and the Olympic gold medal who finally got very own pair of Jimmy Choo
Last year's low (gwyneth of seven - a stilettos) and also fashionable heel - less boots).
Hats are a recurring theme, from fruit platter in haute couture shows in January, annual entertainment at ascot in June, not to mention to Sarah. Brown's violet blue beret in December.

Jimmy Choo, designer shoes company

It is the largest company in consumer debt burden to reduce their flowers its existence is the most dangerous. After all, this is a huge debt burden add needs to give a high rent two main causes of death Woolies.
Debt - market experts buy Debt troubled companies to take control of their future. They have largely spared the retail sector -- that can't yield no possibility of profits. Savviest businessman told the observer: "we see technical weakness conversion basic events. We think this opportunity, on companies with the first-class products and low leverage. Without so much for this class of retail in. We wouldn't touch with a barge pole retail. It's hard to know where it will be in a year's time. We are watching the telecommunications and cable companies. Food to a certain extent, but it is often crazy leveraged."
A trawl through debt market confidence small investors demonstrates how to recover some of the potential in Britain's biggest names. Debt fat face, surfing, ski - inspired clothing store outside, in last week against the dollar is 35p in the earth. Jimmy Choo, designer shoes company, has a its debts 28p only trade. One of the best enterprise bond market, the new image, house of Fraser and Debenhams transactions, are in 60p mark, has the strong display can't be good.

Take a look at all the celebrities who attended the British Fashion Awards

Many in last night's winners reflect London a creative status, instead of commercial fashionable. When Jimmy Choo, now planning stylist brand, win the Mellon tamara, this year the up-and-coming shoe designer rupert sanderson was awarded the prestigious annex stylist awards.
Signing Williamson transfer another shrewd creativity comes from Germany Bosch van birth consultant. Wear good clothes, haute - Bohemian belongs to a flop - influenced color combinations have commonplace, jade jagger sienna miller, Kate moss in their Glastonbury - to - Ibiza summer circuit.
Thousands of young women's aspiring same way of life should provide a ready-made street, market version of the watch.
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well-designed public services can tackle some of society's most intractable problems

Since August, has Bichard director in a newly established a charity school of government to support the development of leadership skills of government. In view of this saved him from his place, in the design committee, where he made bold design requirements, he says can help social handle some its largest challenges, including crime and climate change. It will be very difficult, though, grasp how "design" made this a gap.A former local authority chief executive and Whitehall mandarin, Bichard is a long-standing proponent of innovation within the public sector, and set up an innovation unit when he was permanent secretary at the then Department for Employment. In 2001, he left the civil service to "do something different" and became rector of the London Institute, now the University of Arts. It was a career twist that provided him with new interests and new friends - including shoe designer Jimmy Choo. It also, he has said, made him a better listener, less quick to anger than in his government days.

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This academic, business, sports, and even military success, apparently rihanna behind we engaged in driven, here's a ruthless young woman completely is going to eat it, make it big, and the other in the 1980s Ridgeley Andrew coined cliches from talent honk! She comes from a successful family: her father has a series of sports shops, her mother is in Barbados's marketing manager, virgin Atlantic and her aunt is a popular Bajan singer. She may be obsessed with the little mermaid as a kid, but will not have the charts kept hitmaker this call with the X Factor - relation voice and "stunning" good looks. No, and in her blog 30 million hits, she would talk about the American and European continent before in early next year, she is training her eye on the world's top deadly focus and half a heat-seeking missile.

Shoppers' habits are already beginning to change

Not all the lovers are strong, but happiness. Charlene Belgrave, 28, a sales assistant Jimmy Choo been looking forward to the big apple retail therapy continuous match, but since she changed her pounds into dollars at the weekend she has toned down her wish list.
Pure sharply declining last week against the dollar will attract wealthy americans back to the city's stores and boutiques.
Shoppers' habit has begun to change, said Craig packer, marc jacobs in brand manager. British customers yesterday bought a using 485 coat, despite having a trip to America plan for a week's time, he explained. "She said 'really unlucky, this is probably won't have cheaper, now know that."
He added: "many women strong savvy buy us website, but if the dollar to maintain this, I think we will see them back to become a British stores for shopping to."

This is vulgar things, and the characters of their portfolios and Jimmy Choo

This is vulgar things, and the characters of their portfolios and Jimmy Choo, school overlooking, they decided to know their company's floor from the fort. The judge did not try and come retort, temporary injunction against her orders about this week, and taught her to stop co - authorship claims, remove the online extract.
"I had hoped to avoid a public revelation of my sister's well-known - and frequent - manipulations of the truth. Having said that, with my sister's filing ... this matter has evolved out of my control and into a public spectacle. The media's attention that my parents and I have now have had to endure has been endless."
Hedge Fund Wives is set in the glamorous world of financial services. Natasha claims that the novel draws on her "decade-long" Wall Street career and "insider's knowledge of the social workings of the hedge fund community".

Multiple choice

I want a classroom assistant every class. They make a great difference. Our two production Christmas play, for example, a support for all of the English teaching in 5 and 6 and a support all the math. It's like having two or more weapons and another brain, usually best children on their looks more like a big sisters or mom in the classroom, although they more, then very skilled. I often think classroom assistants would strengthen their teachings, but dilute 100%.
I also like every child has Christmas without fear, cold and hungry, because it should be a magical time, yet so easy it not.
I want to a complete limit any new ideas, goals and evaluation. And a pair of Jimmy Choo for arthritis feet!

Life and style

Movies, politics and sport also appears in mark in fashion this year, with the release of the "sex and the city" movie, Italian fashion first all-black problem, and the Olympic gold medal who finally got very own pair of Jimmy Choo
Last year's low (gwyneth of seven - a stilettos) and also fashionable heel - less boots).
Hats are a recurring theme, from fruit platter in haute couture shows in January, annual entertainment at ascot in June, not to mention to Sarah. Brown's violet blue beret in December.

Jimmy Choo, designer shoes company

It is the largest company in consumer debt burden to reduce their flowers its existence is the most dangerous. After all, this is a huge debt burden add needs to give a high rent two main causes of death Woolies.
Debt - market experts buy Debt troubled companies to take control of their future. They have largely spared the retail sector -- that can't yield no possibility of profits. Savviest businessman told the observer: "we see technical weakness conversion basic events. We think this opportunity, on companies with the first-class products and low leverage. Without so much for this class of retail in. We wouldn't touch with a barge pole retail. It's hard to know where it will be in a year's time. We are watching the telecommunications and cable companies. Food to a certain extent, but it is often crazy leveraged."
A trawl through debt market confidence small investors demonstrates how to recover some of the potential in Britain's biggest names. Debt fat face, surfing, ski - inspired clothing store outside, in last week against the dollar is 35p in the earth. Jimmy Choo, designer shoes company, has a its debts 28p only trade. One of the best enterprise bond market, the new image, house of Fraser and Debenhams transactions, are in 60p mark, has the strong display can't be good.