Tragic ending … this year’s Love Parade ended in the deaths of 19 people. Photograph: Hermann J Knippertz/AP The deaths of 19 people in a crowd panic at Love Parade in Duisburg on the weekend was truly, nightmarishly awful. But what is really incredible is that it took uniquely... 

Marc Bolland, new Chief Executive of Marks and Spencer, has a starting package that could generate £15m. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images Shareholders large and small are expected to deliver a bloody nose this week to four FTSE 100 companies — Marks & Spencer, Burberry, British... 

“Not in torment” . . . Jonathan Ross. Photograph: Brian J. Ritchie/Hotsauce / Rex Towards the end of his nearly 11-year Radio 2 hegemony on Saturday, Jonathan Ross played Creep by Radiohead. You can’t help but note the words. Thom Yorke has such nice diction. “I’m... 

Miley Cyrus is yet to speak up about the harsh statement issued by her fellow teen star Taylor Momsen. But, a source told Heat magazine that Miley is indeed furious with the “Gossip Girl” actress for calling Disney stars “bubblegum sh**.” “Miley is furious –... 

Ingrid Oliver, one of the ladies in The Castle. Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Observer The Castle is on its third series (Radio 4); I don’t know how I managed to miss the first two, since you can tell within four or five seconds that it will, at some point, be funny (maybe not right...