Richard Parker appeared to be all smiles with party members and supporters in Birmingham, where the result was set to be formally announced.

In the glossy magazine world they inhabit, aristocratic model Lady Lola Crichton-Stuart and her Dutch boyfriend Parker Van Noord look the ideal couple – glamorous, rich and oh so very beautiful.

Jeff Lynne announced his ‘dear friend’ and longtime ELO bandmate had passed away in a Facebook post on Wednesday evening.

Keen social media detectives think that the notorious Hawley Arms in north London – which was at the centre of a celebrity campaign after it got burned down in a fire – is the real life haunt.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Prince Harry’s wife announced in February that she had signed a deal with Lemonada Media, a female-founded company that wants to ‘make life suck less’.

For Peter Phillips, the news that he has split from his long-term girlfriend Lindsay Wallace, pictured left, confirms his burden of knowing that of all Queen Elizabeth’s grandchildren, he is the unluckiest in love.

Ange is up to her oxters in scandal over her housing arrangements, amid evidence she avoided paying Capital Gains Tax and lied about her address in direct contravention of electoral law.

Christine Quinn has filed for a temporary restraining order against ‘controlling’ husband Christian Richard as she claimed in new legal documents his arrest followed a two day ‘rampage’.

The 54-year-old former Top Gear presenter almost died filming a stunt in a Vampire jet car at York’s Elvington airfield in 2006.

RICHARD EDEN: The Earl of Balfour, who watched in disgust as a portrait of his great-great uncle, the former prime minister Arthur Balfour, was repeatedly slashed and sprayed with paint.