Leyton Orient have parted company with their manager, Fabio Liverani, following the club's relegation to League Two.
By 6pm, the grey clouds that had hovered over London for more than an hour parted to disclose a patch of hazy blue sky above Hyde Park and the air filled with the popping of corks and the smell of not-so-cheap burgers.
He had his glass refilled by a pierced girl with ruffles of hair parted low on the side, and started up the stairs.
He has blond choirboy hair, his body is pale and vulnerable and, on his beautiful face, innocence dances with filth across wide eyes and stung, parted lips.
Anything that was highly secretive or precious, we would put in her handbag because we knew she was never parted from it.
Dame Judi Dench, who was M in the Bond movies, must be a cert for Philomena, the British road movie written by and co-starring Steve Coogan, for which Harvey Weinstein parted with $6m after seeing just a seven-minute showreel at Cannes, clearly scenting a movie that will swell his Oscar cabinet.
He is reported not to have spoken to the Genoa owner, Enrico Preziosi, since their somewhat acrimonious split, but both parties have seen their fortunes take a turn for the worse since they parted ways.
Not since 1994 – when Footscray parted ways with Terry Wheeler – has a club sacked a coach so early in the season.
He's parted ways with his long-time trainer Freddie Roach in favour of Virgil Hunter, who has reined in the offensive recklessness and added a new dimension of tactical maturity.
"A boring National Theatre production of She Stoops to Conquer seen through drooping eyelids (why revive that creaky old thing at all?) and a snatched one-hour visit to the Lucian Freud exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (enough time to sicken of the acres of belly and parted groins) on the way to the Eurostar.
In July last year, he parted company with the Daily Mail after spending barely a year there as a columnist.
