A Laura Ashley boss and his ex-wife who are fighting over tens of millions in a divorce court disagree about the way they lived their lives, a judge has heard.

A Laura Ashley boss and a former beauty queen who have been fighting over money for more than two years following the breakdown of their 43-year marriage should declare an "armistice", a High Court judge has said.

A former beauty queen will have to get by on £45,000 (€60,000) a month following a divorce ruling in London.

The estranged wife of a multi-millionaire Laura Ashley boss told a judge how she owned 1,000 pairs of shoes.

Police fired tear gas canisters today at several thousand demonstrators trying to bar politicians from Thailand’s Parliament, injuring scores of them and heating up a political crisis that has gripped the country for six weeks.