Dromina House is set in Woodstown, linked in the past Jackie Kennedy and John Profumo. Tommy Barker says spacious home is in good decorative order.

THIS time it’s not the White House that’s embroiled in a sexual scandal, it’s the Elysée Palace. Location apart, there’s nothing to beat a full-dress political scandal except, that is, a full-undress one.

AN illicit love affair is so quintessentially French that revelations of President François Hollande’s clandestine meetings with Julie Gayet have been greeted by the French with a shrug.

Fifty years ago, Christine Keeler and John Profumo brought down a government and changed a nation forever. Clive Irving on the scandal that rocked Britain

The Tate Modern proved the perfect venue for Peter Pilotto’s painterly autumn/ winter collection.

THE YEAR 1963 was a momentous one.

THE announcement that the News of the World will close after this weekend was greeted with shock and amazement by journalists at News International.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday described John Profumo, who has died aged 91, as "a politician with a glittering career who made a serious mistake, but then underwent a journey of redemption".

JOHN PROFUMO, centre of the most sensational sex and security scandal of the 20th century, did penance for parliamentary dishonour with more than 30 years of charity work among the poor in London.

John Profumo has died at the age of 91 after suffering a stroke.

WHEN Eamon de Valera founded a new party in 1926 its official name was Fianna Fáil: The Republican Party.

HE is the man who has been labelled the India-rubber-ball of British public life because of his unerring ability to bounce back from personal disasters which would have crippled and possibly destroyed most people.

Christine Keeler, the woman at the centre of the Profumo scandal, claims she was made pregnant by the then Secretary of State for War.