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Safe as houses: the KGB-proof mansion - Oligarch builds Surrey fortress May 6, 2007 by Mark Hollingsworth and Jack Grimston FOR an oligarch nervous about the future, it is the ideal bolthole. A Russian billionaire is spending tens of millions of pounds building a high-security “KGB-proof” mansion in Surrey. Peter Aven, head of the biggest private bank in Russia, is said by locals to have surrounded his 8.5acre property on the Wentworth estate near Virginia Water with “intelligent” electronic fencing and incorporated a bombproof shelter in the design. It also has a two-storey hexagonal guardhouse by the main entrance. The...

The Irish singing star Enya is recovering after a narrow escape from an intruder at her supposedly secure castle near Dublin. The entertainer locked herself in a panic room and activated a panic button after discovering that a man had made his way through the castle's defenses. The intruder, who tied up a maid during the two hour incident, made his escape before police arrived.

My "You've got mail" sign next to the my comments box has been lit up for two days straight! But I've had no mail! Sure it makes me feel good as if I've gotten mail, but I haven't. Consequently I just have to keep checking it because otherwise I would never know if I got freepmailed! Is anyone else having this problem?

Arafat in "PANIC ROOM"