Lady Warsi was pelted with eggs when visiting Luton last November. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian A 23-year-old man found guilty of throwing eggs at a Tory peer was jailed for six weeks today. Lady Warsi, now co-chairman of the Conservative party, was visiting Luton last November when she was attacked. Gavin Reid, of [...]

Sir Richard Branson is in talks with private equity firms over sale of Virgin Active the health and fitness chain. Photograph: Peter Schneider/EPA Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Active is in early discussions with a handful of private equity groups over a possible £1bn sale of the health and fitness chain. The UK’s second-biggest gym operator, [...]

Muslim schoolgirls dress a dummy at the Faith and Fashion workshop. Photograph: Mark Tillie In a first floor classroom in the Hackney campus of the London School of Fashion a small group of young schoolgirls are wrapping clothes on to tailor’s dummies. They are using conventional clothes in unconventional ways – turning ties into belts [...]