Property: Van Not Included

Other 'Hot homes with star connections' for sale and featured in the Independent's Homes And Property section are Michelangelo's Tuscan estate, 'Grimmy's X Factor House' and Gok Wan's old house - 'near Hampstead Heath'.

Alan Hollinghurst: On Hampstead Heath

Even in winter Hampstead Heath never loses its magic, though it is not as dreamlike and confounding as it is in the high summer. It is a wooded landscape that is never flat and never square, and you lose your bearings in it, taking years to learn exactly how its dips and meanders fit together. Often on summer evenings people stop and ask me the way – they are miles from where they thought they were, and going in completely the wrong direction...

Alan Hollinghurst rhapsodises over the delights to be found on Hampstead Heath 'pon a Summer's evening, for FT Weekend.

Michael Cashman Watch: And Tomorrow The World!

You know we have made extraordinary progress on Lesbian and Gay rights over the last twenty years. If I think about the transformation that I have seen growing up into adulthood, the biggest transformation.

We’ve made such progress on equality. But we have to face the fact that internationally things are, if anything, going backwards. We can’t just let that happen. We can’t just say “well, that’s OK”. The next Labour government will fight to make sure that we fight for our values and for human rights all round the world.

So today I can announce that I am appointing Michael Cashman, Lord Cashman, as our envoy on LGBT rights all round the world...

From Ed Miliband's speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday.

Good grief, I wouldn't even trust Lord Cashman of Brown-nose to be LGBT envoy to Walford Square.

Sorry about this world.

PS There's a programme on BCC Radio 4 Extra on Friday, Pioneers, where Mr Cashman recalls the 1987, Eastenders gay kiss fiasco.

TV Caption Of The Week: "Gareth"

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'A stroll on Hampstead Heath appears to have inspired Ed Miliband’s conference speech as he quoted from chance conversations in the park with software worker Gareth, chef Xiomara and two students who wished he was the actor Benedict Cumberbatch...'

The Guardian.