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George Osborne is making the most of his free time while the Prime Minister is out of the country. i hear that while David Cameron was busy visiting Jamaica and meeting the iranian president to discuss Syria, avid theatre-goer George enjoyed an evening performance of Hamlet, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, at the Barbican on Monday. Also in attendance was actor Andy Serkis, who appears in the new Star Wars film — no doubt much to the delight of selfconfessed fan George.

KNOWN for his TV adventures, Ben Fogle is hoping to use his fourlegged friends to enter the Guinness World Records next week.

The broadcaster is organising a labrador ‘flash mob’ in London’s Holland Park on Monday. ‘We want to get as many people and their labradors as possible in one place at one time,’ he tells me.

Ben’s black labrador, Inca, died three years ago and he now has a puppy, Storm. ‘Labradors are very sociable animals,’ says Fogle.

‘I think they will have the most fantastic labrador party ever.’