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/ 12 November 2003
From the Indian bride to the Italian wife with an expensive designer necklace, through to the British teenager who buys her first nine-carat hoops from H Samuel, women are the main buyers of gold jewellery. And as 80% of gold produced each year is turned into jewellery, it quickly becomes clear why the World Gold Council and its members are so keenly targeting women.
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/ 15 January 2003
The mother-in-law — scapegoat of the old-school male comedian and the butt of many a best man’s joke in wedding speeches. It always got a laugh — ”Take my mother-in-law. Take her!!!” — but faded away as the times grew more politically correct.