Perfect little pre-dinner canap? If you’re splashing out use Sevruga or Beluga or the less expensive but hard to find orange-coloured Keta (salmon caviare). Since it was invented by a French chef in New York in 1917, everyone has developed their own version of this classic chilled soup. A doctor who prescribed barbiturates to the Shah of Iran’s youngest daughter in the months before she died of an overdose admitted disciplinary charges yesterday which could see him struck off the medical register. One mistake is too many for me.”The unmarried princess, who was the Shah’s fifth child, was born into a life of opulence and privilege in Tehran in 1970. She escaped from Iran with her family during the 1979 revolution and later led a “jetset” lifestyle travelling between homes in New York, Paris and London.But she suffered from mood swings, anorexia and bulimia. She had spent time at the Priory Clinic in Roehampton and had consulted specialists in Britain and America.

At night, she claimed to have taken 40 tablets of the sedative Rohypnol to help her sleep and during the day she took up to 30 different tranquillisers.A friend found her body on June 10 at the Leonard Hotel in Marble Arch. She died of quinal barbitone poisoning.The GMC hearing, to decide whether Dr Iqbal is guilty of serious professional misconduct, continues.. One of Scotland’s leading transplant surgeons, who claimed he was a victim of racial discrimination, has had a job offer from a top American university withdrawn. Glasgow University denies racism and a spokesman said yesterday that it regarded the matter as still active and could not comment further.Mr Jindal had hinted earlier this week that he would abandon his complaint after it emerged he had been offered a job by the University of South Alabama, which he was expected to take up this August.But on Thursday it emerged that the Alabama authorities had withdrawn the offer, after discovering he had failed to disclose his legal claims against Glasgow University or allegations made against him by previous employers in Indiana.”He was not straight with us,” said Richard Teplick, chief of medical staff at the American university’s College of Medicine. The offer was withdrawn after the Mobile Register newspaper in Alabama raised questions about the doctor’s past.Yesterday, Mr Jindal said he still intended to move to the US this autumn. There are fears his departure could lead to the collapse of the Western Infirmary’s kidney transplant unit, where he was instrumental in encouraging more Asians to be organ donors.. Unmodernised properties may appear to be the best way of buying cheaply, but demand and building costs are eating into a saving that used to be taken for granted.

Most of these homes are sold at auction where competition is pushing prices above guidelines, and estate agents are finding them as much in short supply as anything else. Moneynetmortgagesearches Unmodernised properties may appear to be the best way of buying cheaply, but demand and building costs are eating into a saving that used to be taken for granted. “This means the builders are having a field day because the demand for their skills is pushing up their prices.”The attraction of buying a place not in pristine condition means money is not being spent on someone else’s taste. “Now, for instance, people increasingly want hi-tech homes with air conditioning. If they are buying a place to live in for a few years they are happy to pay 10 to 15 per cent above market price then for the work on top of that.”Whatever the scale of the job, from restoration of an historic home to modest improvements of a more cosmetic kind, underestimating the project causes the biggest headache.