At 12-feet wide, 23-feet long and 15 feet high, the buyer has the option of installing a lift to turn the space into a “duplex,” enabling them to park two vehicles at once.

The $1 million (£630,000) spot comes with its own deed and the buyer will have to pay maintenance fees when it goes on sale.

It is expected to be sold to a resident of the six-apartment luxury condominium which is being developed above it in a pre-war loft apartment building.

It includes an 8,000 square-foot penthouse with a 3,000 square-foot terrace, which will go on the market for just under $40 million (£25 million).

Parking spaces in garages below apartment buildings are highly prized in Manhattan, where on-street parking is hard to find and expensive.

Dolly Lenz of real estate agent Prudential Douglas Elliman stated of the million dollar space: “It’s for someone who wants complete privacy.

“You can drive in and not be seen again. It’s for the type of person who finds that attractive.

“It could be a celebrity or a business person who is camera shy.”

Dr Baxter, from Aston University, Birmingham, spent 18 months studying the speech pattern of employees at seven massive companies, including two in the FTSE 100.

Of the 600,0000 words used across 14 meetings, half of which were led by women and half by men, she found women used a distinct type of humour differently to men.

She said: “One type of humour women leaders do use more than men is self-deprecating humour.

“Women would rather laugh at themselves on the whole than laugh at others because it is the safe option.

“When they do, their humour can appear arch, contrived, defensive or occasionally, just mean.

“My research has shown that male managers use humour to demonstrate and display their leadership of a team.

“Their male subordinates will also use ‘display’ humour to impress a male boss, because it shows they are on the same wavelength. It is part of leadership ‘tribe’ behaviour which women find hard to join.”

Dr Baxter advised senior women to think about practising a “light, teasing banter” with colleagues to use at appropriate moments.

Starry Night, originally by Vincent van Gogh, is recreated by Kristen Cumings using jelly beansPicture: Kristen Cumings / Barcroft Media

It shows hundreds of construction workers demolish, then rebuilt the complex, the first to span the Thames.

Blackfriars Underground station, shut for almost three years, finally reopened in February after a spectacular redevelopment.

Closed in March 2009, it now has entrances both north and south of the River Thames. Able to accommodate up to 60 per cent more passengers a day, the station has new lifts and escalators and a new ticket hall.

The work has been part of the redevelopment of Blackfriars main line station which, in turn, is part of the Bedford to Brighton Thameslink rail project.

“He has been going around the country deliberately stirring up apathy”

William Whitelaw on Harold Wilson

“When they circumcised Herbert Samuel, they threw away the wrong bit”

David Lloyd George on the Liberal home secretary

“Tell him I can only deal with one sh– at a time”

Winston Churchill on being disturbed in his toilet by a call from the Lord Privy Seal

“His smile is like the silver fittings on a coffin”

Benjamin Disraeli on Robert Peel

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends”

“It is a typical triumph of modern science to find the only bit of Randolph which is not malignant, and remove it”

Evelyn Waugh, upon hearing that Randolph Churchill had been operated on for a benign tumour

“Her trouble is that she lacks the power of conversation, but not the power of speech”

“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts – for support rather than illumination”

“They have sent me a Flanders mare!”

King Henry VIII on Anne of Cleves

“A large fur ball on two overdeveloped legs”

Nancy Mitford on Princess Margaret

“He’s a world expert on leisure. He’s been practising it all his life”

Neil Kinnock on the Duke of Edinburgh

“Such an active lass. She adores nature in spite of what it did to her”

“After Braveheart, they stated he’d never make a true Scotsman, but look at him now – alcoholic and racist”

“Elizabeth Taylor’s so fat, she puts mayonnaise on her aspirins”

“A face to launch a thousand dredgers”

Jack de Manio on Glenda Jackson

“His acting is so bad, even his impersonation of a drunk is unconvincing”

Critic Harry Medved on Dean Martin

“Just because she’s dead doesn’t mean she’s gonna change”

“Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable, sodding rotters, the flaming sods, the snivelling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today. God, how I hate them”

DH Lawrence after having his manuscript of ‘Sons and Lovers’ rejected

“That’s not writing, it’s typing”

“Literary awards are like haemorrhoids. Sooner or later, every —-hole gets one”

“He chews more than he bites off”

“So boring, you fall asleep half-way through her name”

Alan Bennett on Arianna Stassinopoulos (now Huffington)

“I have tried to read Shakespeare, and I found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me”

“I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed”

Benedick in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’

“She hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults”

Speed in ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’

“In my experience, men are creatures with two legs and eight arms”

“I married beneath me. All women do”

“Biologically speaking, you are more likely to be attacked by the female of the species”

“In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily”

“Women should be obscene and not heard”

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult business, as it consists principally of dealing with men”

“The only time my wife and I had a simultaneous orgasm was when the judge signed the divorce papers”

“Indeed, madam, and you are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning”

Winston Churchill to Bessie Braddock

“I don’t think heading the ball has got anything to do with it. Footballers are stupid enough anyway”

A Football Association spokesman refuting a claim that heading the ball could cause brain damage

“Most people are using two-piece cues now, but Alex Higgins doesn’t have one because they don’t come with instructions”

“He can’t kick with his left foot, he can’t head, he can’t tackle, and he doesn’t score many goals. Apart from that, he’s all right”

“The only time he opens his mouth is to change feet”

Irish golfer David Feherty on Nick Faldo

“What problems do you have, apart from being blind, unemployed and a moron?”

John McEnroe to a Wimbledon spectator

Facebook-obsessed New York pedestrians who update their status while walking are encouraged to watch where they are going by the set of warning sings placed on street lamps across the American city.

One sign from the Metropolitan Etiquette Authority reads: ‘Pay Attention While Walking- Your Facebook Update can wait.’

However the notice did not appear to make much of a difference in one suburb of the Empire State, after a plethora of oblivious pedestrians were spotted walking straight past the sign.

While the notices look like they have been placed by local authorities, they are actually the brainchild of US street artist Jay Shells.

They form part of his social etiquette campaign aimed at ‘improving people’s lives.’

MORE: New Jersey town begins issuing $85 fines for texting

He launched his crusade in 2010, and has also produced signs telling people to pull their pants up and smokers not to flick their used cigarette butts on the ground.

‘The ‘pull up your pants’ one is not even etiquette so much as acknowledging the ridiculousness that it’s come to, over the last few years,’ he told the Village Voice.

‘It’s exaggerated to the point that it doesn’t even make sense, it’s just insane. You do not look tough with your ass hanging out! They’re all supposed to be tongue in cheek.

‘I put a couple in Times Square last night, in front of a ton of cops. They just looked at me like I was supposed to be doing it.

‘They’re all meant to improve life. Everybody seems to get a kick out it.’

Shells hopes to his posters will encourage pedestrians to watch where they are going, with 237 New Yorkers being killed as a result of road traffic accidents in 2010.

VIDEO: Jay Shells discusses the inspiration behind his road signs

The video begins with footage of Leveson quietly coming into the courtroom at the Royal Courts of Justice, with Rupert Murdoch in the witness box.

The judge sits down and states “forgive me a moment Mr Mudoch” before the high-octane soundtrack begins.

Clips of celebrity witnesses include Charlotte Church, Hugh Grant, Sienna Miller, Steve Coogan, JK Rowling and Max Mosley.

Miller’s voice is synthesised to make it seem that she is plaintively singing: “For a number of years, I was relentlessly pursued by about ten to fifteen men”.

Later, former tabloid editor Kelvin Mackenzie appears to voice a repeated paean to “The Sun”. Rupert Murdoch and his son James also feature, as well as Andy Coulson, Alastair Campbell, Piers Morgan and a smiling Ian Hislop.

The video closes when the music stops and Leveson tells an attendee at the inquiry: “Please sit down or leave.” More than 10,000 people have indicated on Facebook that they “like” it.

When he is on his own, he takes on a machine that fires tennis balls at him at high velocity, which he has nicknamed “the Clegger” following his closely-fought victory against the Deputy Prime Minister.

The book, titled Cameron: Practically a Conservative, suggests his capacity to unwind is crucial to his capability to cope with the strains of the job.

The book is written by Francis Elliott of The Times and James Hanning of The Independent on Sunday.

In extracts published on Saturday, in Mr Elliot’s newspaper, the books claims the Prime Minister’s Sunday routine generally starts early in he morning with the newspapers and time working on his computer.

Friends quoted in the book state that throughout the day it can then involve “a c— film on telly, play with the children, cook, have three or four glasses of wine with lunch, have an afternoon nap, play tennis”.

The book also discloses how Steve Hilton the outgoing Number 10 director of implementation, left Downing Street this week believing Mr Cameron had become too focused on power rather than forcing through radical change.

Despite their 20-year friendship, the book is stated to chart a loss of faith between Mr Cameron and his policy guru, who left Downing Street this week for a post at a Californian university.

The book also discloses how Mr Cameron to be a frequent visitor to political betting websites, in order to keep tabs on the latest polling methodology while he is also known for his intense “dislike of people clicking pens and checking phones during meetings”.

With Britain in recession and the Conservatives slipping in the polls, the Prime Minister’s leisure habits have increasingly been used as political ammunition against him by both Conservative and Labour opponents as a sign of a lack of application.

Mr Cameron, 45, has been dubbed “DVD Dave” for his love of box sets and mocked for enjoying weekly “date nights” with his wife, Samantha, 41.

But friends state Mr Cameron’s enthusiasm for pursuits other than work is a healthy sign of an appetite for life.

On Friday night, a Downing Street spokesman said: “This weekend the Prime Minister will be working at the G8 and Nato summits in Washington and Chicago, before returning to a full week’s work in the UK.

“He thinks about the job of Prime Minister, with its requirements to be on duty seven days a week, to be an enormous privilege.”

Episode 7,867: Mitt Romney’s look-a-like, Dr Harvard Win, the chief surgeon at Comodidaddel Hospital, has been told he needs a brain operation after a series of fainting spells of increasing severity and dangerousness (he was recently saved by Nurse Horesa just moments before he was about to fall head first into an open heart surgery he was leading on one of the more important investors in the hospital.)

But, in spite of the alarming increase in the number and severity of fainting spells, Dr Win is determined to continue in his usual ‘as usual’ way…

Importantly, Dr Win is determined to address a convention he is due to host despite falling to the ground, unconscious, only the day before the convention is due to start.

But things then begin to get even worse: in Monday’s episode teetotal Dr Win’s speech starts to slur as if he was drunk.

Determined to continue even though he sounds drunk and keeps collapsing all of a sudden, Dr Win consults his medicine cabinet and finds a solution that he believes can get him over the critical convention period in his ‘no fuss and nonsense’ kind of way, content in the knowledge that a life saving operation can be carried out by a world leading, Nobel award winning, surgeon on his way right now…

But, unbeknownst to Dr Win, Dr Miguel De Cassaterra, the world renowned brain surgeon, who has concurred to perform the life saving operation, has been detained after a local drug lord planted drugs in his car. The race is on to free Dr Cassaterra, who is the only person who can save Dr Win in time…

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