LILY Allen doesn’t plan to return to music for five years

LILY Allen doesn’t plan to return to music for five years.The Not Fair singer is getting ready to take a planned hiatus and insists it will be a long time before she releases another album.“I’m not making another album for a bit,” she said. “Maybe in five years.”The 24-year-old pop star has decided to step away from the music business because she doesn’t want to go on tour because she is considering starting a family.“It’s a really big commitment to do an album these days,” she said. “People don’t buy music anymore, they download it and want their content for free — the thing that makes you your money is touring and I don’t really want to tie myself down to being on the road for three years. I’ve got a boyfriend and I’ve got a house and I’d quite like to have children soon. So it doesn’t really work into those plans.“It’s not retiring. I’m just doing a different job for a bit. I’m having a career change. I just want to stay in London for a while. It’s not a particularly healthy lifestyle being on the road.”

Lily who is dating builder Sam Cooper has also revealed she intends to start her own charity as well as the record company and fashion label she has planned.“I’m setting up a record label and a music charity and website and I’m also doing a vintage clothes shop with my sister, it’s amazing stuff that would be really expensive but we’re renting it out for a fraction of the price, so girls can come and get dressed up for a night out and have a laugh!” she said.Lily announced at the end of last year she was taking a break from the music business.“I’m just going to concentrate on doing some behind the scenes sort of stuff,” she said at the time. “My last concert is in March. That’s the last thing I’ve got planned.”

MISCHA Barton is hoping her new hair style will help her get her career back on track

MISCHA Barton is hoping her new hair style (not the one in the picture) will help her get her career back on track.The former O.C. star has gone blonde and is now telling pals her luscious locks will aide her sensational comeback from her troubles with drink and drugs.“Mischa is starting over and her new look is part of that,” reveals a source close to the star. “She is in talks over a number of acting projects including one major movie.

“She’s convinced being blonde is the key to changing her fortunes because not only does she feel more positive but she’s found people to be more positive towards her — guys especially!”Following the cancellation of Mischa’s show The Beautiful Life, her friends spoke out about the star’s fears over her career.“She has been insecure about where her career was going and feels she may be a has-been at 23. She hasn’t been overwhelmed with offers since The O.C. went off the air,” a source said in October.“She needs to feel she’s still employable. Right now, that’s her deepest fear. That no one will hire her again. It’s not true, but that’s how insecure she can get sometimes.”

Harry Potter's Invisibility Suit for Real

Although the cloaks may sound like something from Harry Potter, researchers in London were today given the go-ahead for a £4.9 million project to create a real invisibility suit. In JK Rowling’s stories, the young wizard uses his cloak to move around his school unseen.

Today, researchers at Imperial College said such a garment could soon become a reality. They hope to create a cloak from a new material that can manipulate light.

Normally, when light hits an object, it bounces off the surface and into the eye, making the object visible. The invisibility cloak made from ‘meta-material’ would work by ‘grabbing hold’ of light waves and making them flow smoothly around an object, in the same way that water in a river flows round a stick.

Putting the cloak on would render the wearer invisible to the human eye. The team at Imperial College say the meta-material could have a range of other applications, including creating super-sensitive microscopes and airport security sensors that can spot tiny amounts of chemicals.

However, they admit the Harry Potter cloak is likely to generate the most interest.  Sir John Pendry, who is leading the project, which is being funded by the Leverhulme Trust and will be carried out with the University of Southampton, said: ‘We’ve shown that an optical invisibility cloak is theoretically possible  –  the big challenge now is to build it.’