Article: Cherie's worst nightmare comes true; The Blairs have long lived in fear of Carole Caplin's memoirs. Now the devastating secrets that could destroy them are set to be published - not by their former lifestyle guru...but by her MOTHER.

Byline: GORDON RAYNER

AS Tony Blair nervously awaits the outcome of the cash-for-honours investigation, a far more damaging crisis is quietly taking shape in the unlikely surroundings of a pensioner's parlour in Surrey.

For the past six months, Sylvia Caplin, mother of the Blairs' onetime lifestyle guru Carole, has been dictating her memoirs to a ghost writer.

And while Carole Caplin signed a confidentiality agreement which prevents her from revealing her secrets of life with the Blairs, her mother, ominously, did not.

Although 72-year-old Sylvia attracted rather less publicity than her glamorous daughter, she was just as close to the ...

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