The ''Sunday Times'' Rich List 2008 was published on 27 April 2008. Since 1989 the UK national Sunday

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Sunday Times Rich List The ''Sunday Times Rich List'' is a list of the 1,000 wealthiest people or families resident in the United Kingdom ranked by net wealth. The list is updated annually in April and published as a magazine supplement by British national Sunday news ...

''. The list is based on an estimate of the minimum wealth of the richest 1,000 people or families in the

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as of January of that year, and is compiled by Dr Philip Beresford. A separate section lists the 250 richest Irish, including both

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and the

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. The list was previewed on

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on 24 April 2008 in ''Britain's Rich List: Giving It Away'', presented by millionaire

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. As in previous years, the List was widely covered in other UK media on the day of its publication; ''The Daily Telegraph'', for example, noted that "Kirsty Bertarelli, a former Miss United Kingdom from Staffordshire, is the highest placed woman, appearing at number six on the list alongside her husband, the biotechnology tycoon Ernesto Bertarelli."Daily Telegraph
/ref> The top four places in the List were unchanged from the previous year. Only six of the top 20 were born in Britain. Among the most notable changes were three new names on the List entering in the top 12: Alisher Usmanov, Leonard Blavatnik, both Russian entrepreneurs with homes in London, and Ernesto Bertarelli.

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