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Lovenest to your satisfaction, Mick?

When he received a £1.5million hotel bill, the normally parsimonious Mick Jagger finally decided it was time for action. The Rolling Stone has been living at Claridge's in Mayfair for two years since his ex-wife Jerry Hall told him he could no longer live in the flat he owns next door to their marital home in Richmond, South-West London.

He was spotted house-hunting in Barnes, West London, with his leggy American girlfriend L'Wren Scott. And they were particularly interested in this £6.5million home with views of the Thames.

The double-fronted property is substantially bigger than the Claridge's apartment they have become accustomed to. It has seven bedrooms, five reception rooms, a roof terrace, a large garden and six bathrooms.

It also features a glass-walled swimming pool with a weir-style overflow, a cinema, wine cellar and gym. Crucially for Jagger, he will be able to enter the house without being seen because the garage has access to the main house through a study room.

The 62-year-old singer has been dating Miss Scott, a 38-year-old model and stylist, for three-and-a-half-years. Some have nicknamed her The Loin Tamer because she appears to have put a stop to his philandering ways.

Now it appears he wants to put down roots with her by buying a home.

The house they viewed is a few miles from the house where 48-year-old Miss Hall has been living with their four children Elizabeth, 21, James, 19, Georgia, 13, and seven-year-old Gabrielle since their acrimonious split six years ago.

Their marriage fell apart following the revelation that Jagger had made Brazilian model Luciana Morad pregnant.

After the split, in August 1999, Jagger moved out - but only as far as the flat next door. And he was coming and going so frequently that he had an adjoining wall knocked through.

Miss Hall ended that arrangement in August 2003 when she learned Jagger had been taking Miss Scott back to the flat while she was in the stage production of The Graduate in San Francisco.

Since then, when Jagger and the Stones have not been on tour, he and Miss Scott have lived in a 3,500-pounds-a-night penthouse apartment at Claridge's.

Jagger had hoped to iron things out with Miss Hall and move back into the flat next door on Richmond Hill with Miss Scott. To that end, he was granted planning permission to have that flat - and another he bought below it - knocked into one.

But it is becoming increasingly clear that Miss Hall is standing her ground on that point, hence Jagger and Miss Scott's house-hunting trip.

But whether the singer will be able to snap up the Barnes property remains to be seen - as Jagger knows, you can't always get what you want.