Amusing, bemusing or just plain annoying, there's no end of gummed-up geography when rookies write about L.A. This week, a Brit gossip rag has relocated Beverly Hills to the beach.

Jennifer Aniston has bought a new six-bedroom home minutes away from ex-Friends co-star Courteney Cox.

The actress has reportedly spent $8.1 million on the beachfront property in Beverly Hills which is yards down the coast from the home of close friend Cox.

She is leaving a rented, two-bedroom home in Malibu which she used to share with former fiance Brad Pitt.

A year and a half after their split she is moving on into the larger, exclusive property which comes with half an acre of private grounds.

The 1970s home is being altered to her own design, according to the Daily Mail.