Troubled euro marks 10th birthday

Europe's single currency marks its 10th anniversary this weekend under increasing market pressure and with its future in serious doubt.


Faster bank payments to be launched

Faster internet and phone banking payments will become standard from Sunday, enabling people to pay their tax and credit card bills on a "same day" basis for the first time.


Man remanded over babysitter death

An 18-year-old man has been remanded in custody charged with the murder of a teenage babysitter.


CBE for Helena after Oscar letdown

Helena Bonham Carter said she decided to accept her CBE in "honour" of her late father who spent the last years of his life severely disabled after a routine operation went wrong.


TV host Kelly thrilled to get OBE

Lorraine Kelly said she was "thrilled" to be recognised in the New Year Honours list.


Ronnie Corbett receives big honour

Ronnie Corbett has received a CBE for services to entertainment and charity in the New Year Honours.


TV guru Baz delighted at knighthood

TV executive Peter Bazalgette, who brought Big Brother to the UK and devised a string of much-copied lifestyle and reality shows, has called his knighthood in the New Year Honours List a "delightful compliment".


Actor Harewood ‘astonished’ by MBE

David Harewood admitted to being "astonished" after he was awarded the MBE in the New Year Honours.


New EastEnders theme marks Pat exit

EastEnders stalwart Pat Evans will bow out from the soap after a quarter of a century tomorrow with a specially-created arrangement of the show's theme.


Renner ‘dazed’ by Cruise role offer

Jeremy Renner has revealed how he was in a bit of a daze when he was first told he was wanted for the latest Mission: Impossible movie.

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