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Charity in bus victim's name helps children to walk again

22.09.11
MP's wife tells how her mother, who was knocked down and killed by a bus in west London, would have been 'delighted' by the charity set up in her memory ... more

Jonathan Ross denies the BBC paid him too much

01.09.11
Jonathan Ross has claimed he was worth the near-£6 million he earned each year from the BBC - and said he had turned down millions more from rivals... more

Denise Van Outen and Johnny Vaughan are not speaking

07.04.11
Actress Denise Van Outen has disclosed she and her former co-host Johnny Vaughan - one of TV's best-loved duos - are no longer on speaking terms... more

The Comic Relief celebrity kazoo orchestra

10.03.11
Nick Curtis describes his part in the world's biggest celebrity kazoo orchestra for Comic Relief... more

Karl Pilkington back on his travels

02.02.11
Ricky Gervais' much-mocked sidekick Karl Pilkington is returning to televison to do "stuff a lot of people want to do before they die"... more

Chris Evans tells 'too old' Chris Moyles to quit Radio 1

15.10.10
Chris Evans said breakfast rival Chris Moyles should leave his Radio 1 show - and claimed he had 'lost perspective'... more

Now taxman wants to take your money before you can even bank it

17.09.10
HM Revenue & Customs risked fresh public anger today with a 'radical' plan to deduct tax directly from workers' pay packets... more

Fearne Cotton, Miley Cyrus and Jonathan Ross create wave of excitement

23.06.10
Celebrities including Dizzee Rascal, Justin Lee Collins, LL Cool J, Miley Cyrus and Fearne Cotton have joined forces for a giant Mexican wave.... more

Konnie Huq and Charlie Brooker to get married

09.06.10
TV presenter Konnie Huq has become engaged to Screenwipe host and writer Charlie Brooker.... more

'Bigot' widow's relatives condemn Gordon Brown over comments

29.04.10
Gillian Duffy's relatives condemned Gordon Brown's comments as the woman herself waits to publicly respond to the PM's personal apology... more

Blaze-hit Shoreditch club may not be rebuilt, says devastated owner

12.03.10
The nightclub and members’ bar ravaged by fire in Shoreditch may not be rebuilt, its owner said... more

Incompetent civil servants profit from job-for-life culture

15.09.09
Bungling senior civil servants are escaping the sack because of the job-for-life culture in Whitehall, MPs warn... more

Inconvenient truth about Cameron's 'green' Tories

14.05.09
It has become David Cameron's inconvenient truth: his party does not agree with him on wind farms... more

Harman and Beckett refuse to back Martin

04.12.08
Support for Speaker Michael Martin drained away as two senior ministers refused to express confidence in him... more

Brown puts his 'full confidence' in Martin

04.12.08
Gordon Brown propped up Speaker Michael Martin today by saying he had "full confidence" in him.... more

Mandelson blasts Conservative links to mole

03.12.08
Lord Mandelson raised the stakes in the row over the Home Office mole with a ferocious attack on the leaker and his Conservative handlers... more

Apologise for police raid on MP 'or you're toast', Speaker told

03.12.08
Commons Speaker Michael Martin has been warned "say sorry or you're toast" over his failure to stop police raiding a senior MP's office... more

What happened when I asked to do 'adult' TV... Konnie Huq on the perils of leaving Blue Peter

07.08.08
In a candid interview, presenter Konnie Huq spills secrets about life after Blue Peter... which included flirting with Tony Blair and being asked to do 'adult TV'.... more

'I've finally shed my fat suit,' says Katy Hill after dropping more than four stone

07.07.08
More than two years after giving birth to her first child, former Blue Peter presenter Katy Hill has finally shed her baby weight - and she couldn't be happier.... more

Singing along to Take That nearly cost me my voice, says radio presenter Richard Bacon

28.06.08
When Radio 5 Live's Richard Bacon struggled to speak on air, doctors told him he had a career-threatening vocal cord polyp.... more

Computer failure puts cancer sufferers at risk

27.06.08
Suspected cancer patients at top London hospitals have missed critical appointments after their records were lost by a new multi-billion-pound computer system... more

MPs set to condemn spiralling budget for 2012 Olympic Games

16.04.08
MPs are preparing to issue a scathing condemnation of the soaring cost of the 2012 Olympics... more


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