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U2 Star's Former Aid Guilty Of £2.2 Million Theft

PA | Posted 29.06.2012 | UK Entertainment

U2 star Adam Clayton's former personal assistant has been found guilty of embezzling 2.8 million euro (£2.2 million) from him to fund a lavish lifest...

SuBo To Get Doctorate

PA | Posted 28.06.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Susan Boyle is to be given an honorary doctorate for her contribution to the creative industries. She will be honoured by Edinburgh's Queen Margare...

Review - The Amazing Spider-Man

Jack Pelling | Posted 27.08.2012 | UK Entertainment
Jack Pelling

Whether or not it is too soon to reboot to the Spider-man series just five years after Sam Raimi went out with a whimper in the wake of 2007's wearily disappointing Spider-Man 3, box office allure and fans' desire to see a post-Nolan web slinger have resulted in an early return for Marvel's most famous franchise.

'I'd Rather Take A Pill And End Things' Says BBC's Simpson

PA | Posted 26.06.2012 | UK

BBC journalist John Simpson has said he would rather commit suicide than "live in misery" in old age. The 67-year-old, who moved in with a pensione...

BBC Proms 2012: Picks: Skelton and Müller-Schott

Paul Guest | Posted 25.08.2012 | UK Entertainment
Paul Guest

The BBC Proms are around the corner and so here are a few more picks from the ones you'll get to hear during this year's Proms season.

Rise In Drug Use? Blame It On The Beatles

The Telegraph | Posted 25.06.2012 | UK

The Beatles were responsible for a worldwide increase in recreational drug use which continues to harm young people, Russia's top anti-narcotics offic...

Pharmacists In Greece 'Running Out Of Medicine' Amid Crisis

The Huffington Post UK | Ted Thornhill | Posted 25.06.2012 | UK

The economy in Greece is in such dire straits that pharmacists there are running out of medicine, a Panorama investigation has revealed. In the BBC...

Cherie Blair Herds Goats Over London Bridge

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 24.06.2012 | UK

Cherie Blair and Cilla Black turned shepherd for an afternoon and herded goats across London bridge in a stunt to raise awareness for International Wi...

IOW Fest: Apologies For Chaos

PA | Posted 25.06.2012 | UK Entertainment

The promoter of the Isle of Wight Festival has apologised for the chaos caused by heavy rains at the start of the event and promised that lessons woul...

Dangerous Moments of Child Swinging Glee at the World's Largest Hokey Cokey

Janis Curry | Posted 24.08.2012 | UK Entertainment
Janis Curry

There really is nothing like a good Hokey Cokey. I get my Hokey Cokey fix at a children's music morning run by the unbelievably talented Jeremy Mendonca of Americana duet The Hallelujah Trails, known as The Music Man by his North London mummy groupies.

Tulisa's Twitter Rant Loses Followers

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 24.06.2012 | Home

"Forgive me for what I have done, 'cause I'm young, I'm young." Well, from the looks of things, it doesn't seem like Tulisa has been showing much remo...

Less Of The Heavy Story Lines, Please

PA | Posted 24.06.2012 | UK Entertainment

Soap fans say they want to see more humour, rather than grim storylines, in their favourite shows. Four-fifths of viewers believe there should be m...

Carr's Tax Avoidance Saga Continues

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 23.06.2012 | UK

Comedian Jimmy Carr faces a long road back to normality as his tax avoidance scandal carried on after he was heckled at a gig and his father accused h...

Festivalgoers Brave Mudbath At Isle Of Wight

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 23.06.2012 | UK

Extra police are to be deployed to help revellers leave at the end of the Isle of Wight Festival after heavy rains turned the site into a mudbath caus...

Isle Of Wight Festival Hit By Mudbath

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 22.06.2012 | UK Entertainment

Hundreds of revellers have been forced to sleep in their cars after traffic became gridlocked when the Isle of Wight Festival site turned into a mudba...

Don't Put it Away, Madge! It's Time We Got Over Our Horror at Madonna's Refusal to Act Her Age

The Guyliner | Posted 21.08.2012 | Home
The Guyliner

But now Her Madgesty has displeased her once-devoted flock. But what could it be? The slow degeneration of her music material? The ever-increasing cost of tickets to see her perform live? Well, perhaps, but Madonna's crime seems to be the one that most of us commit eventually, if we're lucky - she got old.

WATCH: Bill Murray's Baseball Hall Of Fame Speech

The Huffington Post UK | Samuel Luckhurst | Posted 21.06.2012 | UK Sport

Bill Murray was up to more baseball antics this week after he was inducted into the Sally League's Hall of Fame. Co-owner of Charleston RiverDogs' ...

WATCH: A Semi-Naked Mischa Barton Chases Noel Gallagher

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 20.06.2012 | UK Entertainment

Mischa Barton has (nearly) bared all for Noel Gallagher's Everybody's On The Run music video. Poor Mischa. One minute The OC star is minding her ow...

Myleene's Ex Denies 'X Factor' Relationship

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 20.06.2012 | Home

Myleene Klass' husband has furiously hit back at reports he left the TV presenter for Matt Cardle's ex girlfriend. Graham Quinn - who walked out o...

'Kim Kardashian Epitomises Everything That's Wrong With Our Society'

PA | Posted 19.06.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Photos of scantily clad celebrities such as Kim Kardashian sum up "almost everything that is wrong with Western society", according to a leading headm...

A Grand(age) New Season

Chris Cox | Posted 18.08.2012 | Home
Chris Cox

I'd only just recovered from the excitement of the new season at The Royal Court when ex Donmar Warehouse artistic director Michael Grandage went and announced his new company which looks like it could revolutionise the London theatre scene.

'Let Our Dad Die' - One Family's Fight for Assisted Dying

Sally Beck | Posted 17.08.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Sally Beck

'We're fighting for the right for Dad to die. Everything that we want we want to be regulated and to be strict, it shouldn't be easy. It should be really difficult to make sure that people aren't being coerced, that people are of sound mind and that it is what people want to do, but it should be possible.'

Sand Up For Your Rights: Giant Beach Created For IOW Festival

PA | Posted 18.06.2012 | UK Entertainment

A giant beach is being created at the Isle of Wight Festival to give revellers a place to relax in between the acts being headlined by Bruce Springste...

Brand MCs For The Dalai Lama

The Huffington Post UK | Chris York | Posted 16.06.2012 | UK

His Holiness the Dalai Lama was joined onstage by Russell Brand on Saturday as he spokes to thousands of youngsters at the Manchester Arena. The ta...

Gethin Jones Offered Daughters From Matchmaking Mums

WENN | Posted 16.06.2012 | Home

TV hunk Gethin Jones has been inundated with dating offers from matchmaking mums since his split from Katherine Jenkins last year. The couple was e...