EMMERDALE’S Ruby Haswell dreamt of a big white wedding, so the soap’s costume department gave the character a stunning, sweetheart-necklined, full-skirted confection for her nuptials to Ali Spencer.

TIRELESS Chernobyl campaigner Adi Roche has scooped what has been described as the “Nobel Prize for Children” for her continued efforts to improve the lives of children living in the shadow of one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters.

MTV denied that they had erected their own “wall” around U2’s free concert tonight, which celebrates 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Frames have been nominated in two categories for the Meteor Ireland Music Awards - Best Irish Album and Best Irish Band.