Model turned entrepreneur Lily Cole is hoping to leave the catwalk behind for a more worthwhile pursuit.

There will be no change to the German approach to the resolution of the eurozone crisis if the CDU/SPD parties form the next government, according to Financial Times’ associate editor, Quentin Peel.

There are further signs the Irish banking system is stabilising with deposit volumes unchanged in June compared with the previous month at €152.03bn, according to the Department of Finance.

IT WAS a fight to the debt.

BATTERED, bruised and increasingly incredulous investors had to watch again yesterday as bank shares took another pounding.