Kind-hearted volunteers have created an unusual festive centrepiece for their community centre - a 6ft 2' knitted Christmas tree.

The EU-wide stress tests scheduled for March 2014 could be rolled out indefinitely to avoid lumpy recapitalisations, according to the global head of market economics at BNP Paribas, Paul Mortimer-Lee.

Fiona McMahon, who suffers from epilepsy, says inadvertently switching to a generic medication earlier this year could have cost her life.