'Coronation Street' bosses are introducing a new disabled character to the soap.

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THOUGH he’s popularly known as ‘Nidge’ from RTÉ’s hit drama Love/Hate, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor has been a much admired stage actor for many years.

To the list of ailments which we can only presume routinely assail whoever happens to be managing Chelsea at any given time, must now be added amnesia.

LESS STYLISH than Raging Bull, less euphoric than the Rocky films, The Fighter (US/15A/115 mins) is a boxing movie made in the image of its hero, ‘Irish’ Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg), a solid but unspectacular Irish-American scrapper who slugged his way to a shot at the world title in the mid-’90s.

Nicole Kidman triumphs in this harrowing, though often funny, story of death, grief, mourning and a couple, previously apparently blissfully contented, coming apart.

Bruce Willis's movie hit 'The Sixth Sense' was today declared the film with the biggest shock of all time.

Sharon Osbourne misses working with David Hasselhoff on ‘America’s Got Talent’.

An Australian woman who helped her Alzheimer's victim partner commit suicide was sentenced to jail today.

Nick Carter will never rekindle his love affair with socialite Paris Hilton, because he is bored of the sight of her.

Britney Spears has fallen for another musical bad boy and is now dating singer/songwriter Howie Day after meeting him in rehab.

HERBALISTS, acupuncturists and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners should be legally bound to register with a professional body or face prosecution, an expert group has recommended.

TÁNAISTE Mary Harney has ruled out making acupuncture and other alternative therapies available on the medical card.

THE Department of Health is considering the introduction of strict procedures for the registration of alternative health practitioners after the death of a 49-year-old man in Mayo.

A CORONER yesterday said a 49-year-old father of one, who died of suffocation caused by a cancer tumour while receiving alternative therapies, would still be alive had he had received conventional medicine.

The woman who claims a sergeant raped her in their local garda station has denied during cross-examination at the Central Criminal Court that she told lies concerning the alleged incident.

Two Beatles fans claim they spent half an hour chatting with George Harrison just days before he died.