Tributes have been pouring in for the actor who played R2D2 in the Star Wars films, who died at the age of 81.

It could only happen at the Eurovision Song Contest— TV presenter preforming an electro-pop ballad dancing in front of a black screen with animated gnomes, wins the final.

A COUPLE who run a Chinese restaurant in Essex were given the go-ahead by the High Court yesterday to keep the £10 million (€14m) one of their elderly and long-standing friends left them on her death.