Oscar-nominated actress Anne Hathaway lived up to her reputation as Hollywood's golden girl in a gold floor-length Gucci gown at the European premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in London.

The US summer movie season opens with a blast Friday as Disney's much-anticipated, $220 million "The Avengers" storms onto more than 4,000 domestic screens with expectations that it could earn between $150 million and $170 million in its first weekend. The record is held by last year's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" at $169.2 million.

Tom Cruise delighted fans who had waited for him in blistering cold last night as he arrived at the London premiere of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.

This week several newspapers ran stories claiming that the vast majority of the tents outside St Paul's were empty at night.

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Manufacturers are planning the biggest push on prices since January 1989.

Lisa Ponter unveils the new MG as full-scale production commences at its Longbridge factory in Birmingham for the first time in six years.

A man is squeezed through a five inch gap in a conveyor system and suffers terrible injuries.

UK manufacturing grew in January at its fastest annual rate in 16 years, official figures revealed today, adding to evidence the the economy bounced back from a dismal end to last year.

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Credit conditions appear to be improving for British manufacturers, but demand for finance is still muted so the new-found stability is yet to be tested, a survey published this morning will show.

Britain’s small and medium enterprises are now feeling more confident about their business prospects than at any time since April 2007, the Confederation of British Industry said today.