Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Saturday 9 Oct 2010

Our popular news catch-up service is posted Monday to Friday at 8.0 am, and on weekends at 11.0 am. You can rely on it to keep you up to date with the main news talking points... MILIBAND MAKES HIS MARKLabour leader Ed Miliband's decision yesterday to give the top job of chancellor to outside candidate Alan Johnson is being received as a bold attempt to stamp his authority on the party. Miliband had been expected to appoint either Ed Balls or Yvette Cooper but instead went with a man who agrees with him that Labour's current plan to halve the deficit over four years is fundamentally sound. Johnson beats Cooper and Balls to shadow chancellor FANS MUST WAIT FOR 3D HARRY POTTERWarner Brothers has announced that it will not after all be releasing the next Harry Potter film in 3D as it wasn’t going to be finished in time for the scheduled release date. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 will thrill fans in only two dimensions, but Part 2 is expected to be the first 3D instalment of the wizardry series. CHILE MINERS: RESCUE STARTS TODAYRescuers expect to reach the 33 miners who have been trapped underground in Chile since August 5 this morning. An overnight vigil has been held by relatives at the mine head as a massive drill clears the final few metres of rock to the trapped men. The next stage will be to check whether the escape shaft’s walls must be lined with metal. Picture: Chile prepares to rescue miners BARBARA WINDSOR'S REAL-LIFE CARRY ONActress Barbara Windsor has revealed her raunchy screen image during her heyday as a Carry On actress was reflected in real life. Asked by an interviewer how many lovers she had, she replied "No idea. Why? Have you counted them?" She said sex with the late George Best was "fabulous" and said he was "so beautiful". LINDSAY LOHAN'S TWITTER BANTroubled actress Lindsay Lohan is currently undergoing treatment for drug and alcohol problems at the Betty Ford Centre. But it has emerged the Mean Girls star is also being forced to deal with her Twitter addiction. She has not added to her existing 3,163 tweets since entering the centre on September 27 after she failed drug tests. Awaiting jail, Lohan wins 'milkaholic' lawsuit MICHAEL CAINE: 'I HELPED MY FATHER DIE'Sir Michael Caine has weighed into the controversy over assisted suicide by revealing he persuaded a doctor to give his father a fatal overdose when he was in the last throes of liver cancer. The 77-year-old actor's father, Maurice Micklewhite, died in 1957 at the age of 58. Caine said he kept what he had done secret from his mother. BRITON WINS £113 MILLION LOTTERY JACKPOTA British player has won £113,374,997.83 in the EuroMillions lottery after correctly matching all seven numbers at odds of 76,275,360 to one. It's the biggest win ever in EuroMillions and the most ever won by a Briton in any lottery. The Times observes today that the unnamed winner is now ranked 589th on the Sunday Times Rich List. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER HASN'T BEEN TOLDChinese dissident Liu Xiaobo is one of the few people in the world who doesn’t know he has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. He is currently serving an 11-year sentence for demanding democracy and human rights for China and his jailers have not told him. He will learn only when his wife makes her monthly one-hour visit. China livid as Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel Peace Prize GOLD MEDAL WAS WALK-OVER FOR JACKSONEngland’s Jo Jackson (above) has become the first British woman to win a major walking race, taking the gold medal for the women’s event at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi. Her victory marked the first time in 20 years that the gold has not gone to an Australian. Last year’s victor, Claire Tallent, finished in second place. More woe in Delhi as strike threat looms over Games X FACTOR'S MR NASTY HELPS GAMU Simon Cowell has revealed a softer side to his mean public persona. The impresario has asked his lawyers to help rejected X Factor contestant Gamu Nhengu fight against deportation after her family got into difficulties over their visas. The 18-year-old Zimbabwean fears for her life if she is sent home after five years in the UK. X Factor's Gamu Nhengu to fight deportation order

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