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French actress Eva Green, who played love interest Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale, won the Orange rising star award voted for by the British public.

“It’s a real honour because I’m French and it’s an English award. I have just moved here and have had the most amazing welcome,” she said.

Whitaker, who has also won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards for The Last King of Scotland, said: “This means a lot because to be embraced by another shore is a special thing.

I try to think of myself as a citizen of the planet,” he added.

Greengrass’s United 93 depicts one of the 11 September 2001 plane hijackings.

Accepting his award, the film-maker said: “I firmly believe that cinema must deal with the way the world is and the dangers there are. We need it very much now.”

The Spanish-language dark fairytale Pan’s Labyrinth won three Baftas including the award for best foreign language film.

Former US reality TV show contestant Jennifer Hudson added the best supporting actress prize to her considerable collection for her performance in the musical Dreamgirls.

Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock’s script for The Last King of Scotland won the best adapted screenplay honour.

The award for special achievement by a British director in their first feature film went to Andrea Arnold for the Glasgow-set drama Red Road.

The best animated feature film Bafta was awarded to Happy Feet.

The National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) said that first-time buyers had returned to the market, followed by home movers
Families wishing to upgrade or young couples needing a bigger house to raise a family were active in the market again, according to NAEA president Gary Smith.
This was backed up by the Rics survey which showed that more surveyors were reporting enquiries from new buyers.
The actual number of sales was also up – with surveyors selling an average of 17 each in the last three months. This was the most since May 2008 but still a third down on the position at the beginning of 2008.
Sales were highest per surveyor in the East Midlands and West Midlands, with the lowest number of sales per surveyor reported in London.

In many cultures, men tend to be most jealous about their partners having sex with someone else. Women, on the other hand, are more likely to be upset about their partners forming an emotional attachment with another party.
It seems that males want to know if their rival was good in bed; females want to know if he loves the “other woman”.
Psychologists argue about the source of jealousy. Does it have deep-rooted origins in human evolution, or has it been modified by more recent social changes?
The green-eyed monster of jealousy is alive and well – and living in Brazil, according to an international study. Those in favour of the evolutionary explanation say it could be due to the fact that men can never be absolutely certain that a child is really theirs. Hence, their desire for partners not to have sex with another man.
They also maintain that the origin of jealousy in women is due to the substantial investment they make in time and energy in producing a child. They do not want it to be wasted if their partner falls in love with someone else.
The alternative viewpoint is that men are upset by sex because they think it implies emotional commitment, although they also believe a woman can be emotionally involved without having sex.
Women are upset by emotional infidelity because they believe that for men it automatically means sex, although women

The Venezuelan economy is set to grow for the fourth year running this year on the back of strong oil prices. Last July the price reached more than US$147, but has slumped at one point recently to below US$60. Oil analysts Goldman Sachs say it could drop to US$50 in the event of a world recession
The former head of the Venezuelan central bank, Domingo Maza Zavala, thinks that anything less than US$70 a barrel would mean current levels of economic activity could not be sustained.
“We are on the edge of a precipice and we should prepare for contingencies,” says Mr Maza Zavala.
“The government is presenting a different panorama to Venezuelans, which is dangerous because the best way of confronting dangers and risks is the truth.”
Analysts point out that the key factor is the average price of Venezuelan oil over several months and not the price on any particular day.
“There is no chance of an economic collapse this year,” Jose Manuel Puente, from the Public Policy Centre in Caracas, told the BBC.
“Even if the price stays low for the rest of the year, the average price for 2008 will still be around US$95 a barrel”.
Government officials are also quick to point out that Venezuela has large foreign exchange reserves of nearly US$40bn.

Mizer who worked on the case from the start developed a close relationship with his client, as his only access to the outside world
But he also described a difficult relationship at a times with a man who tried to make up for his powerless situation by exercising some authority over his defence attorneys.
Mizer also visited Hamdan’s family in Yemen to collect testimony from his wife.
The Washington Post commented that the Bush administration had acted fairly and responsibly by taking the decision to transfer Hamdan.
It also remarked that this “spares incoming president Barack Obama the burden of deciding at the very outset of his administration whether, when and where to release Mr Hamdan”.
It is indeed one decision less to take in relation to Guantanamo Bay, but with more than 200 detainees remaining, including high-profiles like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the 9/11 plotter, the road to closing Guantanamo will be long and complicated.

Postal collection drivers from the Bristol mail centre are staging a 24-hour strike.
The walk-out by 1,000 workers is as a result of an ongoing dispute over pay, conditions and cuts to the service.
The action will disrupt collections across Bristol and the South West with no deliveries on Wednesday and fewer than normal on Thursday.
Royal Mail bosses say changes have to be made because of a declining volume of traditional mail being handled.
The strike started at 1330 BST on Tuesday and is the latest industrial action to hit postal services in the area in the past few weeks.
The company said it is disappointed the strikes by Communication Workers Union members are continuing.
Dave Ward, CWU deputy general secretary, said: “Royal Mail needs to accept that there has been a big breakdown in trust between staff and management.
“The way to resolve this and get the modernisation programme back on track is to have serious negotiations with the CWU to reach a fair and workable agreement.
“We welcome the planned meetings with Royal Mail next week, however until there is a material difference for our members we will not be in a position to call off strike action.”

People with high blood pressure and raised cholesterol levels have a much higher risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease as they get older.
Scientists said the discovery was an important weapon in the fight against dementia.
The Finnish scientists said their research could be tailored to help identify and treat people at risk from Alzheimer’s, which affects one in five people by the age of 80.
And the Alzheimer’s Society said the research provided an important piece of the jigsaw in the fight against the disease.
Dr Richard Harvey, director of research at the Alzheimer’s Society, said he hoped the public would take on-board the message that there were some life-style changes they could make now that would cut their risks of getting the disease.
He said high blood pressure and raised cholesterol were linked to vascular disease and that if this caused damage to the brain it could account for the link with Alzheimer’s.
“This is an important new piece of research. The results of this study fit together well with the jigsaw puzzle we are fitting together.
“This gives a good public health message that people need to look at their risk factors.”

Dr Richard Harvey, director of research at the Alzheimer’s Society, said that elderly people with the disease were “at the bottom of the pile” when it came to health resources.
“They cannot assert their own rights, and their carers are often too tired and burdened to stand up for them,” he said.
“For such a serious and damaging disease, it is a scandal to hear that less than half of people with dementia seek a diagnosis, and that only one in three receive any form of treatment.
“While treatments don’t work for everyone, and the effects are not permanent, they nevertheless have a real impact on people’s quality of life.”
Rebecca Wood, chief executive of the Alzheimer’s Research Trust, said: “It is very important that people are aware of the three relatively new drugs which are available for the treatment of Alzheimer’s in the mild to moderate stages of the disease.”
The Alzheimer’s Research Trust is funding a major project in early diagnosis which should in future mean even more people can benefit from this help.

All the time, his condition was deteriorating fast – only a transplant could reverse that. But Gordon feared that by the time an organ became available, he might not be strong enough to endure the operation.
“Some patients had their transplants in three months. One was only on the list for two weeks. Can you imagine how depressing it was?”
Eventually, after the false alarms, the kidney of a 40-year-old woman became available and the operation went ahead.
The surgery was a complete success, and Gordon has been in greatly improved health ever since, although the drugs he has been taking to prevent his body rejecting the donor organ have produced unpleasant side-effects.
He said: “I’ve had at least 40 operations to remove skin cancer lumps – I’ve stopped counting now.
“But since my life was saved, I’ve fathered another child, and I’ve seen another two grandchildren born. That means a lot to me.
“I owe so much to that 40-year-old lady, and to her family who carried out her wishes.”

Patients are waiting longer than ever to receive organ transplants in Scotland because of a lack of donors.
The average waiting time has grown from 18 months to three years over the last decade.
It has also emerged that the number of people on the organ donor register also varies wildly across the country – from 24% in Fife to just 1% in the Western Isles.
The annual National Transplant Week is being launched on Friday at a time when the need to raise awareness about organ donation is greater than ever.
A decade ago a large proportion of donated organs came from car crash victims.
However, seatbelts, drink-driving campaigns and traffic calming measures like speed bumps have led to one of the lowest road death rates in the world.
The number of available organs falls by about 3% every year, but the number of people in need of a transplant is increasing by the same level.