Gareth Gates is to marry his long-term girlfriend.

The 23-year-old singer proposed to dancer Suzanne Mole, 32, on New Year's Eve, and was thrilled when she said "yes".

The Spice Girls are talentless and unattractive, according to music mogul Louis Walsh. The Irish 'X Factor' judge claims the recently reunited girl band can't sing and are uglier than Girls Aloud - who he previously managed.

Louis raged to Britain's Star magazine: "The Spice Girls are very lucky and very overrated."

Britain's Princes William and Harry have pleaded for people to remember the "amazing things" their late mother Princess Diana achieved. The royal brothers revealed in a BBC interview to mark the 10th anniversary of Diana's death that they constantly have to defend their mother's legacy to critics who have "forgotten" the great charity work she did.

William told interviewer Fern Cotton: "After 10 years there's been a rumbling of people bringing up the bad and over time people seem to forget - or have forgotten - all the amazing things she did and what an amazing person she was."