Shortlist

Only two applicants made it onto the shortlist.

Nobody knows the shortlist of nominees for Japanese ambassador to Colombia yet.

Alan Garner is the oldest author ever to be included in the shortlist for the Booker Prize, Britain's best known annual literary award. He is also the only British author to be shortlisted this year.

This year, there are two Americans authors, two Irish authors, one Canadian and one Kenyan author on the shortlist for the Booker Prize, Britain's best known annual literary award.

No British authors are on the shortlist for the Booker Prize this year.

The government's New Towns Taskforce has also published a report listing Crews Hill, on the Hertford Loop used by Moorgate services, on a shortlist of 12 potential new towns.

First and Trenitalia were initially shortlisted for the East Midlands franchise but withdrew from bidding to focus on the West Coast Partnership, while Trenitalia was shortlisted as a sole entity for the South Eastern franchise but again withdrew from the competition.