40 biggest news stories of the year 2011

1. In July Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner and Alexa Chung announced they had split up. The couple called time on the four-year relationship with Liz Matthews, Alexa's spokeswoman, confirming the split to the Sunday Mirror, commenting: "It's completely amicable - but yes it's true. They have split." In September it was announced Chung was seeing Hurts' Leo Hutchcraft.

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• Added: Dec 9, 2011

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