A new series of books featuring the flying car Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is being written by children's author Frank Cottrell Boyce.

Singer Marianne Faithfull has been awarded one of the highest cultural honours in France.

AMs are set to vote on a cull of badgers in west Wales as Queen guitarist and campaigner Brian May opposes the motion.

A movie is made on the space station that tries to show what Yuri Gagarin might have seen on his historic first flight around the Earth in 1961.

Sir Elton John and Dame Helen Mirren are lined up to host episodes of US comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live in April.

The suspended producer of Midsomer Murders is to 'step down' after the end of the current series, ITV announces.

A Chinese version of Hamlet and a Korean version of The Tempest are among the shows in this year's Edinburgh International Festival.

Critics give their verdict on the Pet Shop Boys' first foray into ballet, based on Hans Christian Andersen's story The Most Incredible Thing.