Hundreds of arts organisations will find out that they have lost out on Arts Council England funding later because of a £100m budget cut.

British thriller writer John Le Carre asks judges to withdraw his name from the Man Booker International Prize shortlist saying he does not wish to compete.

The manager of a Kent theatre says he is delighted to have signed up 1990s rapper Vanilla Ice for this year's pantomime.

Police are concerned for missing BBC Bristol radio presenter Peter Rowell who did not turn up for work on Tuesday.

A love letter written by poet John Keats to his neighbour in London before his death is auctioned for £96,000.

Hollywood star George Clooney is among 78 possible witnesses named for Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi's trial on charges of sex with an under-age prostitute.

The fifth series of US ad agency drama Mad Men will not hit TV screens before March 2012 because of stalled contract talks with its creator.

A self-portrait of artist Lucian Freud, which he drew for his mother's birthday card, is expected to fetch up to £6,000 when it is sold next month.