Scottish poet John Burnside has been named the winner of the £10,000 Forward Prize for his collection Black Cat Bone.

The BBC is to announce how it proposes to make budget cuts of 20% as a result of the freeze to the licence fee.

A recording of Michael Jackson bemoaning his unhappy childhood is played to the trial of the doctor charged with his death.

An international celebration of Charles Dickens's life and work will take place next year to mark the 200th anniversary of the British author's birth.

Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp apologises for "regretful" comments made in an interview comparing photo shoots to being raped.

US singer David Cassidy sues Sony, claiming he was not paid for sales of Partridge Family merchandise bearing his image.

Tomas Transtroemer, Scandinavia's best-known living poet, becomes the 108th recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

A BBC Two programme detailing British life in a single day is to be made as part of the Cultural Olympiad.