A hand-written letter by Sir Paul McCartney asking a drummer, who advertised himself in the Liverpool Echo, to attend an audition is sold for £35,000.

Freddie Starr has recovered from an allergic reaction but won't be returning to I'm a Celebrity... say the show's producers.

The Somerset event is named this year's best major festival at the annual UK Festival Awards.

Tributes are paid to Scottish singer songwriter Jackie Leven, from Fife, who has died at the age of 61.

Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's surreal TV panel show Shooting Stars has been axed by the BBC, it is confirmed.

The National Theatre's production of One Man, Two Guvnors, starring Gavin and Stacey's James Corden, is to open on Broadway next year.

The singer says she is "on the mend" after having an operation on her throat which forced her to cancel her US tour last month.

A Southampton University professor completes the Mozart Requiem, 220 years after the composer's death.