Ed Sheeran is in the running for four awards at the 32nd Brits, while Adele - fresh from winning six Grammys - and Jessie J are up for three each.

Sir Elton John will be the first artist to play a concert on the new Tower Festival Headland in Blackpool this summer, it is announced.

Opera star Elizabeth Connell, who performed with such leading opera houses as the Royal Opera House and La Scala, dies at 65.

Britpop band Blur are to headline a show in London's Hyde Park to celebrate the end of the Olympic Games later this year.

Antonio Banderas is to play Pablo Picasso in upcoming film 33 Days, based on the period when the Spanish artist produced his masterpiece Guernica.

Digital radio station Jazz FM apologises after what appeared to be part of a pornographic film soundtrack was broadcast during one of its shows.

Little Britain star David Walliams is to have his best-selling children's novel Mr Stink adapted into a BBC One comedy drama, it is announced.

A copy of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, believed to have been painted at the same time as the original, goes on display at Madrid's Prado museum.