Tim Burton's Disney animation Frankenweenie is to open this year's BFI London Film Festival.

Fewer celebrities and civil servants should receive honours and the process should be made more transparent, a group of MPs says.

Tuning a piano also tunes the brain, say UK researchers who have seen structural changes to areas of the brain that deal with memory and navigation.

Duran Duran are forced to cancel the remaining two dates of their world tour because keyboard player Nick Rhodes is still too ill to perform.

Liverpool City Council will review its new policy on busking after campaigners applied for a High Court injunction to bar its enforcement.

Recorded crime at the Reading Festival falls for the second year in succession, according to figures from Thames Valley Police.

The shortlist is revealed for the second Welsh Music Prize, won last year by Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys.

Artist Damien Hirst explains how he was inspired by a 1975 episode of children's TV show Blue Peter, which demonstrated how to make spin paintings.