Elbow's Guy Garvey is starting a new record label solely for vinyl EPs to revive the format, he tells the BBC.

This year's London Film Festival will close with the European premiere of new Dickens adaptation Great Expectations, directed by Mike Newell and starring Helena Bonham Carter.

A colourful line of pulsating balloons is to line the night sky across the 73 miles (117km) of Hadrian's Wall.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a film adaptation of the Mohsin Hamid novel starring Kate Hudson, gets the Venice Film Festival under way.

US actor John Lithgow is to star in the National Theatre's Christmas show, playing the title role in Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's The Magistrate.

A peak audience of 11.2 million tuned in to watch the Paralympic opening ceremony on Wednesday, Channel 4 says.

Labour MP Diane Abbott should not have been paid for recent appearances on BBC One's This Week, the BBC Trust rules.

Five artists are shortlisted for the £25,000 John Moores Painting Prize, handed out every two years as part of the Liverpool Biennial.