Almost £500m is to be spent on the UK film industry over the next five years, with a focus on investment outside London as part of a new plan involving Wallace and Gromit creators Aardman.

The Advertising Standards Agency rules that two posters for the Channel 4 show My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding were offensive and irresponsible.

Gareth Malone describes the single of the year prize his Military Wives choir have won at this year's Classic Brit awards as "the candle on the icing of a very large cake".

The London band's second album Babel becomes the fastest-selling album released this year in the US.

Time-travel action movie Looper is the top draw at UK cinemas over the weekend, topping the box office chart with a three-day haul of £2.4 million.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling's first novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy, goes straight to the top of the fiction charts following its release last Thursday.

A Top of the Pops stage tour, which was to have featured tribute acts playing hits from the TV show's heyday, is cancelled due to low ticket sales.

US performance artist David Blaine is to spend three days and three nights standing amid an artificial lightning storm as part of his latest feat of endurance.