British publishers report record sales for 2012, with total spending up to £3.3bn, despite the recession and the rise of e-readers.

Welsh band Manic Street Preachers announce gigs in Australia and New Zealand so the "massive rugby fans" can follow this summer's 2013 British and Irish Lions tour.

Delia Smith is honoured by Bafta for her contribution to television cookery and services to broadcasting.

Some events at the UK City of Culture programme in Londonderry may have to be cut back because of a shortfall in funding.

Actress and singer Deanna Durbin, one of Hollywood's biggest box-office stars in the 1930s and early '40s, dies aged 91.

US director Woody Allen is returning to France for his next film, with Oscar-winning actor Colin Firth as one of its stars.

Coronation Street star William Roache is arrested on suspicion of the rape of an under-age girl in the 1960s.

The X Factor's creative director Brian Friedman says there could be a shake-up on the show this year.