The British Museum's Pompeii and Ice Age exhibitions have helped attract record numbers of visitors this year, the museum's annual report has revealed.

Sea shanty group Fisherman's Friends release a single in memory of one of their singers who died in an accident.

A rare first edition of TS Eliot's The Waste Land that was donated to an Oxfam bookshop sells for £4,500 at auction.

Professor Mick Aston, a former resident academic on long-running Channel 4 show Time Team, has died at the age of 66, the programme confirms.

Mumford and Sons confirm they will play at Glastonbury, despite the band's bassist's operation two weks ago to remove a blood clot on his brain.

Scotland's newest concert venue - The Hydro - is to host this year's Mobo Awards.

The BBC accuses Turkey of trying to "intimidate" BBC journalists, after the Ankara mayor launches a Twitter campaign against a corporation reporter.

A critically acclaimed West End revival of the musical A Chorus Line is to close at the end of August.