The funeral of actress Lynda Bellingham who died last month from cancer at the age of 66, is to be held later in Somerset.

Actor Sadashiv Amrapurkar, who made his name playing villainous characters in Bollywood films, dies aged 64 after a lung infection.

Many of Hampshire's museums and art collections are shifted from council control to a trust in an attempt to slash costs.

Jake Gyllenhaal thriller Nightcrawler and horror film Ouija tie at the top of the North American box office over Halloween, with just $8,700 between them.

A new play set on the night of the 2015 general election is to be broadcast live from the Donmar Warehouse theatre on More4 on election night itself.

The role of sausage entrepreneur Tom Archer in long-running BBC Radio 4 soap The Archers is to be re-cast after actor Tom Graham loses the part.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Timothy Spall will compete for the best actor prize at this year's British Independent Film Awards.

Paintings thought to be the work of renowned forger Elmyr de Hory are actually fakes.