Czech novelist and dissident Ludvik Vaculik, who wrote the Two Thousand Words manifesto during the 1968 Prague Spring, dies, aged 88.

Money left by broadcaster Alan Whicker will be used to boost documentary-making in the UK, his estate announces.

Britain's most famous ski jumper, Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards, is warned a movie being made about his life is "90% made up".

Actor Alistair McGowan admits he had misgivings before agreeing to take on the part of Jimmy Savile in a new West End play.

Previously unseen letters by the then-teenage artist Lucian Freud to poet Stephen Spender are to be auctioned by Sotheby's.

British actors including Dame Helen Mirren and Carey Mulligan carry British hopes at the Tony theatre awards in New York later.

Florence and the Machine tops the UK album chart for the third time with their new album.