Saoirse Ronan wins the best actress prize for her role as a young Irish immigrant in the tearjerker Brooklyn at the Moet British Independent Film Awards.

Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding and Jason Derulo are all in the running for song of the year at Thursday's BBC Music Awards, it is announced.

Holly Woodlawn, the transgender actress who inspired Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side and appeared in Andy Warhol's films Trash and Women in Revolt, dies of cancer aged 69.

Broadway musical School of Rock, written by Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, opens to mixed reviews.

Nicholas Smith, the actor who played store manager Mr Rumbold in the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served?, dies aged 81.

The BBC's adaptation of JK Rowling's Casual Vacancy is nominated for best short form drama by the Writer's Guild of Great Britain.

Rapper Kendrick Lamar leads the field for next year's Grammy Awards, while Taylor Swift and The Weeknd also receive multiple nominations.

The winner of this year's Turner Prize is to be announced in Glasgow later - the first time the contemporary art award has been staged in Scotland.