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Charles Dickens biographer Claire Tomalin says children are not being taught to read with the attention span necessary to appreciate the novelist's works.

US singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey goes straight in at number one in the UK album chart with her debut release Born To Die.

Gerard Depardieu is to star in a movie about the sex scandal that caused IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn to resign.

Bee Gees star Robin Gibb says he is making a "spectacular" recovery from cancer and that he is feeling "fantastic".

Film-maker Zalman King, best known for writing and producing the hit movie Nine and a Half Weeks, dies aged 70.

Children's laureate and Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson writes a poem in protest at planned library closures across the country.

The BBC's Director General, Mark Thompson, accuses the Iranian authorities of intimidating those working for its Persian service.

One of the most famous paintings by Fife artist Jack Vettriano has gone on public display for the first time in two decades.

US film and Broadway actor Ben Gazzara has died in New York at the age of 81.

Almost a year after the film reigned supreme at the Oscars, the stage version of The King's Speech has its world premiere.