Picking the bobbly ones from the Liquorice Allsorts of the media sweetshop

All the news the International Journal Of Pigeon Fanciers is too scared to print!

Rob Brydon likes Neil Diamond. (Sunday Telegraph)

David Walliams went to the Strokes gig at London's Natural History Museum last week. (The Sun)

It won't be the same again. The Torquay Hotel that inspired Fawlty Towers, the Gleneagles Hotel, has been refurbished at a cost of £1million. (The Mirror)

Red Buttons, the veteran New York comedian who died last Thursday aged 87, said a couple of years back: 'Sure, I've gotten old. I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees... I've fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, and take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. I have bouts with dementia, poor circulation, hardly feel my hands or feet anymore, can't remember if I'm 85 or 92. But thank God ¼ I still have my Florida driver's licence.' (anecdotage.com)

Meera Syal has confessed that she has found being an older mother "knackering". (The Mirror)

Frank Skinner will learn to play the banjo for a new TV show. (The Stage)

Ben Elton says: 'I don't see myself as naturally amusing.' (The Australian)