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29 October 2014 Last updated at 17:42

Mercury Prize announcement awaited

The music world will find out later who has won the 2014 Barclaycard Mercury Prize, as bookmakers put FKA Twigs and Kate Tempest ahead in the competition.

'Orphan' artworks set to find homes

Millions of photos, diaries, letters and recordings whose copyright owners cannot be traced may be made accessible for the first time under a new scheme.

Photographers' anger at law change

Unwell Nutini cancels more UK gigs

Chart-topping singer Paolo Nutini postpones two more UK arena shows in London and Cardiff due to "severe tonsillitis".

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Spacey mourns House of Cards actress

Kevin Spacey pays tribute to actress Elizabeth Norment, who played Nancy Kaufberger, the secretary to his character in US TV drama House of Cards.
Collins hands over Alamo artefacts

Singer Phil Collins hands over his large collection of Alamo memorabilia to a Texas museum, calling the donation the end of a six-decade "journey".
Joan Rivers family hires legal firm
Big Brother to launch in China
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Batman fan 'disappointed' by auction
Million pound grant for museum
Eric Morecambe Day plan proposed

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Plaque honours city's second poet

A plaque honouring a poet who Dylan Thomas called "the most profound and greatly accomplished Welshman writing poems in English" is to be unveiled in Swansea.
London skatepark given listed status
Noriega fails to sue Call of Duty

Film

Brad Pitt's Fury tops UK box office

Brad Pitt's World War Two drama Fury tops the UK and Ireland box office in its first week of release.
Nolan's Interstellar 'a flawed epic'
Hugh Jackman treated for cancer again

Music

U2 star's PA loses theft appeal

A former personal assistant to U2 star Adam Clayton loses an appeal against her conviction for stealing 2.8m euros (£2.2m) from the guitarist.
Police seek 'Oasis fan' after theft
Robbie Williams tweets birth of second child

TV & radio

Harris 'to host US Takeaway show'

Actor Neil Patrick Harris is to host a US version of ITV's Saturday Night Takeaway, according to reports.
Strictly widens X Factor ratings gap
Screen stars at Bafta Cymru awards

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Quote of the day

“My nine-year-old son was saying, 'Why are you going to give it all away, Dad? I thought I was going to have it.”

Singer Phil Collins hands over his large collection of Alamo memorabilia to a Texas museum.

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