X Factor judge Louis Walsh has announced plans to form a new boy band to rival One Direction.

The revolving door at Jack Wills has swung again as the preppy fashion retailer seeks to sharpen up its top team for the next phase of expansion.

If One Direction fans can't get enough of forthcoming 3D documentary on the boys, This Is Us, from Morgan Spurlock, then they can look forward to another factual programme on the boy band from Channel 4 - and can expect to play a starring role themselves. 

It's hard to believe it, but it's internet giant YouTube's eighth birthday today.

Chart-topping boy band JLS will be the headline act at the opening ceremony of a charity football match between Manchester United and Real Madrid legends.

Business secretary Vince Cable has retracted an attack on the earnings of boy band One Direction, whom he mistakenly called “New Direction”.

Former Westlife star Shane Filan has signed a solo record deal, just months after being declared bankrupt.

Rival boy bands One Direction and The Wanted have become embroiled in a Twitter row.

There's a strange, archaic feel to the songs of head Messenger, MC Taylor, with their Biblical references and invocations to “cleave ye to the rock”.

Bizarre complaints revealed by online cruise travel agency

Labour will unveil key economic policies in the next weeks and months as it speeds up its drive to regain credibility on the issue while the debate between Ed Miliband and Ed Balls intensifies

Outlook If it were possible to buy and sell stock in Mark Carney I'd be shorter than Warwick Davis.

As boyband 5ive attempt to make a comeback through ITV series The Big Reunion, they've claimed that One Direction wouldn't be where they are right now in America without Twitter.

Robbie Williams has changed his tune after an extended rant against Britpop stars Suede and their frontman Brett Anderson - and has admitted he went off "on a tangent".