Princess Park Manor is attracting X Factor stars and C-list celebrities by the luxury-limo load, says Chris Beanland.

Unlike most of their peer Sixties songwriting/production teams, Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein and Richard Gottehrer didn't work with one eye lovingly trained on Broadway musical theatre, but remained focused on their first love, pop.

Sibling rivalry? You better believe it. That's what makes Toby a superb comedy sketch duo, says Alice Jones

Sibling rivalry? You bet. That's what makes Toby a superb sketch duo

She's a strange one, Emeli Sandé: a back-to-front pop star for back-to-front times.

Elizabeth Filkin's inquiry into relations between the police and the press followed claims that the phone-hacking scandal would have been exposed sooner, had it not been for the relationship between Rupert Murdoch's News International and the Metropolitan Police. Sure enough, she found that that relationship compromised – or corrupted, as she put it yesterday – the capacity of both police and press to hold one another to account, as democracy properly requires.

Nicola Roberts says therapy is "too expensive". 

Not for nothing was Phil Spector known as the Tycoon Of Teen: Philles, the label he formed a year earlier with old-school record executive Lester Sill, became in 1962 Spector's alone, making him, at 21, the youngest label head in America.

A Political Life

Music mogul gives Rhythmix music charity £20,000 donation after admitting defeat in legal battle over the name of the all-girl X Factor act

Nicola Roberts believes the next Girls Aloud album will be made "differently".

Cheryl Cole was serenaded by her ex-husband Ashley at a recent housewarming party.

Kelly Clarkson has formed a girl group, Already Famous, with her backing singers.

Nadine Coyle has confirmed Girls Aloud will reunite for their 10th anniversary next year.