A dental nurse was jailed for 10 years today for killing her husband in a row over what to watch on television.

At times of national crisis, it is obligatory to turn to Churchill for inspiration. So to Chris Huhne and Baroness Warsi, I say this: if Winston and Lord Halifax could resolve the small matter of which of them would succeed Chamberlain in 1940 over a civil cup of cha, why can't you two behave yourselves over AV?

The suspicion hardens that his BS is an amalgam of long irrelevant <i>noblesse oblige</i> and barely less outmoded hippy idealism

From Bo Burnham to Harry Hill, stand-ups are rediscovering the joys and profits of the long-player, says Julian Hall

Ambitious young things always like to cling to their own kind. But a Mossad shark, much like Ena Sharples, prefers to swim alone

If you've seen the mirthless chav-baiting video for "I Wanna Baby" which, seven years since Vicky Pollard, fails on every conceivable level, you've already got Funny Times' number.

ITV has postponed tonight's episode of Coronation Street following the Cumbrian shootings.

John Hurt has been nominated for a TV Bafta for reprising the role of Quentin Crisp - 34 years after he received the award for playing the flamboyant gay writer in The Naked Civil Servant.

A popular voice can be an ex-voice if pushed too far

Small businesses say the banks won't lend; the banks say they won't borrow. Who’s right? There' s only one way to find out... but not by a Harry Hill style fight.

Ad-libbed shows are taking over the schedules &ndash; and they did pretty well at the British Comedy Awards, too. Victoria Richards reports

Soap star June Brown loses out to actress Anna Maxwell Martin