Jury change favours mainstream shows at expense of independents

The midfielder was subjected to abuse earlier this season

Album of the week

The Brooklyn-born documentary photographer Leonard Freed travelled widely and published books on, among many things, the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, the Jewish community of Amsterdam, and the New York City Police Department. But he is best known for documenting the Civil Rights Movement, and the 1968 book Black and White in America.

Just as My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James was thinking about a solo album, someone gave him a copy of Lynd Ward's 1929 woodblock-print graphic novel God's Man, whose depictions of temptation, corruption and redemption triggered a concept-album in grand Sufjan Stevens style.

So January's over: and here's why it's now OK to feel chipper. Spring is coming. Maybe tonight's the night you'll break a month long detox. It's Friday. And these facts, collected by Ink Tank blog, will (temporarily) make you feel like the world is a brain-meltingly wonderful place (which it might be).

This was the real Barack Obama: not the calculating party politician with an eye on the next election, not a president sometimes accused of aloofness, even passivity – but a national leader boldly setting out what he wants to do, and only too aware he has precious little time to achieve it.

A gene has been uncovered that may help to create born leaders.

Film locations are always compelling destinations and New Zealand, the setting for The Hobbit will come back into focus in 2013.

When the mayor of LA held a weapons amnesty after the massacre at Sandy Hook, people were queueing round the block

It's been 57 years since the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus.

Yesterday the White House marked the anniversary by tweeting a picture of Barack Obama sitting in the bus where Parks stood her ground.

There’s one overwhelming reason to check out this dramatically rather run-of-the-mill bio-musical, and that is to savour Emi Wokoma’s phenomenal performance as Tina Turner.

Casa de Mi Padre (84 mins, 15)

Mahalia Jackson was a woman on fire," said Cerys Matthews in Conjuring Halie in that tremulous half-whisper of hers. "Her hair danced madly when she sang out in her rich contralto voice, and (she) moved her listeners to shout and cry."