'Yates of the Yard' handed consultant role at G3, firm that advised on Wills and Kate's wedding

The press watchdog said today the Daily Star newspaper was guilty of "sloppy journalism" over an article which claimed Peaches Geldof received money for "showing up to parties".

'Richard knows the business inside out, and I've drawn on that shamelessly over the years'

What would Rumpole say? Paula Yates was horrified, Peter Snow was delighted and yesterday Sir John Mortimer, the creator of Rumpole of the Bailey, said he was "very happy".

Musician and presenter Jools Holland made TV history as presenter of the iconoclastic Eighties music programme The Tube, and achieved fame as a musician with Squeeze and later his own band. He presents BBC2's Later With Jools Holland.

Channel 4's commercial director answers Richard Cook's criticisms of The Big Breakfast

These days more people watch re-runs of Top Cat than tune in to The Big Breakfast, whose ratings have been declining since the glory days of Chris Evans and Gaby Roslin. Can they ever get the chemistry right again?

THE FULL scale of the London Broncos' task in the Silk Cut Challenge Cup final at Wembley on Saturday has become a little clearer with Graham Murray naming a full-strength Leeds side for Wembley. The last injury doubt was cleared up yesterday when the New Zealand Test centre, Richie Blackmore, was included in the team despite not having played since the semi-final victory over Bradford.

TELEVISION Corporation, the TV production and programme supplier, is prepared to spend up to pounds 50m on acquisitions as it attempts to exploit the explosion of digital TV channels.

ONE OF Radio 4's most controversial new programmes received an award yesterday when John Peel was named radio broadcaster of the year by the Television and Radio Industries Club.

A friend lent me a series of tapes by a spoof American DJ called Roy D Mercer who rings up unwitting people to complain about something. He's a country hick who starts politely but by the end of the call he tells them he's going to come down town and "whip your arse". What is so artistic about his show is the way he reveals lazy southern America. It has kept me going while I've been on the road.

UNLIKELY AS it might seem, Vanessa Feltz has even made an enemy of the broadcasters' union Bectu on her way to the top of television.

Television Review

The coroner's verdict on the death of Michael Hutchence was suicide. But Paula Yates, the singer's girlfriend, claims that other forces were at work. So what really happened on the night of 21 November 1997? And why?