As thousands of recent graduates go into the New Year unemployed, one enterprising young hopeful has made his own desperation for paid work the centre of an advertising campaign that went viral yesterday.

Comedian Jim Davidson “vigorously denies” allegations made against him by two women, his solicitor said.

"War is over! If you want it" proclaimed a series of billboards erected around the world by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in December 1969.

Dear little Tom Daley is excited about his new role, as mentor to celebrities learning to dive for a new TV series, Splash! (which launches on Saturday). Us? Not so much.

At the fag-end of 2012, it seems pertinent to reflect not only on the musical year, but also on all the other end-of-year-lists – and two albums whose widespread omission has turned me into one of those end-of-year-list bores.

Fine thrillers, quality documentaries, a top Bond villain ... and some pop disasters

Olympics and Jubilee made it a very good year for some stars, but Sandé topped the podium

The Bee Gees managed to survive the vicissitudes of showbiz fortune by reinventing themselves according to the changing demands of the mid-1970s.

The Punjab province of Pakistan anxiously waited to learn whether the UK Christmas number one would be claimed by one of their own

Though our telegram from the Queen appears to have been lost in the post, it must not be allowed to escape the nation’s attention that Being Modern is – as the more eagle-eyed among you may have noticed from the number above – 100 columns old today. Yay for us, etc.

‘We’d sit in the make-up caravan, our hair unwashed, holding bacon sandwiches’

It’s because the French are instinctively statist that the Depardieu affair has exploded

“Does anyone want to hear another love song? Because I’ve got lots”, quips Ed Harcourt.