The owner of the toy developer Vivid Imaginations has hired advisers at KPMG to sell the company for up to £80m.

Harold Pinter's ingeniously structured portrait of adultery is riveting to start with but, despite star casting, fails to maintain its backward momentum

Bunker. Bunkum. Bogey at the first. Not exactly how Graeme McDowell had dreamed he would start the defence of his US Open title. Stomach churning. First-tee nerves perhaps. But it was just a blip. Birdie at the second. Nerves settled. No need for a tummy tablet.

'Shrek': the show that leaves rivals green with envy

The Prince of Wales has been to meet the cast of Shrek the musical in London.

In a country where sheep outnumber humans 10 to one, a castrated merino named Shrek stood out from the flock. Found in a mountain cave in New Zealand after six years on the run, he sported a fleece so enormous that he resembled "some Biblical creature", his owner recalls.

Just before I started sixth form, my old school building was knocked down. This was not a problem, because we had a spiffy new one to move into. At the time, I was so gleeful that the Dickensian gymnasium had been reduced to rubble and the sports department crammed into a basement that I didn't really have time for nostalgia.

Am I imagining things, or has the world been taken over by kids' fantasy icons?

"I'm just a jolly green giant," moans Shrek at his son's birthday party.

The fourth Shrek film is an improvement on the third, not that anyone except DreamWorks' accountants ever thought that the first one needed any sequels at all.

This week the world's largest cruise ship made her maiden voyage. Harriet O'Brien was aboard

Cineworld has hailed resurgent advertising revenues and strong box-office sales from 3D movies this year, with Toy Story 3 alone bringing in £70m.

Quango upon quango has been consigned to the bonfire, but the Potato Council lives on.

TV tie-ins and book adaptations are pulling in younger audiences