David Cameron's much-touted digital economy is taking off while the rest of the economy lags behind.

Emeli Sande's debut album Our Version Of Events is the biggest-selling album so far this year, despite having already sold 1.4 million copies last year.

Adele is the wealthiest young musician in Britain with an estimated fortune of £30 million, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.

Announcement follows tickets for earlier show selling out in matter of minutes

The novelists Stella Duffy (who is gay) and Julia Crouch (who is not) discuss issues of identity and authenticity that can arise when your lead character is a lesbian – and why authors should simply ignore them all

For a band routinely dismissed as effete, the Smiths were always a surprisingly muscular rock'n'roll entity, whose musical heft created the liberty for the gladioli-thrashing freak at the front to carry on camping. Like the Rolling Stones with Quentin Crisp as lead singer.

Emeli Sandé, happily, doesn't look like an identikit winner, but she does sound an awful lot like Adele

Queen of sultry pop Lana Del Rey has a new rival. It is a sleek red Jaguar F-Type which competes for attention with the singer in her new music video "Burning Desire".

Queen of sultry pop Lana Del Rey has a new rival. It is a sleek red Jaguar F-Type which competes for attention with the singer in her new music video "Burning Desire".

The fast-rising band Mumford & Sons led the way for British acts at the Grammy Awards, where global star Adele also triumphed.

Adele beat off stiff competition from Rihanna, Carly Rae Jepsen and Katy Perry to scoop best pop solo performance at the Grammy Awards and lead the British charge.

Just as he was, by all accounts, an unpleasant man blessed with enviably beautiful gifts, so do Tim Hardin's songs clothe often unwelcome sentiments in gorgeous melodies.

There's a fine line between "effortless" and "lazy", and A$AP Rocky walks it with nonchalant ease.

There's a fine line in everything. Perhaps the most dangerous one in American roots music divides "tasteful" from "polite".