A 69-strong syndicate of ambulance staff taking a share of a £1 million lottery windfall have insisted that work is more important than even a £143 million jackpot win.

Royal wedding protesters have lost their High Court claim that they were the victims of unlawful searches and arrests.

The 10th album by Nasir Jones will be talked about for three main reasons.

As a teenager, I collected dozens of photo booth pictures of me and my friends. After pulling a series of silly faces (tongues out, finger glasses, devil horns – all the classics), we would wait breathlessly for them to develop. Then along came the single-photo kiosk that issued four identical images and ruined everyone's fun.

I caught sight of a rather unusual list on a work friend's notepad recently. I won't go into the graphic details, but she was compiling a list of synonyms for the male member. After having a good goggle at it (and suggesting a few additions), I asked why she'd put penis to paper. It was all in aid of a forthcoming hen night, she explained, where each attendee would be given an alternative name for the night, chosen from the fruits of her labour. There was also going to be a stripper from the Full Monty school of disrobement. Luckily, I don't know the hen in question, so won't be invited to the festivities (and if I was, I'd already be compiling my own list – of excuses as to why I couldn't come).

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The Royal Ballet's outgoing director leaves a surprisingly short – and white – company

As if Tom Cruise weren't already suffering from Small Man Syndrome, pictures emerged yesterday of his newly estranged wife, Katie Holmes, wearing heels for what must be the first time since their union. On the Big Day itself, you'll recall, speculation was rife that Holmes had had to stand in a ditch to achieve parity of titchiness for the pair's wedding photo.

1 Not tipping (especially in Italian cafes)

Just as Stuart Lancaster was thinking his way through the most challenging team selection of his short career as England head coach – should he commit to wholesale changes in his back row for Saturday's third and final meeting with South Africa while also tinkering with his tight unit and his combination out wide? – the Springbok hierarchy were crystal clear about the immediate way ahead.

After shrugging off a stomach infection in the week before Scotland's 37-25 win over Fiji to play almost an hour of the game in the searing heat, back row John Barclay has been allowed to head home from the national team's tour before the final game.

What better way to celebrate the Cultural Olympiad than by staging the late, great Pina Bausch's searching, spectacular portraits of 10 world cities?

Tartan and kilts are ditched in an austere production of Donizetti's blockbuster. Meanwhile, predatory women toy with the Don and a hellcat Elettra prowls a Georgian drawing room

As it turned out, yesterday's Diamond Jubilee pageant was even more quintessentially British than anyone could have hoped for. Not because of the waving Royals and the vast crowds that turned out to see them. Not because of the seemingly endless sartorial permutations of the Union Flag. Not even because of all the limp sandwiches and bad cakes. All that was never in doubt. It was the weather that did us truly proud.