An unemployed man who accused X Factor judge Louis Walsh of groping him in a nightclub has appeared in court charged with inventing the story.

Westlife have left Simon Cowell's record label Syco.

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This stage-schooled quintet have already justified their existence by inspiring the immortal headline "the Wanted attacked by window-licker".

“Well, well, well,” vocalist Theo Hutchcraft purrs darkly. He’s clad in a sharp suit and white shirt buttoned up to the collar, his scraped-back hair emphasising his strikingly pale skin and angular jaw. “There are lots of people here,” he muses, smiling seductively and gesturing to the jostling crowd with all the new-wave charm of a man who’s just stepped out of 1981.

When the opera star Bryn Terfel appealed to his Faenol Festival audience to dig deep in order to keep the event afloat, it was a sure sign of a wider struggle. Simon Tait and Elisa Bray report

It's like they've never been away. Which, given the continuing existence of Westlife, they arguably haven't.

On its release today, the Haiti fundraiser is likely to top the pops. Nina Lakhani spins the best and worst of philanthropic singles

For decades, megastars have felt the ignominy of coming second to a festive novelty record

Tributes were last night paid to the father of Westlife star Nicky Byrne, who died suddenly yesterday.

Reality TV star Kerry Katona was cautioned today for possessing cocaine.

Quentin Tarantino's new film, Inglourious Basterds, is out today. By all accounts it's awful – not just awful, actually, but tedious, gratuitously violent, over-long and the plot, they say, is downright daft. It features several scalpings and a scene where a swastika is carved into someone's forehead. One critic has described it as "a colossal armour-plated turkey from hell".

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