Long-serving Coronation Street star Julie Hesmondhalgh is leaving the soap after 15 years as TV favourite Hayley Cropper.

Southampton striker Billy Sharp has joined npower Championship side Nottingham Forest on a season-long loan.

Donald “Duck” Dunn, the bassist who helped create the gritty Memphis soul sound at Stax Records in the 1960s with the legendary group Booker T and the MGs and contributed to classics such as In the Midnight Hour, Hold On I’m Coming and Sitting On The Dock of The Bay, has died at 70.

A jury in Trinidad has sentenced two men to death by hanging for killing three people, one of them a former BBC anchorwoman, during a robbery.

Coronation Street’s Tracy and Roy are set to tie the knot in one of the soap world’s weirdest weddings.

A judge in eastern Australia today cleared two men of attempting to blackmail Oscar-winning film star Russell Crowe.

A man accused of attempting to blackmail Russell Crowe said the actor was a troublemaker, a court in Australia has been told.

Actor Russell Crowe is set to star in an Australian court as the real life victim of an alleged extortion plot.

An 18-year-old relative has been charged in Trinidad with the murder of a former BBC producer, her brother-in-law and her mother.

Bandits tied up and then hacked to death a former BBC producer, her mother and her British brother-in-law on the Caribbean island of Trinidad.