Space drama Gravity is the film to beat at tonight's Baftas.

Condensed essays on individual novels are too short for academics and too analytical for the public, but will appeal to students, says Val Nolan

DARRAN McCANN

The Mill for Grinding Old People Young

THE WORDS “cat” and “cream” immediately spring to mind, when a beaming Michael Fassbender comes loping into the Dorchester Hotel in London this week.

ASK any successful writer how they got their first book deal and you will hear a different story.

Midway through Rally Ireland, the Irish bid for qualification for the World Rally Championship, Gareth MacHale and co-driver Paul Nagle in a Ford Focus WRC hold a 47.8 second lead over the Toyota Corolla WRC of Eugene Donnelly/Paul Kiely.

COMIC Dylan Moran and British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alistair Campbell are set to be the star attractions at this year’s Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival in Belfast.