Actress and writer Meera Syal's novel about an Indian family living in the English Midlands in the l970s comes to the screen ... with nothing much to commend it.

ALL that glitters definitely isn’t gold. In this case, it’s more like soot - painfully written, horribly acted, and awkwardly directed.

Farmers’ leaders today called the BBC ‘‘irresponsible’’ for screening the thriller Fields of Gold which dealt with the issue of genetically modified crops.

Mariah Carey has attended a screening of her new film Glitter in Los Angeles.