A couple in England who hanged a dog because they did not want to pay to have it put down have been spared jail.

Murder at Shandy Hall: The Coachford poisoning case

Now let’s see if we got this right: director Winterbottom makes a film - within a film - of one of literature’s least filmable books, some say least readable: Laurence Stern’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.

The British director Michael Winterbottom is attempting to film what has been described as one of the greatest but least filmable novels ever written in the English language.