So here we are, at the end of all things, and what a cracker of a way to end one of the greatest movie saga’s ever created.

The heirs of late author JRR Tolkien are suing the producers of The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies over what they say is exploitative merchandising.

Sir Peter Jackson has denied any animal cruelty took place on 'The Hobbit' set.

Police found a kidnapped five-year-old girl alive and well, officers said today.

DOZENS of fearless competitors took part yesterday in one of England’s most bizarre and dangerous sporting challenges — chasing a giant cheese down a steep slope.

DIRECTOR Peter Jackson has been told he will not be hired to direct a movie based on JRR Tolkien novel The Hobbit, despite the nearly $3 billion (€2.3bn) global box office success of his Lord of the Ring trilogy that picked up 17 Oscars.

Denzel Washington is desperate to team up with King Kong director Peter Jackson on an ambitious upcoming film project.

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards is in hospital with concussion after a fall out of a palm tree while on holiday in Fiji, reports said today.

Pitcairn islander Mike Warren has said he believed the prosecutions of a number of men from the island on sex abuse charges were a British “set-up”.

Six Pitcairn islanders were convicted today of a string of sex attacks, following trials that exposed a culture of abuse on the remote British Pacific territory, home to descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers.

Half the men on remote Pitcairn Island, which is populated by descendants of the Bounty mutineers, go on trial tomorrow for a string of alleged sex attacks dating back up to 40 years.

Judges and lawyers are putting the final touches to preparations for a string of sex abuse trials that get under way on tiny Pitcairn Island later this week.

THE sex abuse trials of seven men from Pitcairn Island will begin on Monday, on the remote British outpost in the South Pacific that is home to the descendants of the Bounty mutineers.

The Scottish Rugby Union have confirmed they will play three provincial matches on their summer tour to Australia.

British-based pop star Daniel Bedingfield has been charged with careless use of a motor vehicle following a crash in which he fractured two vertebrae in his neck, police in Wellington, New Zealand said today.

Australian actress Naomi Watts is the prime candidate to play King Kong’s female friend in Peter Jackson’s remake of the 1930s movie, it was reported today.

SO Clinton Huppert has gone home to mama. Who the hell is Clinton Huppert? Exactly.

Tight security was enforced across Europe tonight on the eve of the anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the US.