A new decade-long Harry Potter television series has been ordered by US streaming service Max, it has been announced. The series will be a “faithful adaptation” of the world famous books written by JK Rowling, who will serve as executive producer.

A first edition hardback copy of Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone is expected to fetch up to £150,000 when it goes under the hammer in November.

The former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she fatally shot Daunte Wright has been sentenced to two years in prison.

A prosecutor has told the manslaughter trial of a Minnesota police officer who killed Daunte Wright that Kim Potter violated her training and “betrayed a 20-year-old kid”.

The original cast of the Harry Potter series will be reunited 20 years after the first film screened to recount their magical journeys. An HBO Max special titled Return to Hogwarts will be released on January 1 2022, the network has said.

Behind-the-scenes photos from the Harry Potter films are to go on display in a new exhibition. The Harry Potter Photographic Exhibition will open to the public next month in Covent Garden, central London.

Harry Potter fans have returned to the cobbled streets of Diagon Alley and the Great Hall of Hogwarts as the Warner Bros Studio Tour welcomed guests for the first time since December 2020.

A statue of Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter in flight has been unveiled in London’s Leicester Square.

A statue of Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter will join a collection of famous characters from cinema history in London’s Leicester Square.

A virtual version of the Hogwarts Express has departed King’s Cross as part of the first online Back To Hogwarts Day.

Harry Potter fans are being asked not to congregate at King’s Cross station on September 1 for the annual Back To Hogwarts celebration and instead attend a virtual celebration online.

Olivia Colman, Tom Hardy and David Harewood are among the celebrities who have lent their voices to a new edition of British writer Beatrix Potter’s beloved works.