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Gollum actor Andy Serkis is about to embark on a continuous, live reading of The Hobbit – lasting around 12 hours – and he’s promised to do “all the voices”.

Dame Vera Lynn has performed her most iconic hit We’ll Meet Again many times since she first sang it for the troops during World War Two and it became embedded as an anthem of hope in British life.

A new Banksy artwork paying tribute to NHS workers has appeared in a hospital corridor.

The real chief of the US Space Force had hoped Bruce Willis would have played him in the upcoming Netflix show lampooning the military’s newest branch of service – instead of comic actor Steve Carell.

Scientists have challenged a key plot point of the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park with new research suggesting raptors hunted alone rather than in packs.

Florian Schneider, co-founder and keyboardist of seminal German electro group Kraftwerk, has died aged 73.

Tributes are being paid to Jamaican singer Millie Small, most famous for her 1960s hit My Boy Lollipop, who has died at the age of 72.

Grimes has attempted to explain the meaning behind the unusual name given to her newborn son, X Æ A-12 Musk.

Adele has thanked health and essential worker “angels” in an Instagram message marking her birthday.

The coronavirus pandemic will be included in future episodes of Coronation Street but will be “handled with a light touch”, the soap’s producer has said.