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Doctor Who takes three prizes at the National Television Awards in a repeat of its success last year...
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The Rolling Stones postpone a show in the US to allow singer Sir Mick Jagger time to rest his voice...
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Doctor Who takes three prizes at the National Television Awards in a repeat of its success last year...
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Doctor Who takes three prizes at the National Television Awards in a repeat of its success last year...
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A musical about the witches from The Wizard of Oz breaks West End box office records, its producers say...
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Doctor Who takes three prizes at the National Television Awards in a repeat of its success last year...
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Doctor Who takes three prizes at the National Television Awards in a repeat of its success last year...
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The Rolling Stones postpone a show in the US to allow singer Sir Mick Jagger time to rest his voice...
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Veteran game show host Bob Barker is stepping down from hosting The Price is Right after 35 years...
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Singer George Michael lends the piano on which John Lennon wrote Imagine to an anti-war exhibition...
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Classical singer Russell Watson postpones his forthcoming UK tour after undergoing brain surgery...
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Classical singer Russell Watson postpones his forthcoming UK tour after undergoing brain surgery...
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Pioneering screenwriter Nigel Kneale, best known for the Quatermass TV serials and films, dies aged 84...
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Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen reportedly signs a $42.5m (£22m) film deal starring his character Bruno...
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Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen reportedly signs a $42.5m (£22m) film deal starring his character Bruno...
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Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen reportedly signs a $42.5m (£22m) film deal starring his character Bruno...
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Pioneering screenwriter Nigel Kneale, best known for the Quatermass TV serials and films, dies aged 84...
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Pioneering screenwriter Nigel Kneale, best known for the Quatermass TV serials and films, dies aged 84...
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Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen reportedly signs a $42.5m (£22m) film deal starring his character Bruno...
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Social networking site MySpace is to block users from uploading copyrighted music to its pages...
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Social networking site MySpace is to block users from uploading copyrighted music to its pages...
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Singer George Michael lends the piano on which John Lennon wrote Imagine to an anti-war exhibition...
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Jonathan Ross is dubbed "risque" by Ofcom but not in breach of rules over an interview with David Cameron...
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Jonathan Ross is dubbed "risque" by Ofcom but not in breach of rules over an interview with David Cameron...
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Jonathan Ross is dubbed "risque" by Ofcom but not in breach of rules over an interview with David Cameron...
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Colombia's vice president is "baffled" by Kate Moss's success following cocaine allegations...
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Jonathan Ross is dubbed "risque" by Ofcom but not in breach of rules over an interview with David Cameron...
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Social networking site MySpace is to block users from uploading copyrighted music to its pages...
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Social networking site MySpace is to block users from uploading copyrighted music to its pages...
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A musical about the witches from The Wizard of Oz breaks West End box office records, its producers say...
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Alec Baldwin asks for his voice to be removed from an "unfair" documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger...
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Alec Baldwin asks for his voice to be removed from an "unfair" documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger...
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Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen reportedly signs a $42.5m (£22m) film deal starring his character Bruno...
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Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen reportedly signs a $42.5m (£22m) film deal starring his character Bruno...
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Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen reportedly signs a $42.5m (£22m) film deal starring his character Bruno...
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Social networking site MySpace is to block users from uploading copyrighted music to its pages...
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Social networking site MySpace is to block users from uploading copyrighted music to its pages...
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Social networking site MySpace is to block users from uploading copyrighted music to its pages...
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Jonathan Ross is dubbed "risque" by Ofcom but not in breach of rules over an interview with David Cameron...
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The Rolling Stones cancel a gig in Hawaii and postpone other tour dates as Mick Jagger suffers throat troubles...
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A musical about the witches from The Wizard of Oz breaks West End box office records, its producers say...
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The first stage of a £150m investment in regional museums is praised for boosting visitor numbers...
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The first stage of a £150m investment in regional museums is praised for boosting visitor numbers...
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The first stage of a £150m investment in regional museums is praised for boosting visitor numbers...
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Pioneering screenwriter Nigel Kneale, best known for the Quatermass TV serials and films, dies aged 84...
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Pop trio Atomic Kitten will reform to play a concert in support of jailed Liverpool football fan Michael Shields...
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The Rolling Stones postpone a show in the US to allow singer Sir Mick Jagger time to rest his voice...
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Pioneering screenwriter Nigel Kneale, best known for the Quatermass TV serials and films, dies aged 84...
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Pioneering screenwriter Nigel Kneale, best known for the Quatermass TV serials and films, dies aged 84...
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William Styron, whose Holocaust novel Sophie's Choice became a film and an opera, has died, aged 81...
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A musical about the witches from The Wizard of Oz breaks West End box office records, its producers say...
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A musical about the witches from The Wizard of Oz breaks West End box office records, its producers say...
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A musical about the witches from The Wizard of Oz breaks West End box office records, its producers say...
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A musical about the witches from The Wizard of Oz breaks West End box office records, its producers say...
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