The Book Club is dead! Long live The School for Gifted Children! Robin Ince's Book Club, for the unacquainted, was a delightfully ramshackle evening of intellectual mirth and experimentation, which was given a grand farewell in December at the British Museum. Tonight The School for Gifted Children kickstarts the glorious sounding N20 Comedy Festival for show, stories, songs and outright lies in the dinky Studio 68 at Battersea Arts Centre. Robin Ince is in......

7. The Brentford Griffin Picture the scene: it’s a summer’s day in 1984, and Kevin Chippendale is strolling along Braemer Road, Brentford, when something suddenly catches his eye flying near to the Green Dragon apartment building. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a Griffin! But aren’t such flying wonders merely creatures of mythology? Well you may scoff at such a sighting, but for a short while the soaring oddity that......

Billie Piper is all set to slip into Belle de Jour's gusset! Here's the scoop direct from the diary of a London call girl: Finally - it's official - Billie's on board, and you can expect to see Belle the series on ITV2 this autumn. I couldn't be more excited, and I know the writers and actors and everyone else will do a great job. Hurrah! Hurrah! indeed. Now all the people who have......