Vicky Beeching said she has been overwhelmed by the support from friends, strangers and fellow Christians following her decision to reveal her sexuality in public for the first time.

Pundits on the BBC's Match of the Day have been told to be more "opinionated" and "animated" as the flagship football show begins its 50th anniversary season amid unprecedented levels of competition in sports broadcasting.

Robin Williams's daughter, Zelda, has excused herself from social media after receiving cruel and offensive messages following his death. The celebrated actor and comedian, who was 63, was found dead on Monday at his home in Tiburon, northern California, in an apparent  suicide. Ms Williams said she intended to delete the Twitter app from her devices “for a good long time, maybe forever,” after several users sent her graphic, Photoshopped images of her father.

Monty Python was my generation's atomic bomb I watched a lot of British shows when I was younger; Python in particular changed everything in comedy, as they didn't have to have endings for their sketches; they did something only for as long as it was funny. It was sort of Picasso discovering abstract art; a huge leap forward. They still hadn't caught up in the US even 20 years later. I did Saturday Night Live for four years in the late 1980s and we had to narratively end these sketches, even when I only had three minutes' worth of a funny idea.

An Aga cooker and a wetroom with sprinklers may not be textbook tools of internet-era publishing but they are central to a ground-breaking project aimed at freeing magazines from the financial shackles of the news-stand.

Faced with competition from supermarkets and falling newspaper sales, British newsagents are delivering the post to replenish their income.

Interviews to find the successor to Lord Patten as chair of the BBC Trust begin on Thursday amid deep concerns as to how the process is being conducted by the Government.

If ever there was an indication of the gulf that can exist between the tabloid press and real news it’s today’s front page of The Sun.

Tulisa Contostavlos, the former X Factor judge, has revealed that she tried to commit suicide last year after she was charged with supplying Class A drugs.

 “I believe strongly that the BBC has the best news organisation in the world,” said the broadcaster’s Director General Tony Hall, at the launch of its annual report last week. “Right across the Middle East,” he went on, “our coverage has been absolutely first rate.”

More than 20 years after he joined the BBC as an economics correspondent, Evan Davis still has to put up with detractors who would like to portray him as something of a softie.

Ken Clarke is a Big Beast in the political jungle. He is not physically imposing, like Tony Blair, or Clarke’s old ally Michael Heseltine – he is shorter and more rotund than they – but his immensely long career and the blunt confidence and common-sense language he uses to express what he thinks has made him metaphorically big, someone whose opinion cannot be ignored.