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The venue: The Thomas Cubitt, in Elizabeth Street, Belgravia. It was recommended to me by a diary editor, who told me that everyone was going there. It's much better than a typical gastro-pub.

Radio 1, your boys took one hell of a beating. Emperor Rosko, Tony Blackburn, Fluff Freeman, Ed Stewart, Pete Murray and the rest of the all-male presenting team that launched Radio 1 in 1967, have one-by-one parted company with the network. But Annie Nightingale is still there.

The High Court today refused to ban a book which reveals that Top Gear's The Stig is racing driver Ben Collins.

The BBC is facing the threat of strikes after thousands of journalists, technicians and other staff voted massively in favour of industrial action in a row over pensions, it was announced today.

Coronation Street is to broadcast a live episode as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, soap bosses have confirmed.

The High Court today refused to grant a temporary injunction preventing the revelation of the identity of Top Gear's The Stig.

Shed Media said it overcame a "turbulent" television market in the first half of the year as it reported a 22 per cent rise in adjusted pre-tax profits.

Adrian Chiles attacked the BBC today and said he and Christine Bleakley were portrayed as greedy and put under "intolerable pressure" over their decision to quit the corporation.

A bid to prevent the revelation of the identity of Top Gear's mystery driver The Stig began in private at the High Court today.

Jonathan Ross is to return to the BBC less than three months after his high-profile departure, to host a movie awards show, it was announced today.

In 1995, an American software developer was told by an attendant at Honolulu airport to take the "Wiki Wiki Shuttle" that connects the airports two terminals. The word is Hawaiian for "fast". On returning to the US mainland, Ward Cunningham named his website "WikiWikiWeb". It allowed computer programmers to share and edit each other's code, the first website of its type.

The BBC and ITV's Saturday night ratings war is at an end, the controller of BBC1, Jay Hunt, has signalled, saying she would no longer be alarmed if her network ceased to be Britain's most popular channel.

In his MacTaggart Lecture a year ago, James Murdoch, son of Rupert and head of the Murdoch empire in Britain, accused the BBC of mounting a "land grab", and described its ambitions as "chilling".

EastEnders set in a Brazilian favela, perhaps, or an American actor playing Doctor Who? This could be the future of programmes in a new, leaner BBC described yesterday by its director general, who is this weekend wrestling with critical press, worried staff and the threat of a reduced licence fee.

Having a go at MCC is like bowling to KP; it's too easy. Four decades ago there was the D'Oliveira affair, when England's MCC selectors refused to pick the naturalised Cape coloured all-rounder for a tour of South Africa after bowing to pressure from its apartheid government. There's also the fact that the owners of Lord's didn't allow female members until 1998, a mere 211 years after they were founded. As Quentin Letts points out in What's the Point of... Marylebone Cricket Club (BBC Radio 4, Tuesday): "When the Aussies think you're mistreating the Sheilas, you really do have a problem."

They are the Generation Net, whose toddler years have spawned countless mummy blogs, whether they liked it or not. Now, they're getting their own back. Children as young as three are turning to blogging to tell their side of the story.

Is Jeff Randall leaving The Daily Telegraph?

The BBC's director-general Mark Thompson last night warned that BSkyB would soon be "dwarfing" the corporation and lambasted the satellite broadcaster for failing to "pull its weight" by investing in British programming.

TV bosses have cooked up a plan to spice up a long-running cookery programme.

Anna Chapman, the glamorous figure at the centre of this summer's US-Russia spy scandal, has been threatened with legal action over a photo-shoot that marked her first foray into Russian public life after a high-profile prisoner swap.