Happy Valley fans waited seven years for a third series. The reason? So actor Rhys Connah, who was a young boy when he first played Ryan, could grow up. He says returning to the TV show in his teens has been a very different experience.

Guitarist Tom Verlaine, who rose to fame in the 1970s New York punk scene as the frontman of rock band Television, has died at the age of 73.

Kanye West has been named as the suspect in a battery investigation.

An Elton John fan on a bus back to the city after the concert was cancelled due to Auckland’s severe weather event on Friday has described the moment it started filling with floodwaters.

Rick Astley is suing rapper Yung Gravy for using an alleged impersonation of his voice on a recent single.

Taylor Swift surprised fans on Thursday by announcing a music video was being released for her song Lavender Haze.

You might know her from the Mean Girls musical or HBO’s teen drama The Sex Lives Of College Girls – but Reneé Rapp isn’t too fussed about being an actress.

Hollywood star Drew Barrymore has criticised organisers of the Razzies awards for “bullying” a child actor.

Indie rock band The Reytons have scored their first ever UK number one album with their self-release What’s Rock And Roll?

British actress Sylvia Syms, a star of stage and screen for six decades, has died at the age of 89.

Scottish actor Alan Cumming said on Friday he was giving back his OBE – Officer of the Order of the British Empire – award, saying his eyes had been “opened” over “the toxicity of empire”.

This year’s One Love Festival in Tauranga has been cancelled due to forecasted rain and weather-related travel disruption in Auckland.