The newspapers have outdone themselves with an eclectic collection of April Fools' Day japes, but were you taken in?

Why is the record industry failing to nurture more urban female singing talent? Matilda Egere-Cooper blames stereotyping

Tracey Emin, John Barrowman, Dame Vera Lynn and Ronnie Corbett are just some of the big names 'lending a paw' to raise money for the Cats Protection feline welfare charity.

He's the Punjabi-Sikh from Hounslow who speaks like Hugh Grant and gave up medicine to become an R&B sensation. But now that Jay Sean is the highest-selling British male artist in America since Elton John, can his success really eradicate racial stereotyping?

The young man and the sea

Alesha Dixon has dismissed criticism that she is not qualified to judge Strictly Come Dancing's contestants as "nonsense" and said she has been left "wounded" by the backlash against her.

59-year-old with an artificial hip demonstrates that age is no barrier to success – nearly

Alesha Dixon was helping to warm up the Wimbledon crowds today at the Robinsons Mini Court.