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Rather than spend his money on sex, drugs and rock and roll, singer Louis Tomlinson of boy band One Direction has bought English League One side Doncaster Rovers, the club he grew up supporting as a boy. The club announced on Thursday that Tomlinson, who signed for Doncaster on a non-contract basis in 2013 and played for their reserve side earlier this year, would assume ownership with cosmetic surgery magnate John Ryan from Terry Bramall, Dick Watson and David Blunt.

Bold visionary or suicidal maniac It’s early 70s Belfast, and there’s Terri Hooley – a man with one glass eye, no money, far too many records and a taste for the drink – deciding, at the height of the horrific violence that came to be euphemistically called “The Troubles”, to open a record store, right in the heart of what was then the most extensively bombed square-mile in Europe. The streets Largely empty, aside from police, soldiers and assorted armed thugs wearing balaclavas.

Ian Anderson is packing his trademark flute for a trip to the “bottom of the world”. Today Jethro Tull have announced a New Zealand tour, playing shows in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch in December

The Broadcasting Standards Authority has declined a complaint by Te Kohanga Reo National Trust Board against a report on Maori Television. Last September, Maori TV programme Native Affairs reported concerns about the governance and management of the trust.

Mick Jagger’s womanising ways contributed to L’Wren Scott’s depression, her estranged sister has said. The accusation comes a week after the rocker was pictured enjoying a rendezvous, with a Scott look-alike, in Switzerland

Actor Michael Jace, who is charged with killing his wife, called and told his father-in-law about the shooting and asked him to come for the couple’s two young children soon after it happened, a 911 call indicates. In the three-minute call, the father of April Jace told a dispatcher that his son-in-law had called and texted him about the shooting

It’s time for reality show contestants to wise up, lower their expectations and realise they are just a cheaply paid one-season cast member on a TV series. Revelations by former MasterChef contestant Jules Allen on the ABC’s Australian Story on Monday night that she was used up and spat out by the cooking show should come as no surprise

Kim and Kanye did it as flamboyantly as possible, Brad and Angelina may have done it in secret, George wants to do it in a castle, but Beyonce and Jay Z may be about to undo it.

Kim and Kanye did it as flamboyantly as possible, Brad and Angelina may have done it in secret, George wants to do it in a castle, but Beyonce and Jay Z may be about to undo it.