Blue Peter celebrates its 50th anniversary. BBC News website readers have been sending in their favourite memories of the show and their Blue Peter badge achievement stories.

Tall, slim and with flowing locks, Lara Masters modelled in her teens. But the work dried up as she developed a degenerative nerve condition.

Notes on a Scandal screenwriter Patrick Marber is bound for Hollywood - and the Oscars.

Johnny Depp stars in Pirates of the Caribbean, a film based on a ride of the same name at Disneyland theme park.

When Ian McEwan gave away 30 novels in five minutes to passers-by in a park, every woman accepted but only one man did. What happened when we did the same?

Which places are the winners and losers in this year's Lonely Planet travel guide to the UK?

Have your say on Madonna's album American Life.

This Saturday morning, viewers on digital satellite have another chance to see Breakfast special coverage this week on disability issues. Click here to find out more.

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Send us your views on Paul McCartney's new album.

The BBC's Tom Brook reports from Hollywood on a new wave of psychological horror films, such as Catherine Zeta Jones' The Haunting and The Blair Witch Project.