The Jeremy Kyle Show is a "modern day freak show" which must stop revealing the identity of babies' parents on air, says an MP.

It's now as easy to open a lap dancing club as it is a coffee shop, in large parts of Britain. But there are growing objections among residents and women's rights campaigners.

Elaborate bra straps. Designer trunks riding above low-slung jeans. The fashion for flaunting one's underwear may have more to do with conspicuous consumption than a decline in decency, says Lisa Jardine.

It is the stuff of escapist fantasy. A tall, dark and handsome type sweeps a cream-and-roses Home Counties heroine off her feet. In its 100 years of publishing, the exotic alpha male has been a staple of the Mills and Boon romance.

Is an unmade bed art? How about a saucy seaside postcard - or even a slogan T-shirt? It's art to the person who thinks it expresses their life, says Katharine Whitehorn.

ITV's Jeremy Kyle Show is rapped by Ofcom for failing to bleep out a swear word during a morning broadcast.

MPs are calling for an advert showing two men kissing to be reinstated after it was pulled following complaints. More than two decades after the first gay kiss on teatime TV, a kiss is clearly not always just a kiss.

The "Get unhooked" advert aimed at getting people to quit smoking was the most complained about advert last year.

"China's attitude to sex is Victorian" - the BBC's Michael Bristow on life in Beijing

A filmmaker in northern Nigeria defies a ban on filming brought in by Islamic authorities after a sex scandal.

The sponsors of ITV1's The Jeremy Kyle Show cancel their £500,000-a-year deal over concerns about its content.

A judge brands The Jeremy Kyle Show as "a form of human bear-baiting" at a Manchester court case.

A councillor who secretly filmed a woman and two teenage girls using his bathroom is jailed.

Lawro says what he thinks about the FA Cup final, plus Mourinho & Warnock

Alastair Cook completes his fifth Test century as England dominate West Indies at Lord's.

The bestseller lists are full of memoirs about miserable childhoods and anguished families. Waterstone's even has a "Painful Lives" shelf. Why are authors confessing their hurt so freely and do readers find morbid enjoyment in them?

Vote for Derry's top boss. Stephen Kenny, Jim McLaughlin, Felix Healy or Kevin Mahon?

A film producer accused of grooming a young girl over the internet is cleared by a jury.

Hollywood movie Snakes on a Plane, starring Samuel L Jackson, premieres in the US after months of hype.

A man accused of using the internet to groom a young girl for sex, used chat rooms for titillation only, a court hears.