The bed bug . . . terrible tales of infestations. Photograph: Biodisc/Visuals Unlimited/Corb Introducing the eclectic items on yesterday’s show Jeremy Vine (Radio 2) explained that a listener was speed-reading Tony Blair’s book, and that the show would also discuss fines for sleeping... 

“Not in torment” . . . Jonathan Ross. Photograph: Brian J. Ritchie/Hotsauce / Rex Towards the end of his nearly 11-year Radio 2 hegemony on Saturday, Jonathan Ross played Creep by Radiohead. You can’t help but note the words. Thom Yorke has such nice diction. “I’m... 

(Photo: Pamela Springsteen) Sheriff’s detectives in Los Angeles are checking extortion allegations against Mel Gibson’s ex-girlfriend. Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore says the agency is looking into whether Russian singer Oksana Grigorieva may have tried to extort the Academy... 

Follow that ape . . . Mountain Gorilla. Photograph: BBC NHU/Graham MacFarlane/BBC NHU I feel like I know the Virunga volcanoes of central Africa quite well. I’ve been there often, without having left the sofa, obviously, to see the gorillas. I actually recognise some of them, they’ve...