“It lives and breathes its home city” … Belfast Citybeat. Photograph: Richard Cummins/© Richard Cummins/CORBIS Belfast’s Citybeat 96.7 is a hugely successful local station, as its trophy cabinet full of Sony Golds and Arqiva awards suggests. It lives and breathes its home... 

(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... 

A new mobile music service aims to give listeners access to their entire music collection. Photograph: John Howard/Getty Images A groundbreaking mobile music service that will allow music-lovers to access their entire music collection on the move, at work or on their mobile phone, will launch... 

Marilyn Monroe: the star among stars who brought ‘new radiance’ to the concept of celebrity. Photograph: SAM SHAW / Rex Features Academics today are required to be popular: new funding criteria for universities measure the “impact” of their staff. What better way for academics...