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A fancy-dress retailer is appealing against a ruling it must surrender its starwars.co.uk web address to Disney. For more than a decade, the Berkshire-based company has used the address to direct shoppers to a Star Wars section of its Jokers’ Masquerade store. But in July, Nominet, which oversees .uk domains, backed Disney’s ownership claim. The last time anyone successfully appealed ...

Ballet dancer Jonathan Ollivier has been killed in a motorbike accident, his family said. The 38-year-old, from Northampton, died hours before he was due to perform in the final show of The Car Man at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London. He was riding in central London when the accident happened, police said. His sister Rachel Ollivier wrote on Facebook that ...

Actor Benedict Cumberbatch has pleaded with fans outside the Barbican theatre in London not to film his stage performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In a video shot outside the stage door, Sherlock star Cumberbatch told a crowd of supporters about “cameras and red lights” he spotted in the audience. “It may not be any of you here but it’s blindingly obvious,” ...

Former Spice Girl Emma Bunton has denied the group have agreed to reunite for a tour next year. The Sun reported four of the five band members would be getting back together in 2016 – without Victoria Beckham – for an international tour. But on her radio show, Bunton insisted “nothing’s happening at the moment”. Journalist Dan Wootton, who broke ...

One Direction have topped the UK singles chart with their new single Drag Me Down. The track broke streaming records, earning the highest first-week streams for a single in the UK with 2.03m plays. Indie band The Maccabees have scored their first number one album with Marks To Prove It, just 1,300 copies ahead of Lianne La Havas’ Blood. Cilla ...

Bill Cosby will be questioned under oath in October as part of a civil legal case brought by a woman who accuses the comedian of sexually abusing her when she was 15. He will answer questions from Judy Huth’s lawyer on 9 October, while she will give her deposition a week later. Mr Cosby had been attempting to get Ms ...

Actor George Cole, best known for playing Arthur Daley in TV’s Minder, has died aged 90. Cole played the Cockney wheeler dealer Daley for 16 years, between 1979 and 1994. He also starred in a number of St Trinian’s films as shady businessman Flash Harry. Agent Derek Webster said Cole had died at the Royal Berkshire hospital following a short ...

Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has revealed that his new single features former inmates from the prison where his son served time. Gilmour recorded Rattle That Lock with The Liberty Choir, a rehabilitation project that includes former Wandsworth Prison inmates and local singers. The rock legend said the choir gives prisoners “real hope and optimism”. His son Charlie did time ...

Sky Atlantic is to show a controversial documentary on Scientology, despite pressure from the church. Alex Gibney’s Going Clear traces the origins of the organisation and profiles former members, including Oscar-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis. It has alleged abusive practices at Scientology’s US headquarters, which members have denounced as “one-sided, bigoted propaganda”. The film premiered to wide acclaim in the US ...

The body of Bobbi Kristina Brown has been taken to a New Jersey cemetery for burial next to mother Whitney Houston. A hearse took the body from a Newark funeral home as two vehicles carrying relatives – including singer Dionne Warwick – followed behind. Bobbi Kristina, 22, died at a hospice on 26 July, six months after she was found ...