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Dim the lights, turn the smoke machine up to Epic, for here strutting across the internet with bouffant backcombed and leather trousers a-squeaking comes the trailer for Adam Shankman's Rock of Ages.

The talented and idiosyncratic character actor Roger Lloyd Pack, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 69, achieved national recognition, and huge popularity, as Colin "Trigger" Ball, the lugubrious Peckham road sweeper in John Sullivan's brilliantly acted comedy series Only Fools and Horses. He appeared alongside David Jason's Del Boy and Nicholas Lyndhurst's "plonker" Rodney

Rachel Bellesen shot and killed her ex-partner after he attacked her and tried to rape her. What followed was a public trial that would test the lengths necessary to prove self-defense, even after a lifetime of domestic abuse

An examination of the 200-year-old history of the notion of normal and its power to alienate and oppress Are you Norma, Typical Woman? With that headline, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, an Ohio newspaper, launched a contest in 1945 to discover the woman whose body matched an alabaster statue, Norma, sculpted by Abram Belskie and American

Alan Carrs breezy sitcom about his childhood is delightfully riddled with double entendres, plus a darkly amusing Aussie crime drama Most 80s coming-out stories tend to be riddled with trauma and shadowed by looming tragedy. But Alan Carr was never likely to go down that route in this breezy, double entendre-strewn comedy about his childhood