Atomic Kitten dig claws into chart

The girl group Atomic Kitten have held onto the number one slot in the UK pop charts for the fourth week with their single Whole Again.

It is the longest-running number one since Westlife spent a month at the top 14 months ago with I Have A Dream/Seasons In The Sun.

Band members, Natasha Hamilton, 18, Liz McClarnon, 19 and new member Jenny Frost, 23, said: "It's absolutely fantastic."

The track is the fifth single to be released from the group's album and was reworked before it was released.

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£1m for future film-makers

Future film-makers will get the chance to start their careers early - thanks to a £1m scheme from the British Film Council.

The project will give those aged eight to 18 the chance to make films up to 10 minutes long, recorded on digital video.

It will give children the chance to work on all creative and technical aspects of the industry - from script-writing and editing to set construction and directing.

John Woodward, chief executive of the Film Council, said the scheme was essential to "build on the UK's already prolific skills and talent base."

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Star Trek star sets up drying-out house

William Shatner - who played Captain Kirk in Star Trek - has bought a house to use as a residential home for female recovering alcoholics in the memory of his late wife.

Nerine Shatner died in an alcohol-related accident in 1999.

The house will be a "sober living" facility and will have space for 11 women recovering from alcoholism.

"I wanted to salvage some meaning out of all that experience," the actor said. "I thought the best way to do that would be in Nerine's name to help other people."

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Bee Gees to record Radio 2 concert

Pop superstars the Bee Gees are to record a concert before just 300 guests for BBC Radio 2 next month.

The group have sold almost 110m albums worldwide are best known for their soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever which sold 25m copies.

This will be the only live gig this year for the band who brought the world classic tracks like Tragedy, How Deep Is Your Love and Jive Talkin'.

Radio 2 controller Jim Moir said: "It seems the obvious place for one of the world's most successful recording artists to perform for the country's most listened to radio station."

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Jude Law hit by shrapnel

The actor Jude Law has revealed that he was injured by shrapnel while filming the battle scenes for his latest film Enemy At The Gate.

The star was hit in the head by the metal fragment whilst filming the World War II epic in which he plays a Russian sniper.

Law spent four weeks at an SAS training camp preparing for the role and learning how to fire a rifle, along with co-star Joseph Fiennes.

He was not seriously hurt in the incident but said: "Those battle scenes were terrifying and but a little blood is part and parcel of the experience.