Shaggy eyes third number one

Jamaican-born ragga artist Shaggy is on course to bag his third UK number one single, after selling almost four times as many copies as the current number one from Atomic Kitten.

Early sales figures show that Shaggy's It Wasn't Me sold 81,000 copies on its first day in the shops on Monday.

Atomic Kitten's Whole Again - which has been number one for four weeks - sold 21,917.

Shaggy - whose real name is Orville Richard Burrell - previously had chart-topping hits with Oh Carolina and Boombastic.

Manic Street Preachers, who released two new singles - So Why So Sad and Found That Soul - look likely to land the number three and four spots in the new chart on Sunday.

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Coppola to re-release Apocalypse Now

Director Francis Ford Coppola has announced his plan to re-release his 1979 anti-Vietnam war classic film Apocalypse Now.

Coppola has added nearly an hour of footage to the film and says it is "more romantic but more disturbing" than before.

Apocalypse Now stars Martin Sheen as a special agent sent into the Cambodian jungle on a mission to kill a renegade officer played by Marlon Brando.

The new version will be shown during the Cannes film festival in May and Coppola is currently seeking a US distributor for the film.

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'Record pay' for Harrison Ford

The New York Post reports that Harrison Ford will take home a record $25m (£17.3m) for 20 days work on his latest films.

This figure works out at $2,600 (£1,800) a minute, if he works eight-hour days.

This would break the per-day record set by Marlon Brando, who got $3m (£2.07m) for four days work on Superman.

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Distinguished poet AR Ammons dies at 75

The American poet AR Ammons who started writing poetry as a serviceman during WWII and has won nearly every major US poetry award, has died.

The poet, who was also professor of English and poetry at Cornell University, died of cancer.

He published nearly 30 books of poetry, among them Ommateum in 1955 and Glare in 1997, which was described as echoing Emerson and Whitman in its treatment of nature and the soul.

Novelist Robert Morgan said Ammons was: "One of the most distinctive voices in American poetry - there is no one like him."

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Hannibal Lecter is not coming to dinner

Movie cannibal Hannibal Lecter is Britain's least wanted dinner guest, according to a new poll.

Over a quarter of 3,436 people who entered the poll by interactive television company Open, said Lecter would be their nightmare dinner guest.

Strict Weakest Link quiz hostess Anne Robinson came in at number two, with 18% of the vote, beating EastEnder Nick Cotton and shock-rocker Marilyn Manson.

Controversial rap singer Eminem came in at number nine just before pop star Britney Spears.

Tory leader William Hague came in at number 12 - making him a more popular dinner date than Tony Blair.

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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."