Timberlake show off in safety fear

A sell-out US concert by Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera has been cancelled due to a lighting grid collapsing and injuring three workers.

Officials were investigating the cause of the incident at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey - the second at the site in three years.

Three stagehands sustained minor injuries when the large aluminium device collapsed.

About 30 people had been working beneath when the grid buckled and lurched downwards.

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Jolie speaks of family rift

Tomb Raider star Angelina Jolie has spoken about how she has lost contact with her father, actor Jon Voight.

Jolie told the Radio Times magazine she had not spoken to Voight for months and said: "I no longer see us as father and daughter."

Voight and Jolie's mother split up when she was one year old, but the actress later built a relationship and starred in the first Lara Croft film with him.

But she told the magazine how he wrote her a letter saying she was "a bad person" and she no longer values his opinion.

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Carlyle to star in royal drama

Filming has begun in Bucharest on a major BBC drama about Mary Queen Of Scots, James I and the Gunpowder Plot.

The four-part BBC Two series, by award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern, stars Robert Carlyle as James and French newcomer Clemence Poesy as Mary.

Titled Gunpowder, Treason and Plot, it also features Kevin McKidd, Emilia Fox, Tim McInnerney, Catherine McCormack, Richard Coyle, Daniella Nardini and Paul Nicholls.

Filmed on location in Romania, it tells of Mary's short-lived reign and the battles she had to fight with her Protestant subjects and the English Queen, Elizabeth I (McCormack).

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Strip show TV networks censured

Two TV channels have been criticised by broadcasting regulators for shows in which viewers encouraged show hosts to strip.

Both British satellite channels - Tantalise TV and Friendly TV - invited text messages suggesting what the female presenters should do on screen.

The Independent Television Commission said the stations, which aired the shows unencrypted, breached broadcasting rules.

And it warned both that they faced sanctions if there were any other similar breaches.

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Creamfields safety plan improved

Dance festival Creamfields has unveiled a host of improved security measures designed to make this year's event the safest yet.

Organisers said enhanced lighting, better fencing and increased policing levels should further reduce crime.

The event on 23 August at Old Liverpool Airfield, Speke, Merseyside, is expected to attract more than 40,000 dance fans.

Creamfields said during the past six years it has statistically been one of the safest of all UK festivals.

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Blu stays top of charts

Soul singer Blu Cantrell has kept hold of the UK singles chart for the second week with the song Breathe, featuring reggae singer Sean Paul.

The song beat off a rash of competitors, with Ultrabeat's Pretty Green Eyes at number two, Cheeky Girls' Hooray Hooray at number three and Mark Owen's Four Minute Warning at number four, all in their first week.

Pharrell Williams and Jay Z's Frontin' was at number seven, and J Nevins' I'm in Heaven at number nine.