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Digital radio switchover could stall for a decade unless the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú commits funding for transmitters, according to a commercial radio boss. , Paul Keenan, who oversees the Kiss and Magic stations, joins other commercial radio executives in demanding that the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú decide its funding levels for the local network of digital radio transmitters.

The dozens of celebrities, including actress Liz Hurley and singer Lily Allen, face possible court action over claims that they are endorsing luxury items on their internet blogs and Tweets without declaring that they have been paid by the companies concerned. The crackdown has been ordered by the Office of Fair Trading, which can take offenders to court.

The the phone-hacking scandal threatening to engulf the News of the World will intensify this week when the Metropolitan police hands over previously undisclosed documents. It says Scotland Yard has until Wednesday to comply with a court order obliging it to provide lawyers for the sports agent Skylet Andrew with material relating to the hacking of his phone.

David Miliband is considering a role in television. The the Labour leadership candidate, who lost out to his brother by the narrowest of margins last September, has approached the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú with programme ideas. "It is unclear whether Miliband wants to front one-off documentaries or a series, but it is thought all his proposals would involve him taking a starring role on screen."

Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú director general that EastEnders was "absolutely not" suggesting that the behaviour shown in its cot-death storyline was typical of a mother who has lost a child through Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. They write: "In his first interview with the Daily Mail, Thompson is keen to highlight what he says has been a transformation in Saturday night programmes, but also concedes that the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú has been damaged by the ageism furore and other very avoidable blunders."

Radio 3 has teamed up with academics at Goldsmiths College in London for a nationwide experiment to work out what makes us musical - personality or practice. The ''How Musical Are You?'' test is being launched to tie in with Radio 3's 12-day celebration of the music of Mozart in which the airwaves will be devoted to the composer, as the .

The Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's newspaper review says the shootings in Arizona continue to dominate the UK news agenda. Many papers speculate about whether the nature of the US political system was partly to blame.

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