Two people who admitted selling fake prints they claimed were the work of graffiti artist Banksy receive 12-month suspended sentences.
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Victoria Wood arranges an open audition in Manchester to find boys to play the young Eric and Ernie in a BBC film.
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Heather Mills’ former nanny loses an unfair dismissal and sex discrimination case against her former employer.
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The appeal to the vessel was made during Jonathan Ross’s morning showCoastguards turned to Jonathan Ross's Radio 2 show for help after a boat skipper blocked an international distress channel.
Dover coastguards said the crew left a microphone on while off the Kent coast, blocking radio channel 16, which is reserved for emergency calls.
Ross's radio show could be heard in the background so staff called the BBC, which made the appeal in a news item.
The coastguard said the vessel blocked the channel for about three hours.
It later moved out of range as it travelled north into the Thames coastguard area.
It is not known whether the crew heard the broadcast, but Dover coastguard said it had not heard of any further problems.
"Unfortunately this happens quite a lot and we normally track down the vessel using direction finding but in this case we could not, so we approached the BBC," said a coastguard spokesman.
A BBC spokeswoman said: "As the boat had Radio 2 playing in the background, the Radio 2 newsreader made the on-air appeal at the next opportunity, which was the midday news within Jonathan Ross's show.
"We were happy to be of service."
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Painting was also a scriptwriter on the BBC programmeActors and broadcasters have gathered to pay tribute to the late Norman Painting, best known for playing Phil Archer in BBC Radio 4's The Archers.
Painting, who died aged 85 last year, had played the Ambridge farmer since the show's trial run in 1950.
A service of thanksgiving for the Leamington Spa-born actor was held at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London's Trafalgar Square.
Actor and presenter Stephen Fry and ex-Prime Minister John Major attended.
‘Versatile broadcaster’
Another former Conservative leader Michael Howard was also in the congregation.
Cast members and other friends and colleagues attended the service.
Among those who read or gave a tribute were Fry, Ysanne Churchman Pilgrim, who played Grace Archer in the 1950s, and Vanessa Whitburn, editor of The Archers.
Patricia Greene (Jill Archer), Trevor Harrison (Eddie Grundy), Alison Dowling (Elizabeth Pargetter) and Tim Bentinck (David Archer) were also among those who contributed.
Painting's last scenes were recorded just two days before he died in October.
He was also a scriptwriter on the BBC programme from 1966 to 1982 and wrote 1,198 scripts.
Bladder cancer
In latter years his appearances on The Archers became more limited as he suffered poor health, including a heart condition.
Painting, who lived in Oxfordshire, was diagnosed with bladder cancer several years ago, but said it would not stop him doing "what I love".
He was appointed an OBE in the 1970s and penned an autobiography titled Reluctant Archer.
One of his most hard-hitting storylines was when Grace, Phil's first wife, died in a barn fire in 1955, though in recent years the farmer enjoyed a peaceful retirement.
After handing over the farm to eldest son David in 2001, the character entertained listeners in his role as a grandfather.
When Painting's death was announced, Mark Thompson, BBC director general, said he was "deeply saddened".
Mr Thompson said Painting chose to leave a promising career in academia at Oxford to devote 60 years to BBC audiences, who regarded him as a "friend".
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The mother of a five-year-old girl with Down’s syndrome has criticised comedian Frankie Boyle for poking fun at people with the condition during a live show.
Sharon and Keiron Smith, of Hampshire, were sat in the front row of the star’s sold out gig in Reading’s Hexagon theatre when he made the jokes.
Mrs Smith said she told the comic she was upset but he told her she should have known what to expect at his show.
The former Mock The Week panellist refused to comment.
Mrs Smith, who has a daughter called Tanzie, said she was a fan of the comedian’s "dry, cutting, sense of humour" during his appearances on the BBC2 show.
‘Heart racing’
She told BBC Radio Five Live’s Victoria Derbyshire she had been enjoying the live show before Boyle joked about people with Down’s syndrome.
She said: "He made fun of their parents being old and out of touch, he made fun of the way people with Down’s syndrome speak.
"He made a number of references to people with Down’s syndrome dying early."
She added: "I have to say I had never heard him on Mock the Week poking fun of people with disabilities, it was not something I was aware of he did.
"We had obviously heard him making fun of other people, but quite often his humour appears to be clever humour or making a point about something.
"OK, he can be cutting, but he will often be using his humour to make a point, whereas the type of jokes he was making about people with Down’s syndrome I don’t see there was any point being made."
Mrs Smith said that during the whole segment her heart was racing and she wanted to cry but that most of the audience were laughing as far as she was aware.
She said Boyle noticed her talking to her husband and asked them what they were saying.
‘So nasty’
She wrote on her blog: "I told him that my five-year-old daughter has Downs syndrome and that I was simply upset at some of his jokes.
"He tried to laugh it off – ‘Ah, but it’s all true isn’t it? Everything I have said is true isn’t it?’ To which I replied ‘No, it wasn’t’.
"He then went on to say that it was the most excruciating moment of his career but then tried to claw the humour back by saying we had paid to come and see him and what should we expect?
"To which I replied that I understood that and that it was my personal problem/upset."
She said Boyle then embarked on an explanation to the audience of his background and why he he was "so nasty".
Last year Mock The Week’s producers were criticised by the BBC Trust over comments Boyle made about swimmer Rebecca Adlington’s appearance on the show.
Another complaint against Mock The Week, relating to a comment Boyle made about the Queen, was not upheld as a breach of editorial standards by the trust.
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Heather Mills has told an employment tribunal she fell out with her nanny after refusing to pay for her breast enlargement surgery.
Sara Trumble, 26, from West Sussex, is seeking compensation from Sir Paul McCartney’s ex-wife, alleging unfair dismissal and sex discrimination.
Ms Mills said they were "very close" but the relationship soured when she refused to give her £4,000 for surgery.
Ms Trumble’s solicitor accused Ms Mills of telling a "very unpleasant lie".
Ms Mills, from Robertsbridge, East Sussex, was cross-examined by solicitor Nick Fairweather on the third day of the hearing in Ashford, Kent.
He accused Ms Mills of making up the issue of cosmetic surgery as a way of explaining why Ms Trumble turned against her.
Ms Mills said: "I had a breast reduction when I was 21 and I couldn’t pick anything up for weeks because it was so painful.
"I didn’t criticise her wanting to have a breast enlargement, I just felt it would have been wrong of me to help with something that could have been a reaction to her boyfriend or her hormones."
Mr Fairweather said: "I suggest that you’re telling a very, very unpleasant lie."
Ms Mills rejected Mr Fairweather’s accusation.
Ms Trumble, from Westfield, was paid £260 a week to look after Ms Mills’s daughter Beatrice, now six.
The former nanny claims she was a loyal worker who was taken advantage of by the 42-year-old former model.
But Ms Mills told the tribunal that the staff working for her at her nine-bedroom house all supported one another and found her to be an understanding boss.
She said: "Our house, even in the most stressful times, was a very supportive environment."
She said of her relationship with Ms Trumble: "Sara and I have never had a cross word.
"I would never raise my voice to her and I have never been bad-tempered to her, ever, ever, ever."
Ms Mills was supported in her claims by her PA Sonya Webb, who described her boss of 10 years as a "more than fair employer".
She said: "In this claim, I feel that Sara is making issues where there really weren’t any."
Earlier, Ms Mills read a statement outside the tribunal.
She said: "It saddens me greatly that this case had to come to court.
"Sara was a young girl who I took under my wing and treated like my own daughter – I really cared for her – I believed she deserved so much more."
The hearing, which began on Monday, is expected to conclude later.
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Heather Mills has told an employment tribunal that she treated her former nanny "like a daughter".
Sara Trumble, 26, from West Sussex, is seeking compensation from Sir Paul McCartney’s ex-wife, alleging unfair dismissal and sex discrimination.
Giving evidence, Ms Mills said the pair got on so well she had even been asked to be godmother to Ms Trumble’s child.
Ms Trumble has said she was a loyal worker who was taken advantage of by the 42-year-old former model.
Ms Mills, from Robertsbridge, East Sussex, was giving evidence on the second day of the hearing in Ashford, Kent.
She said: ""I treated Sara like my daughter as she often complained that her mother was cold and distant to her.
‘No-one better’
"I spent much of my time consoling her, especially when she said she was having problems with her partner."
Ms Mills said that after her nanny had her baby "she asked me to be godmother to her daughter".
"She said it was because I had taken such good care of her and she could think of no-one better. I was delighted."
Ms Mills told the tribunal she had also given Ms Trumble £1,500 after she had some money stolen, as well as £500 for a deposit on a flat.
The former nanny, from Westfield, was paid £260 a week to look after Ms Mills’s daughter Beatrice, now six.
Earlier, Ms Trumble told the tribunal she had been close to her employer when she began her job in April 2004.
But Ms Trumble claimed Ms Mills became bad-tempered and rude following her split from Sir Paul.
She said: "Everyone had noticed it. Everyone was saying how difficult working conditions had become at at work. [It was] not a nice place to work."
Ms Trumble told the hearing that all the staff were under pressure to make sure Ms Mills’s new nine-bedroom home was ready for her when it was refurbished in August 2007.
She said: "Things had to be perfect for when Heather came back.
"Everyone was rushing around stressed."
The hearing, which began on Monday, is expected to last four days.
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Heather Mills’s former nanny has told an employment tribunal she was made to work long hours without extra pay.
Sara Trumble, 26, is seeking compensation from Sir Paul McCartney’s ex-wife, alleging unfair dismissal and sex discrimination
She said she felt she was a hard-working and loyal worker but in return her former boss took advantage of her.
Ms Mills, a former model of Robertsbridge, East Sussex, was at the hearing in Ashford, Kent.
Ms Trumble, who lived with her family in Westfield, said that from April 2004 she was employed to look after Ms Mills and Sir Paul’s six-month-old daughter from 10am to 6pm, five days a week, while the couple were still living together.
She said Mills "was really nice and genuine" at first.
‘Very bitter’
However she soon found she was often expected to stay well into the evening while she waited for the couple to return home, without extra pay.
Ms Trumble also said that following the couple’s separation in May 2006 her job changed further as custody of the little girl was shared between Ms Mills and Sir Paul.
Ms Trumble, who was paid £260 a week by Mills, said: "Heather was very bitter towards Paul.
"I was, I believe, a great source of comfort and support for Heather at this time."
‘Lied under oath’
She also claimed the former model was unsympathetic towards her when she went through a difficult pregnancy, forcing her to accompany her on trips abroad.
Earlier the tribunal was delayed due to legal argument over whether information from the Mills-McCartney divorce proceedings should be used as evidence.
The tribunal was told such evidence was relevant because it showed Ms Mills had lied under oath at the High Court.
Tribunal judge Steven Vowles said it should not be used on the grounds of its late disclosure and lack of relevance.
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