Confirmed details about the "fracas" involving presenter Jeremy Clarkson and Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon have now emerged.

According to Tony Hall, Mr Tymon - described as "a completely innocent party" - "took himself to Accident and Emergency after a physical altercation accompanied by sustained and prolonged verbal abuse of an extreme nature.

"I want to make clear that no blame attaches to him for this incident," said Lord Hall of Mr Tymon. "He has behaved with huge integrity throughout.

"As a senior producer at the BBC he will continue to have an important role within the organisation in the future."

Perry McCarthy,Top Gear's original 'Stig', told the BBC News Channel: "Like him or loathe him, people tune into Top Gear primarily for Jeremy Clarkson."

Clarkson, he went on, had "a lot more options" than the BBC. "Other broadcasters will be thinking, how can we get Jeremy Clarkson onto our screens?"

Lord Hall's statement concludes: "The BBC must now look to renew Top Gear for 2016. This will be a big challenge and there is no point in pretending otherwise."

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"This decision should in no way detract from the extraordinary contribution that Jeremy Clarkson has made to the BBC," Lord Hall continues. "I have always personally been a great fan of his work and Top Gear.

"Jeremy is a huge talent. He may be leaving the BBC but I am sure he will continue to entertain, challenge and amuse audiences for many years to come."

"We need distinctive and different voices but they cannot come at any price," Lord Hall's statement continues. "Common to all at the BBC have to be standards of decency and respect.

"For me a line has been crossed. There cannot be one rule for one and one rule for another dictated by either rank, or public relations and commercial considerations."

In a statement, BBC director general Tony Hall said it was "with great regret" he had told Clarkson his contract was not being renewed and that it was not a decision he had taken lightly.

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Jeremy Clarkson's contract will not be renewed by the BBC, marking the end of his time as Top Gear presenter.

After more than 50 years and more than 20,000 performances, off-Broadway staple The Fantasticks will finally close in New York on 3 May.

The auspicious date marks the 55th anniversary of the show's original opening in 1960 - provided we politely gloss over its four-year hiatus between 2002 and 2006.

A mock version of Romeo and Juliet, the show concerns a young girl and boy who are secretly brought together by their fathers and features the timeless tune Try to Remember.

Glenn Close, F Murray Abraham and Kristin Chenoweth - currently treading the boards on Broadway in musical On the Twentieth Century (below) - are just a few of the many actors to have appeared in it over the years.

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This cocoon-like building will be taking shape in London's Hyde Park this summer.

The picture shows the design, by Spanish architects SelgasCano, for the Serpentine gallery's 15th annual pavilion.

The colourful building is described as "an amorphous, double-skinned, polygonal structure consisting of panels of a translucent, multi-coloured fabric membrane woven through and wrapped in webbing".

Serpentine Galleries director Julia Peyton-Jones said: "In keeping with their reputation for playful designs and bold use of colour, SelgasCano's structure will be an extraordinary chrysalis-like structure, as organic as the surrounding gardens."

Visitors will be able to enter and exit the structure at a number of different points.

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Paul Walker, star of the Fast and Furious films, died in 2013 after the car he was in crashed at a speed of more than 100mph in Los Angeles.

The tragedy came halfway through production on the seventh film in the franchise, leaving cast and crew with a terrible dilemma. Should they scrap the movie, or finish it in his honour?

In the end they chose the latter, using a combination of body doubles and CGI to finish Walker's scenes.

Peter Jackson's Weta took on the sensitive and arduous task of re-animating the star for Fast & Furious 7. Find out how they did it., external

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An oil painting thought to have been created by Claude Monet has been proven to be genuine by researchers in Finland.

The artwork had not previously been authenticated because the artist's signature is covered by paint.

But thanks to a hyperspectral camera, researchers were able to "see" below the surface and reveal Monet's autograph and the date the painting was created.

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Here's the UK and Commonwealth cover for Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman - which is due to be published on 14 July.

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The book is the 88-year-old American author's first release since To Kill a Mockingbird was published in July 1960.

Go Set a Watchman was written before To Kill A Mockingbird, and features many of the same characters.

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You may have seen Ed Sheeran perform his brooding new single Bloodstream at this year's Brits. Now he's released a video for the song - with a certain GoodFella attached.

Yes, that's Ray Liotta smashing a glass, trashing a mansion and riding a horse in his guise as an over-the-hill rock star turning to the bottle to drown his self-loathing. Well, that's our interpretation anyway.

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He's put them away for Manchester United, Coventry City, Aston Villa and Celtic. But there's more to former footballer Dion Dublin than playing or talking about the beautiful game.

In a startling transfer move, the 45-year-old has been added to the team of Homes Under the Hammer, BBC One's popular daytime show about properties up for auction.

"I have a passion for property and look forward to meeting people on the show who share that passion," said Dublin, whose other post-soccer activities include promoting a six-sided percussion instrument he's invented called the Dube, external.

We have no doubt the lad will give 110 percent.

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Watch out, Richard and Judy - ITV's Loose Women is also launching a book club.

Loose Books will feature a different panellist selecting their favourite book every month.

The first book up for discussion - on 20 April - is Paula Hawkins' psychological thriller The Girl on The Train, chosen by Coleen Nolan.

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A Picasso painting estimated to fetch around $140m (£94m) is among the star lots coming up at Christie's in New York.

Les femmes d'Alger (Version "O") is from Picasso's 1954-55 series, in which he looked back to 19th Century French master Eugene Delacroix for inspiration.

The oil on canvas leads the Looking Forward to the Past auction on 11 May, which includes the work of 20th Century artists who were "heavily influenced" by their predecessors.

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"Patchy, "inconsequential, external" and "decidedly lowbrow, external" were some of the kinder descriptors the critics gave to Super Troopers, a 2002 film about incompetent patrolmen from Canadian comedy outfit Broken Lizard (pictured).

Thirteen years on, though, the film has apparently accrued enough of a cult following for the team to produce a sequel - provided they can persuade their fans to cough up some capital.

The troupe have launched a crowd-funding campaign, external to finance the sequel and are asking for a minimum of $2m (£1.34m) to get it produced.

If the target is met, shooting will begin this summer.

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Jon Hamm's publicist has confirmed the Mad Men star recently completed treatment for alcohol addiction following reports he spent 30 days at a Connecticut hospital.

The actor and his partner, Jennifer Westfeldt, "have asked for privacy and sensitivity going forward", his representative said.

Read the full story. You can also watch a report on a Mad Men exhibition currently running in New York.

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The latest trailer for the eagerly awaited Entourage film has dropped on the net, and we'd be lying if it hasn't got us excited.

For the uninitiated, the film is a continuation of the hugely popular HBO comedy that followed the fortunes of a hot young movie star and the posse of pals who tag along when he relocates to Hollywood.

Vincent (Adrian Grenier), 'E' (Kevin Connolly), 'Drama' (Kevin Dillon) and 'Turtle' (Jerry Ferrara) are all returning, as is Vince's fearsome agent Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven).

There's also an eye-catching assortment of guest stars, among the Liam Neeson, DJ Calvin Harris, Star Trek's George Takei and Mark Wahlberg, the man who inspired the show in the first place.

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The aforementioned Stephen Mangan was on stage at the National Theatre last night, playing a feckless husband enduring the family Christmas from hell in Rules for Living.

Written by (female) playwright Sam Holcroft, it's an Alan Ayckbourn-style comedy of manners with a game show-flavoured twist - giant, Family Fortunes-style display boards on two sides of the auditorium that tell us how its characters will behave in particular situations.

The show ends with a spectacular coup de theatre it would be a shame to reveal here. Suffice to say that the stage managers are the true heroes at the end of each performance in the newly configured Dorfman theatre.

Catherine Tate and Sherlock actor Andrew Scott were among a first night audience on Tuesday that also included the National's new artistic director, Rufus Norris.

Read what Quentin Letts had to say, external about the production in the Daily Mail. Be warned, though: his review does contain spoilers.