The news of Harper Lee's death is being marked on social media by many, among them authors Malorie Blackman and Erica Jong and Apple CEO Tim Cook.

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Harper Lee was famously reclusive and there is only one journalist still alive who has interviewed her. 

Read what it was like.

Born Nelle Harper Lee on 28 April 1926, Lee was a guardedly private person who rarely gave interviews.

To Kill a Mockingbird was a huge critical and commercial success that won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

A sequel, Go Set a Watchman, was published in 2015.

Read her obituary.

The owner of the independent bookshop in Harper Lee's hometown has said that many of her friends have been coming into the shop to talk about her.

Spencer Madrie, owner of the Ol’ Curiosities and Book Shoppe, told the BBC he had been told that Lee died in the early hours of the morning in the retirement home she lived in.

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Harper Lee, the author of classic US novel To Kill a Mockingbird, has died at the age of 89.

The death has been confirmed by the Mayor's Office in Monroeville, her Alabama home town.

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Comedian Sarah Millican is among the stars sending their love to This Morning's agony aunt Denise Robertson after it was revealed she has pancreatic cancer. 

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British composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has been awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal - one of classical music's highest honours.

Here's why.

The medal was presented to Sir Peter at his home on Orkney by RPS council member Sally Groves MBE - and it seems he was very happy to receive it. 

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Here's a sneak peak at Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc as they set off on their first filming assignment for Top Gear. 

They left the BBC this morning in roofless Reliant Robins, decorated in UK and US flags. 

They're racing to Blackpool - a town LeBlanc admitted he had never heard of. 

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Rihanna will still perform at next week’s BRIT awards, despite news that she has cancelled some US and UK tour dates.

The singer will perform at the awards ceremony for the fourth time in her career at London’s O2 Arena on Wednesday, organisers have confirmed.

Earlier it was announced that Rihanna’s June gigs at Sunderland's Stadium of Light and Cardiff's Principality Stadium had been pulled from her Anti tour for “logistical reasons”.

Her Coventry date at the Ricoh Arena is going ahead but has been postponed from 14 to 25 June.

Rihanna has also delayed the start of her world tour by postponing eight shows in the US. 

The singer failed to perform at the Grammys on Monday, with her representative saying she was unwell and under doctors orders to rest her vocal cords.  

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Meryl Streep is at the Berlin Film Festival at the moment, chairing a jury that will spend much of the weekend deliberating which film will receive its prestigious Golden Bear award.

But the Oscar-winning actress hasn't given up the day job, as this "teaser" trailer for her next vehicle shows.

Directed by Stephen Frears, Florence Foster Jenkins tells the true story of an opera-loving socialite who liked nothing better than regaling an audience with her truly hideous voice.

The same woman also inspired a French film, Marguerite, that will reach UK cinemas next month, two months before Frears' film gets its own UK release.

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Not content with having Woody Allen make a TV show for them, online behemoth Amazon has also snapped up the North American rights to the veteran director's new movie.

The currently untitled film - a romantic comedy set in the 1930s whose cast includes Steve Carell and Kristen Stewart - will be released in US cinemas in the summer before being made available to stream on the Amazon Prime service.

Allen, who turns 80 in December, has greeted the news with his usual mordant wit.

Amazon Studios head Roy Price, in contrast, was slightly more on message.

News now for Star Wars fans who think they might have a talent for film-making themselves.

For the first time, the Star Wars Fan Film Competition has been opened up to entries from the UK. 

Force Awakens director JJ Abrams announced the news on Twitter in a little film where you can see a taster of previous winners and the categories you can enter. 

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Earlier this week we reported that Michael Moore had to cancel an appearance at the Berlin Film Festival after being diagnosed with pneumonia.

Now the Glasgow Film Festival, external, which began on Wednesday, has announced that British film-maker Peter Greenaway has had to cancel an appearance of his own, again due to illness.

The Drowning By Numbers and Pillow Book director had been due to appear this weekend in support of his latest film, Eisenstein in Guanajuato.

A spokesman for the film’s UK distributor said the 73-year-old "sends his sincere apologies to the festival and to all of those who had bought tickets to see him in person."

There's more than a spoonful of love on Twitter at the news that Emily Blunt is in talks to play Mary Poppins in a new Disney sequel. 

Here's what film critic Mark Kermode has to say on the matter. 

Comedian Leigh Francis, aka Keith Lemon, is among those who have tweeted their support for This Morning's Denise Robertson following the agony aunt's announcement she has been diagnosed with cancer. 

Ferne McCann from The Only Way is Essex, now a This Morning showbiz reporter, has also tweeted.

And there's also a message from the University of Sunderland, who gave Robertson an honorary doctorate in 1997.

The owner of a luxury house that featured in The Big Lebowski is donating it to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the hope that people will build more architecturally creative homes. 

James Goldstein has promised to leave the building, along with its gardens, art pieces and his fashion collection, to the museum so that it will one day be open to the public. 

The house featured prominently in the 1998 Coen brothers' film as the home of Jackie Treehorn, the pornographer played by Ben Gazzara. 

The house, which has amazing views over LA and internal Koi carp ponds, also appeared in 2003's Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and has been used for high-fashion photo shoots.

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Here people walking through the office are seen from a bathroom. Yes this is the bathroom.

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And the office has quite a view too. 

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Matt LeBlanc appeared on Chris Evans's Radio 2 breakfast show this morning to find out the first challenge they face as co-hosts of the new Top Gear series.

Here's how it was revealed by fellow guests David Baddiel and Michelle Collins.

So it's London to Blackpool in Reliant Robins for Chris and Matt, with the pride of their respective countries at stake.   

LeBlanc also spoke about how he has to commute between the UK and Los Angeles during filming, as he is also shooting the pilot of a new CBS sitcom and he still has to find his perfect on-screen wife. 

Two BBC nature documentaries have been criticised for serious editorial breaches by the BBC Trust.

Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise, broadcast in September 2015, showed what appeared to be a volcano erupting.

But it emerged later that the clip included footage from a storm surrounding a different volcano eruption in 2011.

The Trust also looked at Human Planet: Deserts - Life in the Furnace, originally broadcast in 2011.

In that instance, producers - having been unable to film a wild wolf for the programme - used a semi-domesticated wolf that had been let off a lead just before filming.

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Nick Grimshaw has announced he won't be returning as a judge on The X Factor.

He confirmed the news on his Radio 1 Breakfast show this morning, saying he had quit the ITV show and had not been fired.

"It's a great show and I loved it," he said. "But it's definitely a once in a lifetime-style thing," he said.

Louis Tomlinson from One Direction and former X Factor judge Louis Walsh are reportedly being lined up as potential replacements.

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This Morning's agony aunt Denise Robertson, who has been with the ITV show since it started in 1988, has been diagnosed with cancer. 

The news was revealed on the show's Facebook page, external, alongside a statement from the much-loved 83-year-old.  

Host Philip Schofield, who is on holiday this week, tweeted his support. 

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