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Who'd have thought that the next artist to follow Radio head's lead in shaking up music industry pricing models would be not a cutting edge MC or left field indie band, but an evergreen singer about to release his 78th album. Cliff Richard, who next year celebrates 50 years since the release of debut single Move It, has promised fans that the more of them who buy his new album the less it will cost. For the next two weeks the website lovecliffrichard.com will collect download pre-orders for new compilation Love - the Album. Depending on the number of people who register ahead of its release on November 12 it will cost a maximum of £7.99 and a minimum of £3.99.

Invited to join a starry cast for Oliver Goldsmith's glorious comedy of mismatched couples, She Stoops To Conquer, Colin Baker muttered glumly: "As soon as Liza finds out I'm in it she'll change her mind!" But she didn't, and so the former Dr Who and the star of The Brothers met in the rehearsal room of Birmingham Rep, for the first time since they divorced 29 years ago - and as Mr and Mrs Hard castle, Baker and Liza Goddard are said to be getting on famously. Colin Baker, the sixth time lord, is not to be confused with Tom Baker, the fourth, nor indeed with Commander Maxil, the character he first played in the series, who shot the fifth Doctor, Peter Davison. In his current incarnation Baker moonlights as a columnist for the Bucks Free Press, where his most recent offering suggests he's not anticipating a BBC comeback: he described the corporation's plan to sell off Television Center to make way for "the podcast, phone-in and reality television generation" as "quite simply an act of willful vandalism".

Steven age borough council is to name a street in honor of local boy Lewis Hamilton's second place in his rookie formula one season. If only that dodgy gearbox hadn't slipped in the Brazilian grand prix it would probably have been Lewis Hamilton borough council by now.

Amateur archaeologist Larney Cavanagh has found the first Roman cavalry tombstone ever discovered in Scotland, lying on the edge of a ploughed field. It appears to show the Roman kicking the corpse of a dead barbarian, "who represents our unfortunate ancestors," as Fraser Hunter, principal curator at the National Museums of Scotland, put it.