Gossip column: Ben Arfa, Crouch, Alli, Isco, Cavani, Lennon

Justin Rowlatt is down at the Bank of England for BBC Radio 4's Today programme: He says the lights are on and staff are busy working inside. Although perhaps not quite as frantically as if Scotland was looking on course to vote Yes in the referendum.

The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says it is the first sign of President Hollande's determination to join military action against IS. On Monday, France – which opposed the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq – hosted an international conference on the crisis

Out film actor Ben Whishaw has been cast as the lead in an upcoming BBC spy drama 'London Spy'.

The BBC has lodged a formal protest with the Russian authorities after a news team from the BBC's Moscow bureau was attacked in the south of the country. The cameraman was beaten up and the camera smashed during the attack. The team was 

Pro-independence Scots rallied outside the BBC's Glasgow headquarters on Sunday to protest the public broadcaster's pro-union “bias” and demand the resignation of political editor Nick Robinson.