In brief: Rachel Stevens hurts back in run-up to Strictly final

Strictly Come Dancing favourite Rachel Stevens is undergoing emergency treatment for a back injury. The former S Club 7 pop singer jarred her back in a fall during training with partner Vincent Simone (pictured with Stevens) putting her dream of winning the contest against actor Tom Chambers and TV presenter Lisa Snowdon in jeopardy. She is still hoping to recover in time for Saturday's final........... On the subject of backs, the injury that caused actor David Tennant to withdraw from Hamlet at London's Ivor Novello Theatre looks like spoiling the filming of his four final episodes of Doctor Who in the new year. Producers are drawing up contingency plans to adapt to his prolonged convalescence.......... Vivacious mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins, who has signed a £6m deal with Warner music, is being targeted by a stalker. The frightened singer has been talking to the police about how best to handle the situation, which has provoked memories of a previous incident in which she was attacked by a stranger who tried to drag her into a secluded lane, while she was studying at the Royal Academy of Music.......... Sir Philip Green may have been watching his profit margins at BHS and Topshop shrink, but the same cannot be said of his waistline. To get himself in shape before his annual Christmas jaunt at Barbados hotel Sandy Lane, Green has checked into an Arizona health farm. He is aiming to lose at least 10lb in five days.......... Gone Baby Gone director Ben Affleck has teamed up with Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones to make a short film highlighting the fate of hundreds of thousands of Congolese people displaced by civil war. The film, Gimme Shelter, was shot last month and is set to the Stones track of the same name............ The concert pianist Alfred Brendel, 77, is take his final bow tonight: he will give the last public performance of his 60-year career at the Golden Auditorium of Vienna's Musikverein. He will perform Mozart's ninth piano concerto, K.271 in E-flat major, which he has called "one of the greatest wonders of the world"........