In brief: Gabriel Garcia Marquez ends his writer’s block

Gabriel Garcia Marquez [pictured], the 81-year-old Colombian-born novelist who won the Nobel Prize in 1982 for One Hundred Years of Solitude, is close to finishing an as yet untitled 250-page novel, two years after he told a Spanish newspaper that he had finished with writing because his heart wasn't in it... Mark Wallinger, one of five artists vying for the commission to create a £2m landmark artwork to celebrate the new Ebbsfleet International station in Kent, is proposing a monumental white horse, 33 times life-size - a 'Stallion of the south' to rival Antony Gormley's Angel of the North... Singer Amy Winehouse has been released on bail after being arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of drug offences; the Grammy award winner was held after police were handed a video which allegedly showed her taking drugs... the Duke of York's daughter, Princess Beatrice, has been taken on as an intern at Selfridges department store... New London mayor Boris Johnson is related to the Queen. A geneaologist has revealed that he is a direct descendent of Frederick, Prince of Wales - the father of "Mad" King George III. He is also a sixth cousin several times removed of the Tory leader David Cameron, who himself is a distant cousin of the reigning monarch...