In brief: Winehouse misses awards... again

Amy Winehouse (pictured) won an Ivor Novello songwriting award yesterday for her ballad Love is a Losing Game. True to form, the drug-challenged singer turned up too late to collect it. Her father, who stood in, thanked the singer's manager, saying he should be awarded the "equivalent of the Victoria Cross" for looking after his daughter... Monty Don, the 52-year-old presenter of Gardener’s World, is to give up his television work for the foreseeable future while he recovers from a minor stroke... Manchester United coach Sir Alex Ferguson and his players have been denied the chance of a Champions League victory parade. City officials say it would be too risky to let fans onto the streets of Manchester, following an incident two weeks ago when Glasgow Rangers supporters went on the rampage after losing in the UEFA Cup final... Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, 23, is to be the subject of a no-holdsbarred biography; author Ben Mezrich claims that Zuckerberg and his friend Eduardo Saverin only started Facebook to get into a secret society and, of course, "to get laid"… The Russian Communist party has called for the new Indiana Jones film, set at the height of the Cold War in 1957 and featuring Cate Blanchett as an evil KGB agent, to be banned from Russian cinemas: "What galls is how together with America we defeated Hitler, and how we sympathised when Bin Laden hit them. But they go ahead and scare kids with Communists," said a spokesman… Wesley Snipes, star of the Blade trilogy, has been granted bail while he appeals against his conviction for tax offences; he was sentenced in April to three years in jail for failing to file income tax returns...