Simon sacked by Sir Alan

Simon Smith is the latest candidate to be kicked off The Apprentice.

The senior satellite engineer acknowledges he behaved like David Brent from The Office and he even shed a tear when he got the boot.

But he was the first to admit, he wasn't up to Sir Alan's expectations.

He brought Alex and Claire into the boardroom with him - but they were spared.

Cleaning up the web

It's time to clean up the internet and get rid of all child porn...

That's the views of the Internet Watch Foundation - they are like the 'web police' who monitor dodgy websites and the people who log onto them.

They say it is possible to remove all illegal ponography from the internet, but they say countries around the world need to work together to tackle the problem.

It's thought there are around 3,000 sites which show illegal images of children, most are from Russia or the US.

The police and the Internet Watch Foundation work round the clock to track the people behind it and those that log on.

World tour for Queen of Pop

Speculation's growing that Madonna's about to announce a world tour this year.

And it's rumoured the whole thing's going to end in a massive extravaganza at Wembley Stadium.

It's thought she's in final negotiations to arrange the dates, which are likely to start in September.

Weapons affect a tenth of youth

More than one in ten young people in Britain have been personally affected by gun and knife crime.

A new report by the children's charity NCH has found 36% of youths are worried about becoming a victim and lots of you say you feel in danger in your communities.

NCH spoke to 800 people under 25.

Salesman to movie actor...

The best story of the day has to be about the British man who had absolutely no acting experience but who has managed to blag his way into a Hollywood movie.

Carl Kelly is from Hertfordshire, he's a salesman normally...but he managed to sneak on to the set of Iron Man whilst he was on holiday in Las Vegas.

Iron Man is a big movie staring Terrence Howard who was in Hustle and Flow and Ray, Robert Downey Junior's in it as well as Gwyneth Paltrow.

Some of the promo shots for the film have turned up in the papers and Salesman Carl is in them.

Skin Damaged star

Denise Van Outen is warning young people about the danger of sunbeds

She says her face has been left scarred by them.

The I'd Do Anything judge became addicted to tanning as a teenager.

Now the 33 year old says the pigmentation problems on her face are so bad she has to use heavy make up to hide them.