One of the men accused of plotting to murder singer Joss Stone wrote a diary with notes including "death", "rob" and "injure", a court has heard.

BBC: Joss Stone accused 'wrote diary with death notes'

The second half is a more prosaic presentation, sometimes day-by-day, often week-by-week, of the events until his death in 1995, almost at times an expansion of Spender's enormously full social diary.

ECONOMIST: Stephen Spender

From the time he published his first story in 1833 till his death in 1870, Dickens was frantically busy, not only with his writing but also with a crammed social diary and taxing commitments to charities, causes and campaigns.

ECONOMIST: Charles Dickens