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Christian Bale has been released on bail following allegations that he assaulted his mother and sister hours before the European premiere of his new film The Dark Knight.

The Welsh-born actor's mother Jenny (61) and Sharon (40) had travelled to London from their homes in Dorset to attend the premiere but an incident is reported to have taken place at the Dorchester hotel on Sunday night.

Bale was approached by police officers yesterday, after they had decided to allow him to attend the premiere in Leicester Square on Monday, and questioned for four hours at Belgravia police station.

Soul singer Adele has confessed that she is nervous about moving out of her mother's home and has predicted that she will be living on a diet of Pot Noodles as she does not know how to cook.

The 20-year-old has continued to live at home with her mother in London despite her growing success on both sides of the Atlantic.

Her debut album 19 has already won her a Brit award and it has also been nominated for this year's Mercury Music Prize.

Radiohead, Estelle and the Last Shadow Puppets will all go head to head in the competition to win the Nationwide Mercury Prize this year.

The shortlist of 12 nominated acts has now been published and the winner will be announced on Friday September 12th.

Debut albums such as Londoner Adele's 19 have been included alongside Elbow's fourth studio album The Seldom Seen Kid.

Blake Fielder-Civil, the husband of Grammy Award-winning singer Amy Winehouse, was sentenced to 15 months for causing grievous bodily harm and 12 months for trying to pervert the course of justice, totalling 27 months in jail, at Snaresbrook Crown Court in East London yesterday.

Fielder-Civil admitted helping to assault James King, landlord of the Macbeth pub in Hoxton, East London and attempting to bribe him to keep quiet about the incident using an offer of £200,000.

Judge David Radford noted that Fielder-Civil "had access to his wife's money" in order to fund the bribe plot, which would have seen King disappear to Spain had it been successful.

Christian Bale has confessed that he was so desperate to land his career-changing role in the 1999 film American Psycho that he warned off other A-list actors.

The Welsh-born star, who plays Batman in the eagerly anticipated movie The Dark Knight, stunned critics with his mesmerising performance as charming but psychotic serial killer Patrick Bateman in the film.

Adapted from the controversial novel by Bret Easton Ellis, Bale admits that he was completely taken by the unusual script and became determined to win the part even though it meant competing against actors who were much bigger stars than him at the time - including Leonardo DiCaprio.