Week ahead

TODAYLovers will celebrate St Valentine's Day.

The Chinese will mark the start of the Year of the Tiger.

The British National Party is set to hold an extraordinary general meeting to decide on scrapping the party's whites-only membership rule.

Sir Terry Wogan will start his new BBC Radio 2 show, Weekend Wogan.

England will play Italy in rugby's Six Nations in Rome.

MONDAY

Louise Glover, 26, of Los Angeles, will be sentenced for her attack on Maxine Hardcastle, 23, the daughter of 1980s pop star Paul Hardcastle.

Annual Children of Alcoholics Week is scheduled to take place in the UK.

Ian Knight, 50, of West Bromwich, who pleaded guilty to 13 charges of sex offences involving children, will be sentenced.

TUESDAY

Peter Kay will host the 30th annual Brit Awards.

Swindon will be officially twinned with Walt Disney World in Florida.

The UK will celebrate Shrove Tuesday.

The annual Shrovetide Skipping Festival will take place in Scarborough.

Lithuania will celebrate its national day – and two decades of independence.

WEDNESDAY

The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) will announce the winner of its annual Pub of the Year award.

Portsmouth Football Club is provisionally expected to face a hearing for a winding-up petition from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs over an unpaid tax bill and a dispute over VAT.

Thomas Cook holiday representative Richard Carson, 27, and ex-rep Nicola Gibson, 25, will go on trial for manslaughter and negligence in relation to the deaths of Christi Shepherd, seven, and her brother Robert, six, of West Yorkshire, who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in October 2006, while holidaying on Corfu.

Barack Obama will risk China's ire by meeting the Dalai Lama, below, in the White House.

THURSDAY

Ronan Keating will kick off his UK tour with three nights at Glasgow's Clyde Auditorium

A debate on Scotland entitled "This House believes in The Union" will take place at the Oxford Union.

Entertainer Darren Day, 41, is scheduled to appear before Edinburgh Sheriff Court to be tried for possessing an offensive weapon.

The sixth Glasgow Film Festival will open with Jean Pierre Jeunet's comedy Micmacs.

FRIDAY

EastEnders is scheduled to mark its 25th anniversary with a live broadcast at 8pm.

The Baby Show starts in London – at the same time as the Wedding Show.

London Fashion Week will begin.

SATURDAY

More than 550 First ScotRail's guards, drivers and sleeper-train managers, all members of the RMT union, are scheduled to go on a 24-hour strike.

A new series of classic US crime drama Law And Order begins on Channel 5.