Week ahead

TODAYContestants Kieron Richardson, Hayley Tamaddon and Gary Lucy get their skates on for the finale of ITV's Dancing On Ice.

Best-selling author Philip Pullman launches his new book The Good Man Jesus And The Scoundrel Christ.

The Railway Children is re-released, to mark the film's 40th anniversary, at the Bradford International Film Festival.

The annual World Pooh Sticks Championship takes place at Day's Lock, Little Wittenham, Oxfordshire, organised by Oxford Spires Rotary Club.

MONDAY

Channel 4 broadcasts its live Ask The Chancellors debate with Alistair Darling, George Osborne and Vince Cable.

An extradition hearing is to take place in London for former Bosnian president Dr Ejup Ganic, accused of war crimes by the Serbian government.

Heather Mills' former nanny begins an employment tribunal case alleging sex discrimination and unfair dismissal.

TUESDAY

Legal representatives of the three Labour MPs and a Tory peer accused of abuse of allowances are due back in court.

John Campbell, 59, who was found guilty of murdering Robert Rose, from Rotherham, Yorkshire, at his home on Sanday last June will be sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow.

The funeral of Corporal Richard Green, 23, killed in Afghanistan, will take place in Reading.

WEDNESDAY

Queen Victoria's stockings, valued at 400, are to go up for auction at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh.

Former Office of Fair Trading accountant Asif Haque will be sentenced for fraud involving more than 354,000.

An inquest will resume into the deaths of a four-year-old girl and her mother and father. Andy Copland, 56, is believed to have killed his former partner Julie Harrison, 40, and their daughter, Maisie Harrison-Copland, at his home in Aldershot on 29 December, before shooting himself.

THURSDAY

Notorious crime gang member Paul Lyons, 28, is due to be sentenced for the road rage killing of van driver Mark Fleeman near Larkhall, Lanarkshire, in June.

A minute's silence will be observed in London on the first anniversary of the death of G20 protester Ian Tomlinson, who died after being knocked to the ground by a policeman.

Ronald Fowles and Alexander Bain McGinn are to appear in court after a hoax bomb threat grounded a packed jet at Heathrow Airport.

It is April Fools' Day.

FRIDAY

To mark Good Friday, a free public performance of the Passion of Jesus involving 107 actors in costume will take place in London's Trafalgar Square.

Family exhibition "Wallace & Gromit present... A World of Cracking Ideas" is due to open at Glasgow Science Centre.

The World Marbles Championship will take place at the Greyhound pub in Crawley, Sussex.

SATURDAY

Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu will conduct open air baptisms in York.

BSkyB is to launch its 3D TV service with the Premier League clash between Manchester United and Chelsea FC.