File this under the 'aww how sweet' section: David Tennant paid ex-assistant and co-star Billie Piper a visit to catch 'the darling of the West End'. The two then later headed off for drink at St. Martin's Lane hotel. Click here for the article.

Today's edition of The Sun carries a picture story of Freema Agyeman in character as Martha Jones dressed in combat gear and on late-night manoeuvres.

It says that she was pictured on Whitmore Bay beach while filming with former EastEnders actor Tom Ellis.

According to the Sun story, the third series will start next month, contradicting earlier reports claiming that it will begin on March 31. The BBC has yet to make an official announcement regarding the start date, although mini teaser trailers have started running on BBC1.

There are no spoilers in the article.

The actor Gareth Hunt, who played Arak in Jon Pertwee's regeneration story Planet of the Spiders in 1974, died of pancreatic cancer today at home in Redhill, Surrey. He was 65.

Hunt was probably most famous for the role of Mike Gambit in The New Avengers in the 1970s. He also took part in a long-running Nescafe coffee advert campaign on TV.

Among his many other roles, he played the footman Frederick Norton in Upstairs, Downstairs, which was co-created by Jean Marsh, Pertwee's former wife who played companion character Sara Kingdom in The Daleks' Masterplan.

Click here for his career summary from Funky Beetroot Celebrity Management Ltd.

Reported at BBC News, The Times and the Daily Mirror, with obituaries at telegraph.co.uk and timesonline, the latter of which (at the time of posting this) mistakenly says his Doctor Who role was in 1963.

Click here for a BBC picture gallery of aspects of Hunt's career, which includes an image from Planet of the Spiders.

In a recent CBBC's Newsround Blog, Lizo talks about his visit to the set of Doctor Who Confidential, and chatting with David Tennant about his role as the Doctor. Tennant gave away some information about the episode Blink, and also revealed that filming on series three is to end this week.

The blog says, "David's been filming since last summer, and revealed that filming will finally finish at the end of this week. But he did promise me that series 3 will be 'bigger and better than ever'".

The article contains minor spoilers.

In an interview with Doctor Who Magazine, Gillane Seaborne, series producer for Doctor Who Confidentialgave a brief overview of what viewers can expect this season.

In the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine , the publication announced its plan for Special Issues upcoming in 2007. In Their Own Words Volume Three: 1977-1983 will be available in April. July will see The Doctor Who Storybook 2008 released in the same format as last year, once again featuring writers from the TV series. The Doctor Who Companion Series Three, which includes 100 pages of behind-the scenes revelations compiled by Andrew Pixley, will be out in August. The final installment of In Their Own Words series will be out in November and will cover 1984-1989 and the 1996 TV Movie.

In addition to the Special Releases, there will be two more graphic novels. The Flood will be released in May, whileVoyager will be out in October.

Torchwood and Doctor Who character Captain Jack Harkness has had a racehorse named after him.

And both of them will meet up later this month when actor John Barrowman goes to the colt's stables at Hucking, near Maidstone, Kent.

The two-year-old thoroughbred, pictured below, is one of the Hucking Horses syndicate and has been named Hucking Harkness.

On kentnews.co.uk trainer John Best says: "We were discussing the Hucking Horses and this colt - a son of the stallion Dr Fong - stood out as a tricky one to name.

"Somebody mentioned Dr Who and from there we reached Captain Jack - and Hucking Harkness was born.

"We got in touch with John Barrowman’s connections to see what they thought of us using the name and they loved the idea."

Barrowman will visit the stables on March 30. He said: "I can't wait to meet the colt and I’m hoping to see him race.

"It’s straight out of a Torchwood script - two Harknesses in the same place at the same time!"

Click on the image below for a larger version.

Note: Barrowman is the guest on A Taste Of My Life tonight on BBC2 at 6.30pm. The show is repeated tomorrow at 2.15pm on the same channel.

An extended version of the interview with Russell T Davies that appeared in SFX issue 155 has gone online on the magazine's official website. Davies talks about many things, including Martha and her family, and what role they will play in the new upcoming series. There is also mention of the episodes based on the novel Human Nature, and episode ten, Blink.

SFX issue 155 is on sale from Wednesday 14th March.

Billie Piper told today how her West End debut in Treats could have brought her close to breaking point.

In a lengthy interview for the Evening Standard, she said: "If I start to think about everything that everybody writes about me, I would probably break - I'm just trying something new and there's nothing wrong with that and, yes, it's hard.

"It's my first time on the West End stage and I've never done it before - it's hardly surprising that it's going to be really terrifying."

Piper had to miss two preview performances because of a bout of gastric flu, then the opening night was delayed, leading to various speculation.

"I was nervous and everybody was nervous . . . and then you have this hysteria. It's just frustrating more than anything," she said.

"But when the press are sat outside your stage door en masse, it's quite hard to brush off. You know, I'm pretty unflappable, but it was . . . an interesting week."

Interviewer Alison Roberts notes that, significantly, Piper paused before selecting the word "interesting".

Using the interview to scotch rumours and gossip, she said pictures that seemed to show her crying on the shoulder of estranged husband Chris Evans were, in fact, of her squinting because of the bright sun.

Piper, 24, also denied that she planned to marry Laurence Fox - her boyfriend and Treats co-star - saying: "No. I'm not even divorced yet, so that would be impossible."