Legal challenge set to delay Da Vinci Code movie

The big-screen adaptation of the best-selling book The Da Vinci Code, which features Midlothian’s Rosslyn Chapel, is set to be delayed by a legal challenge.

The film, which is directed by Oscar winner Ron Howard, is set to be released in Britain on May 19, but a copyright claim by the writers of a non-fiction book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, is due in the High Court in London next week.