Canadian promoters are anxiously awaiting a decision from Eminem on whether he is heading back to the city of Toronto which tried to ban him last year. Eminem's side project D-12 play a show on 1 July in Toronto and Eminem may be set to join them on stage. Organisers say they are unlikely to confirm the Detroit rapper's appearance until the day before the show.

Nicole Sullivan, spokesperson for the promoters, said, 'We don't know if he's going to be coming. He's picking the dates on the tour that he wants to come to.'

D-12 are going on tour to promote their debut album Devil's Night due out on 19 June and are booked for Toronto's first New Muzik Festival on 1 July.

Eminem last played the city in October. His appearance at the SkyDome stirred controversy when leading community leaders voiced their concern. The protest went to the Ontario Attorney General who unsuccessfully tried to get immigration officials to refuse the rapper entry into the province.

While Eminem's scheduled court appearance for weapons offences was postponed until 28 June yesterday, another one has been resolved. The two lawsuits Eminem's mother filed against him have finally been settled.

Debbie Mathers-Briggs lawyers have now agreed to one lump financial payment of £20,000 to be made by the rapper to his mother. But Mrs Mathers-Briggs is reportedly furious with the sum and tried to sack her legal team and hire a new team in a bid to get more money from her millionaire son.

Mathers-Briggs had originally sued for $10m (£8m) but later reduced her asking price to $2m (£1.2m) over two lawsuits relating to comments made by Eminem that she was an unstable mother and a drug user.

Yesterday's scheduled court hearing relating to charges of carrying a concealed weapon in a street in Oakland during a confrontation with a member of the Insane Clown Posse will now take place on 28 June. Eminem is already on probation after pleading no contest to charges of pistol whipping a man in a Detroit car park.

A US radio station has been fined $7,000 for playing Eminem's The Real Slim Shady. Even though the station played the family-friendly, censored version, the fine is the latest example of new President George W Bush's vow to clean up America. The Federal Communications Commission, appointed by Bush, hit the station, Citadel KKMG-FM in Pueblo with the fine last week claiming the censored track was still too suggestive.

If an appeal against the fine by the radio station is unsuccessful, it could threaten Eminem's career in the US with Eminem's other tracks and songs by other rap artists facing a ban. Among the lyrics the Commission objected to was the line: 'And that's the message we deliver to little kids, and expect them not to know what woman's BLEEP is.'

The Commission stated: 'The edited version of the song contains unmistakable offensive sexual references in conjunction with sexual expletives that appear intended to pander and shock.'

The ban is the just the latest in a long line of bans to hit the rapper. New Zealand authorities restricted the sale of his latest album, the Marshall Mathers LP to over-18s and the Canadian government threatened him with expulsion for a series of allegedly lewd gigs.

Meanwhile Eminem has reportedly asked for a whopping $1m Australian dollars (£360,000) to play two Australian shows in August. Three separate promoters have been clamouring to bring him down under, despite the media frenzy calling for a ban on the rapper. The media also want Eminem to restrict his shows to over-18s.

Eminem's grandmother Betty Kresin appeared on GMTV this morning and told host Eamon Holmes that Eminem 'already knows' he will not get a jail sentence today. The rapper is expected to receive another period of probation for possession of an offensive weapon and brandishing an offensive weapon in public during a confrontation with a member of rival crew, the Insane Clown Posse in June of last year. Kresin also told Holmes that her grandson will be house hunting in England when he arrives in the country in August to play the Carling Weekend Reading and Leeds festivals. kresin described the rapper as 'a chip off the old block' and 'a kind, loving person just likes his grandmother.'

Kresin also told Holmes that Eminem's estranged wife Kim had been 'drunk' on the night the rapper pulled an unloaded gun on another man who was allegedly kissing Kim outside a nightclub in their hometown of Detroit in June last year and that she was 'with three men' not one.

In April Eminem was given two years' probation for his part in that incident. He has already pleaded no contest to the charges he faces later today.

Eminem's divorce from estranged wife Kim looks set to get nasty. The rapper, whose annual income according to court papers is $2.7m (£2.2m), is disagreeing with a court recommendation that he pay Kim Mathers a six figure annual sum for child support.

Eminem claims that the sum of $142,480 (£100,000) a year, as recommended by the Friend of the Court is too much while Kim is saying it's not enough. The court recommended that Eminem should pay $2,740 (£2,200) per week in child support to Kim after the coupled agreed in March to share custody of five year old daughter Hailie Jade. The recommendation also called for the rapper to pay $156, (£100) a week in health insurance. Kim, who is unemployed, now wants more. Her lawyer said that because of the couple's differing incomes, the sum recommended was not enough.

Eminem and his wife Kim separated last August . Although the couple reconciled briefly last year they filed for divorce in March citing a breakdown in the marriage. They have already agreed a deal over property. Eminem will keep their $450,000 home and Kim will be given $475,000 to buy a new home.