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The list is designed to highlight the most exciting musical talent for the coming year and the artists have been picked by 165 UK-based tastemakers. They each named their favourite three new acts and those with the most votes were...

Dec 7 (EFE) A motorcyclist was hit and killed by a small plane carrying cocaine on a highway in northern Honduras, officials said. Israel Martinez Euceda, 18, was hit by the twin-engine plane while riding his motorcycle Saturday night, police...

Scotland's men and women are in good qualifying shape as the early round-robin games of the Le Gruyere European Curling Championships unfold in Aberdeen...Sweden by 3-2 in a game that they dominated, forcing five blank ends before using their final...

Although French plays have a reputation for tight classicism and high-flown intellectual ambition, there is a rich seam of pure entertainment which runs through the country’s theatrical history. Take, for example, Georges Feydeau, the master of farce at the turn...

Pay-TV operators must pay a levy of 1.5% while telecommunications operators pay 0.9%...José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, tries to turn it away from commercial programming towards more public service broadcasting ...The European commission welcomed the move away from advertising but it...

Tween Hannah Montana. Photograph: W Disney/Everett / Rex Features This is a difficult age. As we bid farewell to the noughties, it is time to ponder the question of how to address the decade to come...Should we plump for the...

December Forget about the Spice Girls reunion, how about the Teletubbies, eh-oh? It’s 11 years ago today since Laalaa, Dipsy, Tinkywinky and Po had a pre-Christmas number one with ‘Eh Oh’. The Spice Girls beat them to the Christmas top...

Premier Inn, the budget hotel chain owned by Whitbread, has fired off a series of legal warnings to Travelodge after its rival lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over a £29-a-room promotional campaign fronted by Lenny Henry,...

The group is expected to announce today a €17 million (£15 million) deal to sell its 49 per cent stake to Oakley Capital, a private equity group. The deal will provide a welcome profit for the publisher of The Independent...

The mezzanine consortium, led by Intermediate Capital Group and Park Square, will urge the senior lenders tomorrow to back its plans to convert £540 million of mezzanine debt into equity in a financial restructuring that would reduce Gala’s net debt...