MUSIC NEWS: Fans of Bombay Bicycle Club got a nice bonus at the band’s gig in Earls Court last weekend when the Londoners were joined on stage by David Gilmour. 

HOW much for a pound of flesh? That depends whereabouts it’s from.

British troops have quelled an attack in Basra by hundreds of Iraqi militia loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the British Ministry of Defence said today.