James Blunt was a double winner at the Ivor Novello Awards today while Coldplay left empty-handed.

A former member of the Seventies rock band Jethro Tull has had a sex-change operation to become a woman, it was revealed today.

Jethro Tull is off the playlist of a classic rock station after the band’s frontman criticised displays of the American flag.

British-based charity Oxfam today denied charges that a campaign backed by its Belgian affiliate to boycott Israeli goods produced in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights was anti-Semitic.