Wannabes join queue for new girl group

WATCH out Girls Aloud, there's New Girlz on the Block in a bid for pop stardom.

Winners of Popstars, The Rivals, who scored a recent No 1 hit Sound of the Underground, are due for fresh competition soon from a new Irish teenband with the provisional title, New Girlz on the Block.

Although the entire nation might raise a collective eyebrow at the prospect of yet another girl group, it did not act as a deterrent for almost 1,000 young girls to show up in Dublin yesterday to audition for a band whose most unique claim for the moment is that they are not being managed by Louis Walsh.