Elbow pick up Novello double

ELBOW followed their recent honours by picking up two gongs at the Ivor Novello Awards yesterday.

The band beat Nick Hemming, a warehouse worker without a record deal, and the Last Shadow Puppets to win best song musically and lyrically for One Day Like This.

The band, who won last year’s Mercury Prize, also picked up best contemporary song for Grounds For Divorce.

The special international award went to Motown legend Smokey Robinson, while the Ting Tings’ We Started Nothing picked up the album award.