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James Blake has walked away with the 2013 Barclaycard Mercury Prize for his album Overgrown . The 25-year-old musician triumphed at an awards ceremony held on Wednesday night (30 October) at the Roundhouse in London, chosen ahead of 11 other artists who included David Bowie (for his comeback album The Next Day ), Arctic Monkeys, Laura Marling and the favourite Laura Mvula.

The winner, who takes away a cheque for £20,000, was selected by a jury of industry people from a shortlist of twelve albums. The list included five debut albums, while Overgrown is Blake's second album. His...

Youth unemployment is a ‘public health time bomb’ according to new research from the World Health Organisation. Young people not in education, employment or training, have risen to more than 1 million in the UK. There is a large range of health risks associated with even a short period of unemployment. In the short term depression and suicide rises sharply amongst the unemployed, while in the long term chronic illnesses such as cancer increase. “Unemployment, particularly the persistent high levels of youth unemployment, is a public health time bomb waiting to explode,” said Professor Sir...

Supermarket giants Sainsbury’s will go to court over claims that their competitors’ Tesco Price Promise is misleading. The case put forward by Sainsbury’s claims that the Price Promise doesn’t incorporate any ethical sourcing standards into its comparisons. Sainsbury’s originally challenged Tesco in the ASA over the Price Promise scheme, in which Tesco matches products such as its Everyday Value Tea, which is not Fairtrade, with Sainsbury’s basics tea, which is. Other examples include our basics water, which comes from a spring in Yorkshire, filtered through mineral-rich Greenmoor rock but...

As the bosses of the UK's six biggest energy companies are called in front of the Energy and Climate Change Committee (ECCC), to justify recent price rises; the consumer champion Which? has launched a campaign to persuade the Chancellor of the Exchequer to take action on rising energy bills in his Autumn Statement.

Which? said: "With almost eight in ten people worried about rising energy costs and the suppliers being hauled in front of the Select Committee to justify price hikes, we call on the Chancellor to stand up for consumers when he stands up in the House of Commons to...