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MIKA - MIKA'S FANS HELP ON TOUR Caption: Mika (Picture) outside the BBC Radio 2 studios London, England .... The global economic downturn has hit MIKA hard - he was forced to bribe fans to help him make the set for his last tour. The...

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...week when their mayor, Jim Hothersall, mentioned the town in the same breath as Beirut on national radio. Speaking on Jeremy Vine's BBC Radio 2 show, the mayor elaborated on reports that police in Penwortham were advising homeowners not to...

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Unfortunately, this sort of vulgarity for vulgarity's sake has become almost the norm, which is presumably why the then controller of BBC Radio 2 thought the Jonathan Ross/Russell Brand tormenting of Andrew Sachs was suitable for...

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...was "swayed". "You know what? I'm going to phone that Mouse up (Mickey)," he said. "I will just leave an answer message if he don't pick up" - a reference to the Andrew Sachs scandal that forced him to quit his job at BBC Radio 2 last year.

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...Live in London yesterday, has already imparted some words of wisdom to his successor who will present his popular breakfast show on BBC Radio 2 from January. "Terry does his thing and I do my thing and I'm just going to go on and be...

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...of your neck, it might be offensive, but mucking around I don't think is offensive.'' Last year, Brand resigned from his job at BBC Radio 2 after the scandal surrounding a series of lewd messages he left on actor Andrew Sachs' answer...

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...for the BBC's Children in Need show a the first time since he left the group in 1995. In an interview to be broadcast later this year by BBC Radio 2, Williams praised Take That songwr ADVERTISEMENT iter Gary Barlow and revealed he had...

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...next to one another for the singalong finale of Hey Jude. Williams said the real reunion was yet to come. In an interview with BBC Radio 2, he said: "I want to do it because I've always wanted to be in a gang ever since I left that...

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...the quartet again, Williams has now claimed the studio reunion has already begun. During an interview to be broadcast later this year by BBC Radio 2, Williams praised Take That songwriter Gary Barlow and confessed he had recorded with the...

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Malcolm Laycock was a popular and award-winning radio presenter Former BBC Radio 2 presenter Malcolm Laycock died on Sunday, his agent says. Mr Laycock left Sunday Night at 10 - a programme dedicated to music of the 1930s and 40s - in...

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