Blur are marking 21 years, and possibly their final days, by re-releasing almost everything they have ever recorded. Andy Gill discovers a host of unheard gems

Reunited Blur are to debut new songs on Twitter.

A Cornwall seafront hotel was destroyed today by a severe fire.

Steve Lamacq wiped tears from his eyes before he walked on-stage and recalled the “emotional three months” when it seemed the radio station he works for would never reach its tenth birthday, which was celebrated tonight, as the BBC planned 6 Music’s death.

Bands like The Cranberries must beware of cashing in on nostalgia, says Elisa Bray

History is just a series of dates

Step three of Madness' revival is staged in a holiday camp in an off-season Somerset resort town.

Further to your obituary of Jackie Leven (17 November), when I was writing a book about the British on holiday, and wanted to include a chapter on cruising, a mutual friend put me in touch with the singer-songwriter, who in his droll Scottish manner told me about his experience as the "entertainment" on a two-week cruise of the Norwegian fjords in 2002.

Colette and Hannah Thurlow, the London-based sisters behind 2:54, first appeared in this column in the summer of 2010 as an unsigned band touting an early demo of shoegaze/new wave-inflected gloomy guitar pop on Myspace (ind.pn/c08ayP).

The Iraq Inquiry has delayed its report by at least six months as it argues with the Government over the release of top-secret documents.