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Beattie takes over at Accrington Stanley

James Beattie was appointed Accrington Stanley’s first-team manager with immediate effect yesterday.

The song, sang by Judy Garland, right, and from the Wizard Of Oz, was propelled to the top of the charts by an online campaign by anti-Thatcher campaigners

Ding Dong: BBC 'compromise' will play 5-second clip of protest song on Radio 1 chart show

Chart show will treat anti-Thatcher song as a news item

Pc corrects her father: damages claim WILL go ahead after trip at suspected break-in garage

A police officer is going ahead with legal action against a petrol station owner after she tripped on a kerb while attending a suspected break-in, despite her father saying she planned to drop it.

A montage of images taken by the Voyager spacecraft

Out of this world: 35 years after mission to boldly go where no spacecraft has gone before - Voyager 1 'exits' Solar System

Probe has reached the edge of interstellar space, where no manmade object has gone before

Bob Geldof frontman of punk group the Boomtown Rats in 1975

The Boomtown Rats and other bands from yesteryear who have reformed recently

The Boomtown Rats, the new wave band which brought Bob Geldof to fame, are to be united once more as they join the many acts of yesteryear who have bowed to the temptation to reform.

Accrington Stanley appoint Leam Richardson as manager

Accrington have appointed Leam Richardson as their new manager.

Beastie Boys star Adam Yauch had no-advertising clause in will

He once fought for his right to party, and in death Beastie Boys star Adam Yauch is fighting to protect his music and image out of the hands of advertisers.

Simon Kelner: Unplugged, unenlightened and just un-British

It's possibly easier to come across a rock god than a black cab in London at the moment. First up was Bruce Springsteen, who found out what unplugged really means when his concert at Hyde Park was summarily curtailed after over-running his allotted time.

John Lydon keeps airwaves clean during Question Time performance

Punk pioneer John Lydon offered his own unique insight on the banking crisis when he appeared on current affairs programme Question Time.

'Rotten' John Lydon set for Question Time

Former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon is swapping anarchy for current affairs to appear on Question Time.

Album: Public Image Ltd, This Is PiL (PIL Official)

It's hard not to feel slightly disappointed by PiL's first new studio album in two decades.

John Lydon says he wanted to be a painter

John Lydon, the former Sex Pistol, would have "loved to be a painter", he says in one of a series of interviews with leading punk rockers to be aired in a BBC season entitled "Punk Britannia" next month.

John Lydon had to rebuild his relationship with his parents after meningitis robbed him of his memory when he was seven

I lost my memory to meningitis, reveals Lydon

The former Sex Pistol says 'cruel and tortuous' illness left him unaware who his parents were

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Hell hath no fury like an ego scorned

The NME editor has made a grovelling apology for her campaign against singer Ed Sheeran. Nadia Khomami looks at spats between popsters and the press

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Rupert Cornwell: What if Edward Snowden had stayed to fight his corner?

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'A man walks into a bar': Comedian Seann Walsh on the dangers of mixing alcohol and stand-up

Comedian Seann Walsh on alcohol and stand-up

Comedy and booze go together, says Walsh. The trouble is stopping at just the one. So when do the hangovers stop being funny?
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Comedian Tig Notaro: 'Hello. I have cancer'

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