'Anglia Square Not Leicester Square' is the slogan of a campaign trying to encourage producers to hold the premiere of the Alan Partridge film Alpha Papa in Norwich.

“Anglia Square Not Leicester Square” is the slogan of a campaign trying to encourage producers to hold the premiere of the Alan Partridge film Alpha Papa in Norwich.

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Video: Isle of Wight Festival bands

Watch the videos below to listen to tracks from bands who played the Isle of Wight Festival this year.

The rain turned the Isle of Wight Festival into a mudbath

Isle of Wight festival organisers promise no repeat of last year's chaos as revellers board ferries for the 2013 event

Thousands of music-lovers have been piling on to ferries to the Isle of Wight for the first of the major summer music festivals.

Shaken and stirred: Ian Brown of The Stone Roses

Music review: The Stone Roses, Finsbury Park, London

Fearless, if flawed, second coming for band that defined a generation

Video: Film trailers for the latest releases

Watch the videos below for a selection of trailers for the latest releases:

Video: Film trailers for the latest releases

Watch the videos below for a selection of trailers for the latest releases:

Steve Mason

Steve Mason, King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow

On an evening where the big news of the week was still a live talking point, there was precious little sympathy in a famed back room in Glasgow. “Did you hear what Frankie Boyle said about Thatcher?” asked Steve Mason, sometime Beta Band singer and now the proud-owner of an alias-spattered solo career which has recently taken a turn for the incisively political. It’s the old gag about spending the public money earmarked for the late former PM’s funeral on spades, then “everyone in Scotland can dig a hole and deliver her to Satan in person.”

Paul Weller has been added as the latest act to appear at the Isle of Wight Festival

'Modfather' Paul Weller joins Isle of Wight festival bill

"Modfather" Paul Weller is the latest act to be added to the bill for this year's Isle of Wight Festival.

The Killers set to headline Isle of Wight festival

Anthem-rockers The Killers have been named as the last headliner for next year's Isle of Wight Festival.

My Fantasy Band: Marcus Haughton Theme Park

'He's a bit of a curveball. We'd have to rein him in a bit'

Stone Roses to play Isle of Wight Festival

The Manchester rockers will headline in June 2013

V Festival, Hylands Park, Chelmsford

If you are expecting a deep and meaningful experience from a music festival like glastonbury or Green Man, you’re not going to find it at V.

Coronation Street bosses change canal plot after Stone Roses fan death

The producers of ITV soap Coronation Street have axed a storyline with similarities to the recent death of a Stone Roses fan.

T in the Park, Balado, Near Kinross

When Glastonbury takes a year off, smaller festivals have a chance to mark out for themselves as much of the massive void left behind as possible.

Still mad for it after all these years… Stone Roses return to Manchester

The band – and 70,000 fans – look a little wrinklier, but the spirit of the 1990s still rocks

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

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