Folk singer Polwart wins treble
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Scottish folk singer Karine Polwart wins a trio of prizes at this year's BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
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Padraig Harrington of Ireland won the British Open here on Sunday.
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Aiyegbeni Yakubu earned Portsmouth a deserved 1-0 victory over Tottenham at Fratton Park with only the second away goal conceded this season by the White Hart Lane outfit.
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The band Franz Ferdinand of Glasgow, Scotland, has won the annual $35,000 Mercury Music Prize for the best British or Irish music act.
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Sotogrande - Ian Poulter beat Sergio Garcia with a par on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff to win the Volvo Masters at Valderrama on Sunday.
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Leona Lewis wins the live final of X Factor, beating teenager Ray Quinn to a Â£1m recording contract.
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Sport: Craig Pickering registers an emphatic 100m victory at the European Cup in Athens.
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The Arctic Monkeys, who shot to fame on   the Internet and broke all records with their debut, won the   coveted Mercury Prize on Tuesday for the Best British album of   the year.
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ELMONT, New York  - Rags to Riches became the first filly to win the Belmont Stakes in 102 years when she won a thrilling stretch duel with Preakness champion Curlin on Saturday to triumph by a head.
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FREUDIAN slip by wannabe popster, the &quot;cultured&quot; minister, who, in his press release yesterday, congratulated the well-known Scots singer Frank Ferdinand on his Mercury music prize win.
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Scottish art pop triumphed over female soul as Franz Ferdinand won the Mercury music prize last night for their debut album. The Glaswegian four-piece, who guest-edited G2 earlier this year, were the clear
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Scotland&#39;s Stephen Gallacher won for the first time on the European tour, beating Northern Ireland&#39;s Graeme McDowell on the first playoff hole Sunday at the Dunhill Links Championship.
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ENGLAND&#39;S Ian Poulter beat Sergio Garcia in a sudden death playoff to win the Volvo Masters overnight, the European Tour&#39;s season ending championship.
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US rock star Bob Dylan wins Spain's Prince of Asturias Arts Award - one of the country's most prestigious honours.
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Yusuf Islam, the singer formerly called Cat Stevens, wins substantial libel damages from two UK newspapers.
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Franz Ferdinand scooped this year's Mercury Prize, the most prestigious musical award in the United Kingdom.
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The Mercury Music Prize, the record industry&#39;s equivalent of the literary world&#39;s Booker prize, was won last night by Franz Ferdinand, a four-piece rock band from Glasgow.