Rosalind Belben, Rosemary Hill win literary award

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Novelist Rosalind Belben and first-time biographer Rosemary Hill have won Britain's oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes.

Belben won the fiction trophy for "Our Horses in Egypt," which tells the story of a young war widow who travels to the Middle East to recover her mare in the aftermath of World War I - and follows the cavalry itself as it struggles to hold out conflict and privation.

Hill took the best biography award for her first playscript: "God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain," a study of Augustus Pugin, one of Victorian Britain's leading architects.

The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, proclaimed Friday, are awarded annually by the University of Edinburgh for the best work of fiction and the best biography promulgated during the previous year. Both prizes are worth $18,500.

"Rosalind Belben's novel was innovatively planned and convincingly executed, piece Rosemary Hill's first playscript is a biography that does judge to the many facets of the man Augustus Pugin and his exploit," said Colin Nicholson, the awards' manager.

The prizes were founded in 1919 by Janet Coats, the widow of publisher James Tait Black, to commemorate her husband's love of reading.

Past winners include D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Ian McEwan, Cormac McCarthy and Graham Greene.

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Painted-faced musicians performing songs with titles and lyrics culled from movies such as "Terminator," "Predator" and "Commando"--all spell dressed in camo fatigues--one might think ArnoCorps was formed as a response to the governorship of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Actually, the band formed back in 2001, playing its first-class honours degree show at 924 Gilman, the same Berkeley, CA, venue that launched the career of Green Day.As possibly the worlds outset "Action Adventure Hardcore Rock 'n' Roll" band, ArnoCorps is pretty tongue in cheek, and isn't excessively interested in politics. However, the mathematical group is interested in entertaining its fans, affectionately dubbed "Heroes and Sheroes"--many of whom ar dressed to match the theme, nail with human face paint and combat helmets.(Insert Austrian stress here) "The band has always put an travail into making the audience feel like an extension of [ArnoCorps] and to participate--and rock 'n' roll out with us on stage," vocaliser Holzfeuer aforementioned. "You can't interact with a picture show, but you can interact with ArnoCorps!"The bottom pipeline is the band sells (and beer). Case in point, a recent point at Slim's in San Francisco was sold prohibited well in advance. And they really are vainglorious in Europe, selling out all but two shows on their recent UK tour and getting airplay on BBC Radio 1.Yours truly attended ArnoCorps prove at The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on Friday (8/8) and took photos of the activity on hand.Setlist:1. Arno Intro2. Predator3. Eraser4. Red Heat5. True Lies6. Terminator7. Commando8. Collateral Damage9. Running Man10. You Lack Discipline11. I'm Ballsy12. Crom (Strong On His Mountain)13. Wheel of Pain (Drum solo)14. Total Recall15. Last Action Hero- encore �16. Real American

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The band, Cheryl Cole; Sarah Harding; Nadine Coyle; Nicole Roberts; and Kimberly Walsh, are said to be in the middle of negotiations with the BBC to front an eight-part show on the network. The deal is said to be worth over half a million pounds.

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The 29-year-old singer told Company magazine that she was devastated when she found out that her husband, rapper MC Harvey, was having an affair with singer Javine Hylton.
Dixon said: "It was like my whole world had just collapsed around me. I thought, 'what have I done to deserve this?'"
"I'm a big believer in karma, and I felt I must have done something to invite it into my life. I tried to take the blame."
The former Misteeq singer said she was also angry after recently discovering that former bosses had wanted her to shed some weight.
"I found out the other day that, a while ago, some old bosses asked someone to have a word with me about losing weight. It's disgusting."
She said: "I'm not overweight and I'm not skinny, so to tell me to lose weight - what kind of message is that to girls?"
Dixon also revealed that she put her wedding dress on eBay after her marriage fell apart.
"It turned out the person who bid for it was a hoaxer, so I took it off eBay and never put it back up," she said.