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Tulisa has come under fire after apparently shouting abuse at a girl who greeted her boyfriend outside a club.

Tulisa was with her boyfriend Danny Simpson and they had hit Newcastle after Simpson had played in the Newcastle v Manchester City match.

A Swedish man has been awarded state disability benefits for his addiction to heavy metal music after a long campaign.

42 year old Roger Tullgren claimed: "I have been trying for 10 years to get this classified as a handicap.

The Government are planning to reform copyright laws which will finally make ripping music from CDs legal for the first time ever.

Currently it is technically illegal to create digital copies of music from CDs to allow transfer onto MP3 players but the Government’s Business Secretary Vince Cable has said: "Bringing the law into line with ordinary people's reasonable expectations will boost respect for copyright, on which our creative industries rely."

The race for the Christmas Number One in the UK is heating up and there are many exciting artist's and songs in the hunt. James Arthur, who prevailed as the X Factor winner, is in front right now, but does he have the staying power to hold the spot a week longer?

Adele has had a very good week having been named “Entertainer of the Year” by the Associated Press and has had her song “Someone Like You” named as the song people are most likely to sing on karaoke by website the Lucky Voice.

If you thought it was just a craze that would go away with time then you could be wrong as “Gangnam Style” could be entered into the Collins British Dictionary this year.

Lostprophets have responded to allegations of child sex offences against their front man Ian Watkins and have shown that they are equally as surprised as the public.

Radio 1’s Breakfast Show presenter Nick Grimshaw has been banned from doing one of his regular features on his show since the death of nurse Jacintha Saldanha.

In the feature “Call or Delete” Grimshaw gets celebrity guests to go through the contacts on their phones and choose one at random to either prank call or delete all together.

Jahmene Douglas has become the latest X Factor alumni to get a record deal with Sony music.

He joins fellow contestants Ella Henderson and Union J who appeared on the show with him this year.

The Official Charts Company has announced that Cheryl Cole and Carly Rae Jepsen have both become members of the “million seller’s club” by exceeding sales of a million with their songs “Fight for this Love” and “Call me Maybe” respectively.

It’s turning out to be a real battle for the Christmas number one spot this year with X Factor winner James Arthur’s single Impossible still selling extremely well after its peak week of sales.

Jessie J has been forced to postpone her UK arena tour in order to focus on completing her second album.

She was due to start the 17 date tour in Nottingham on 26^th February but now it has been set back until October.

Simon Cowell is reportedly going all out to make some big changes to help boost flagging ratings for the next series of the X Factor.

The latest news from the music mogul’s camp is that he has apparently approached and is in talks with Rihanna to get her to appear on the show.

To celebrate the Christmas reunion of Grease stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton, here are the greatest comeback hits of all time.

Kylie Minogue - Spinning Around

Christopher Maloney has been confirmed to be taking part in the X Factor tour despite his fellow contestants launching a Twitter campaign to get him replaced with Kye Sones.

He will appear on the tour along with show favourites Ella Henderson, Union J, Jahmene Douglas and winner James Arthur as well as other as yet unconfirmed acts.

Adele is in the running for another Golden Globe as it has been announced that her song Skyfall which she wrote with Paul Epworth has been nominated for best original track at the Golden Globe Awards 2013.

Police in America have managed to foil a plot to kidnap, murder and castrate Justin Bieber at a concert.

Two men, Mark Staake and his nephew Tanner Ruan have been arrested in connection with the twisted plan.

Nirvana enjoyed a rather unusual reunion at the 12/12/12 concert with Paul McCartney stepping into the role of lead singer in place of the late Kurt Cobain.

The concert was held at Madison Square Gardens and was held in order to raise funds to help people who were affected by Hurricane Sandy which ripped through New York in October of this year.

The X Factor contestants have finally had enough and are campaigning for Kye Sones to join them on the tour instead of Christopher Maloney who finished third in the competition.

The final straw was Maloney’s behaviour after he was eliminated from the show during the first night of the finals. He allegedly turned up late for rehearsals for the final group song stinking of booze and was intimidating to both the other contestants and production team.

The Spice Girls reunited last night for the premiere of the West End musical based on their songs, Viva Forever!

Mel B, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell and Mel C posed on the red carpet prior to the show with a notable absence of Victoria Beckham who blamed her lateness on traffic.

James Arthur’s X Factor winner’s single has become the fastest selling ever in the show’s history, beating X Factor heavy weights Alexandra Burke and Leona Lewis.

The official first day sales figures for the download version have been released by The Official Charts Company ahead of the song’s physical CD release on 11th December and shows that the Impossible has sold over 187,000 downloads.