MURRAY SIZZLES AS LONDON NEARS

Andy Murray will head into the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals as arguably the hottest player on the planet after winning three consecutive titles during the Asian swing in Bangkok, Tokyo and Shanghai. He has won 25 of his past 26 matches.

Second seed Andy Murray won his third ATP World Tour title in three weeks in Asia as he retained his Shanghai Rolex Masters crown with a 7-5, 6-4 victory over third seed David Ferrer on Sunday.

Victory will see the 24-year-old Murray overtake Roger Federer at World No. 3 in the South African Airways 2011 ATP Rankings. It will be the first time since 7 July, 2003, when he won his first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon, that Federer has ranked outside the Top 3.

"My goal for the last three-four months after the US Open was to try to finish as high as possible and win as many matches as I could," said Murray. "It's obviously been a great start. But I'm still not guaranteed to finish at No. 3. I'm still going to have to win some more matches. But if you finish in front of Federer in a year, then there's not many people the last five, six, seven years that have been able to say that. So that's obviously a nice thing if I can do it."

Murray has now won 25 of his past 26 matches. The Scot came into Shanghai on the back of title runs at the PTT Thailand Open in Bangkok (d. Young) and the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships in Tokyo (d. Nadal), and prior to a semi-final loss at the US Open (l. to Nadal) had triumphed at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati (d. Djokovic).

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STONE ROSES ARE BACK!

Stone Roses re-form after 15 years with UK shows, promising to take it 'round the world'

After years of rancour, rumour and denial, The Stone Roses have finally confirmed what the world was waiting for - a reunion with at least two concerts next summer.

The Manchester group – widely considered to be among the most influential British artists of all-time - split up more than 15 years ago.

Guitarist John Squire and Ian Brown, boyhood friends who famously met in a sandpit aged four, stopped speaking altogether and most fans had long given up hope of ever seeing them perform together again.

But, after days of feverish speculation, the band’s four original members – Squire, Brown, bassist Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield and drummer Alan ‘Reni’ Wren – sat side-by-side in a London hotel to announce the ‘resurrection’ of the Roses.

Initially, they will play two shows at 75,000-capacity Heaton Park, in Manchester, on Friday June 29 and Saturday June 30, 2012.

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ADELE CONFIRMS ARENA TOUR PLANS FOR 2012

She has overcome her stage fright & will play London's O2 Arena next year...

Adele has announced that she will be embarking on her first arena tour next February.

Following the huge success of her sophomore album 21, the Someone Like You singer told crowds at her gig at London's HMV Hammersmith Apollo on Tuesday that it will be her last time playing such an intimate venue.

The 23-year old, who previously admitted to suffering from stage fright, told her audience: "This is the last time you'll catch me at a venue like this. These will be my last theatre dates as I'm moving on to arenas. I'll be at the O2 in February."

After being booed by the crowd, the Rolling In The Deep hitmaker added: "Too many people want to see my shows, I have to. Don't worry, I'll still get into the crowd and everything."

Adele resumed her UK tour last week after she was forced to scrap a series of shows after being struck with a chest infection.

Source: www.mtv.co.uk

MURRAY QUALIFIES FOR THE ATP WORLD TOUR FINALS

Scot qualifies for London season finale 2011

For the fourth straight year Andy Murray has qualified for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. After his five-set, second-round win over Robin Haase on Friday at the US Open, the British No.1 became the third player to qualify for the season finale, to be held November 20-27 at The O2 in London, featuring the world’s Top 8 players. Murray joins Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal as the other qualifiers.

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GLEE LIVE AT THE O2 ARENA

28, 29, 30 June 2011 - The O2 Arena, London, UK

Glee is playing 3 more nights at The O2 Arena in London! Our Marketing manager, Viviane Alcaide went to The O2 to check it out and loved the show. They interacted with the fans, walked through the audience and proved they can sing live as well as in the TV show.

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ENO TO STAGE OPERA ABOUT 1985 HIJACKING OF CRUISE SHIP ACHILLE LAURO

The Death of Klinghoffer focuses on murder of disabled Jewish passenger at hands of Palestinian paramilitaries

One of the most argued about operas of recent decades, based on the hijacking in 1985 of the cruise ship Achille Lauro by the Palestine Liberation Front, is to be staged by the English National Opera.

The ENO's artistic director, John Berry, said The Death of Klinghoffer was "probably the most controversial piece of the last 50 years". It focuses on the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound Jewish American passenger who was shot in the head during the hijacking and thrown overboard.

The John Adams opera comes to London next February, part of a season, announced on Tuesday, that is striking for the number of new productions – 11, including four by living composers.

Berry believes The Death of Klinghoffer is Adams' best work, though not staged enough because of its sensitive story. It has been denounced by the Klinghoffer family as exploitative and biased towards the Palestinians. The work is to be directed by one of the UK's brightest young theatre directors, Tom Morris (known for War Horse, he is now artistic director at Bristol Old Vic).

The finale of ENO's 2011/12 season will be Damon Albarn's Doctor Dee, directed by Rufus Norris and to be first seen this summer at the Manchester festival. It will be ENO's Olympic contribution, being staged as part of the London 2012 festival.

There are two works by living German composers in the lineup: Detlev Glanert's Caligula, which is more about dictatorship than just Roman decadence, and Wolfgang Rihm's Jakob Lenz, an exploration of schizophrenia that will be staged at the Hampstead theatre, London.

The other new productions include Fiona Shaw directing, in October, a new version of The Marriage of Figaro; Barrie Kosky directing Castor and Pollux, by Rameau, an 18th century French composer rarely staged in the UK; Deborah Warner directing Eugene Onegin; Richard Jones directing The Tales of Hoffmann; Jonathan Kent directing The Flying Dutchman; and, following his terrific success with Peter Grimes, two years ago, David Alden will direct Billy Budd, ahead of the Benjamin Britten centenary in 2013.

Berry said ENO was committed to presenting living composers and contemporary opera, showing "how the power of opera can explore politically and socially charged issues of the world we live in and most importantly, communicate and connect with modern audiences".

ENO is currently basking in the glory of a fantastically well-received Terry Gilliam directed opera, The Damnation of Faust, following a hit and miss record of using film directors.

The company is also reviving some of its previous hits, including Jonathan Miller's The Elixir of Love, Catherine Malfitano's Tosca, David McVicar's Der Rosenkavalier and Anthony Minghella's Madam Butterfly.

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