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Soul singer Adele has confessed that she is nervous about moving out of her mother's home and has predicted that she will be living on a diet of Pot Noodles as she does not know how to cook.

The 20-year-old has continued to live at home with her mother in London despite her growing success on both sides of the Atlantic.

Her debut album 19 has already won her a Brit award and it has also been nominated for this year's Mercury Music Prize.

Radiohead, Estelle and the Last Shadow Puppets will all go head to head in the competition to win the Nationwide Mercury Prize this year.

The shortlist of 12 nominated acts has now been published and the winner will be announced on Friday September 12th.

Debut albums such as Londoner Adele's 19 have been included alongside Elbow's fourth studio album The Seldom Seen Kid.

Blake Fielder-Civil, the husband of Grammy Award-winning singer Amy Winehouse, was sentenced to 15 months for causing grievous bodily harm and 12 months for trying to pervert the course of justice, totalling 27 months in jail, at Snaresbrook Crown Court in East London yesterday.

Fielder-Civil admitted helping to assault James King, landlord of the Macbeth pub in Hoxton, East London and attempting to bribe him to keep quiet about the incident using an offer of £200,000.

Judge David Radford noted that Fielder-Civil "had access to his wife's money" in order to fund the bribe plot, which would have seen King disappear to Spain had it been successful.

Luke Pritchard, the lead singer of The Kooks, has hit out at The Pigeon Detectives, claiming that bands like them have "diluted" the indie music scene.

The Kooks first came to prominence in 2005 after the release of their debut album Inside In/Inside Out.

Pritchard commented that the independent music scene in Britain was very exciting at the time but he feels that it has gone downhill since.

Lily Allen has had to scrap one of the tracks from her forthcoming second album because she stole the chorus from a popular song by boy band Take That.

The 23-year-old singer posted a brand new track, Who'd Of Known, on her official MySpace page on Sunday.

She has admitted that the refrain has been copied from the Take That 2007 hit single Shine, which has been one of the band's most popular songs since their revival.