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HMV collapsed into administration and closed stores across the country, but Britain's beloved music business is on a comeback driven by vinyl-loving Gen Zs fed up of streaming - and now plans to expand into Europe and Canada

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 5, 2024
HMV is back, just a decade after defunct as young music enthusiasts abandon streaming in favour of vinyl and physical media, according to one of its bosses. Generation Z, according to Phil Halliday, the firm's managing director, is assisting the once-ailing chain in resurrecting its position as one of the High Street's most recognizable and dependable shops. Vinyl has seen a revival in popularity, with record sales in the 21st century hitting new heights last year - although many people are still suffering from'streaming exhaustion.' This, as well as a dramatic rise in cassette sales, that Mr Halliday says has left HMV'very optimistic' about the future, it's this. As a result of record-breaking sales, the company, which was once forced to close down stores and layoff employees, is now planning an exciting expansion into Europe and Canada.

Do YOU know your Adam and Eve from your Ruby Murray? Take the Cockney Slang quiz to see how you do

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 4, 2023
Market traders, costermongers, and street hawkers all invented the Cockney rhyming slang in London's East End in the 1840s. It's either accidental or deliberately developed, to this day, it's unclear if or not the words came about as a result of a linguistic accident or deliberate. Rhyming slang is used to obscure sentences with the first word of a term that rhymes with the word. Cockney words have made their way into the English wordbook, as many are still used in London and others around Britain centuries since they were first invented.

In her latest book, Sue Barker finally lays bare the game, set and match of her affair with Cliff Richard

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 2, 2022
Sue Barker and Cliff Richard (pictured left and right) were in a relationship for only a short period of time in the 1980s, but their fling is now being discussed 40 years later. Although they were seen celebrating in public (right), Cliff decided they were unlikely to marry, even though he said he adored being with her.' The Press picked up on it as they began spending more time together, but Sue Barker drew the news. Although she had worked with Greg Norman in the 1970s, she had never experienced Cliff's media hysteria.