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The pop trio - Heidi Range, Amelle Berrabah and Jade Ewen – and their label Island Records have filed a notice of opposition against group founder Mutya’s application to gain the rights to the name, which was logged in March with the European Trademarks Authority.

In a letter to the agency, Island Records stated that because of the “similarity of the goods and services” provided by the Mutya “there is a likelihood of confusion on the part of the public”.

All parties will now have to wait until a decision has been reached.

If Mutya’s application is ultimately successful she would have the rights to use the Sugababes band name to sell a variety of products, including CDs, DVDs, T-shirts and books.

Mutya, 24, founded the Sugababes with school friends Keisha Buchanan and Siobhan Donaghy in 1998, but quit in 2005 to pursue a solo career.

Heidi replaced Siobhan in 2001, while Keisha left in September 2009 and Jade took her place.

Heidi previously claimed she and the current line-up would have no problem keeping the name because their record company owns the rights.

She said: “Our record company owns the name so there are no conversations about who owns the name. I signed with Mutya and Keisha years ago, so we’ve still got the name.”

The two allegedly hooked up after the shy and retiring prince gatecrashed Imbruglia’s birthday party at the Kensington Roof Gardens in London recently.

The pair have been texting each other ever since, according to the NME.

Imbruglia split up with Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns in 2008.

Britney Spears is releasing the naughtiest song from her new album ‘Circus’ as her next single.
The troubled star is no stranger to controversy, making the announcement on her website last night.
‘If U Seek Amy’ will be the third single from her comeback album. In the offensive line, the 27-year-old chants: “All of the boys and all of the girls are beggin’ to / If You Seek Amy.”
Although seeming harmless at first, the title breaks down as ‘F**K ME’.
The controversial lyrics will outrage parent groups across the world.
When the album was released last month (December 2008), an Australian mother’s group reacted with outrage.
Worried mum-of-two Leonie Barsenbach said: “I was astonished and totally taken aback when I heard my five and seven year old kids walking around the house singing, ‘f**k’. When I asked them what it was, they told me it was Britney Spears. I was horrified.”
She continued: “I got them the Circus album because little kids are Britney fans, but there was no warning on the album and none of the songs listed had ‘f**k’ in the title.”

Despite no acts being announced yet, this year’s Glastonbury festival is close to selling out with 90% of the festival’s 137,500 tickets already gone, according farmer turned festival supremo Michael Eavis.

This must be quite a relief for the organisers as it was a different story last year. 2007’s event was marred by atrocious weather and 2008’s festival, with headlining performances by Jay-Z, the Verve and Kings of Leon, failed to sell out for the first time in ages. This year tickets were on sale in October which is six months earlier than usual.

Eavis boasted that four headliners had already been booked for the June event – one more than is usual: “We’ve got four headliners at the moment,” he said. “If they all confirm, then I’ve got two headliners for Saturday.”

Blur, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and the Kaiser Chiefs are the hot tips for this summer’s festival.

As if it wasn’t embarrassing enough merely being Geoff Hoon, the transport secretary has been barred from his favourite music festival, Latitude, after giving the green light to Heathrow’s third runway.

Hoon’s local festival in Suffolk (the politician has a holiday home nearby) has been attending the slightly hippy festival since it’s incarnation.

But now the Latitude director Melvin Benn has barred Hoon from the festival, explaining: “As we get a reputation as one of the greenest festivals on the circuit, it would be a bit strange to sell a ticket to a chap who’s just authorised a climate-wrecking new runway at Heathrow.”

Admittedly a great PR coup there - shrewdly spotting an opportunity to publicise his event by linking it to a topical news story and a popular campaign against an ugly bit of tarmac. Good on him. Here’s to Latitude 2009.

A momentous day for us all at Redvers Towers, we have reached over 1,000 friends on Myspace. Although perhaps small fry compared to Lily Allen et al, it is a momentous occasion for us and means that the word is being spread. Cheers to all of our fans. X

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