iwould expect stormzy.those people whose cut through to the psyche of everyday music fans, especially places like radio one. ed sheeran, even though he‘s one of the biggest p0p even though he‘s one of the biggest pop stars on the planet and his inclusion is a surprise because historically the mercury prize doesn‘t tend to go for exceptionally commercially successful pop stars. it's commercially successful pop stars. it‘s like edgy. in the maghreb it likes to represent the unknown, new acts, people coming through. ed sheeran is on his third album. this is the first met renomination he‘s got. thejudges when is the first met renomination he‘s got. the judges when doing their assessment earlier said he has mastered the modern pop song. he‘s mates with stormzy as well. they collaborated at the brit awards. he‘s collaborated with everybody. he's collaborated with everybody. he does like to have a singsong with everybody. unknown to me, a welsh indie allgirl band. everybody. unknown to me, a welsh indie all girl b

among the nominations for this year's mercury music prize are stormzy, the xx and ed sheeran and theching 0ne mzimba has been catching of the nominees are din joining one of the nominees are dinosaur, joining me, how does that feel? absolutely amazing, the mercury prize is so amazing, so many different types of music are celebrated. so many different types, your sound, what would you call it, electric jazz? your sound, what would you call it, electricjazz? maybe your sound, what would you call it, electric jazz? maybe we try and avoid thej word! it's the improvised a music, trumpet led. avoid thej word! it's the improvised a music, trumpet ledm certainly is jazz but something like this gives us a chance to appeal to access a wide audience. for me it's trumpet led instrumental music. everyone us can decide what the sticker is. how does it feel to be up sticker is. how does it feel to be up against artists like stormzy and ed sheeran who have a slightly higher profile than you, it would be fairto higher profile than you, it would be fair to say? i think ed sheeran should be careful bec

and how does it feel to go up against artists like stormzy and ed sheeran, who have a slightly higherket and trumpet is going to take over the world, let me tell you. irish singer— songwriter ‘s will be old news. i am joking, obviously. no, it is really fantastic. they are artists who are so fantastic. they are artists who are so dedicated to their craft and really worked on it over time and it is an absolute honour to be amongst these kind of names. it is amazing. and how important our awards like this in celebrating the album as an art ina this in celebrating the album as an art in a time when people stream or download individual tracks so much? yes, i think it is super important. it is such a statement of an artist to make an album. you put so much love and care into that and i think it is really important for that to continue in this time of streaming things for artist to be able to put out those big statements and awards like this really helped to celebrate that internal audiences onto it. let's speak to sam wolfson, who is a music critic and executive editor at vice magazine. he

it could be a pretty stormzy day, actually.pread, actually, across the uk. as mentioned, there could be the odd rumble of thunder with those showers. between those showers, there will be some brighter, sunnier spells. breezy conditions, as well. maximum temperature is up to 16 to 21 degrees. through this evening and tonight, showers will continue across scotland and northern ireland. there could be the odd shower elsewhere into the early hours of friday morning, but during friday, while it will stay showery across northern and western areas, elsewhere a dry start but then rain will move its way into south wales, south—west england, eventually into the midlands, south east england, as well. brighter skies further north, but into the weekend, belly u nsettled. but into the weekend, belly unsettled. breezy, some sunny spells, but also expect some rain at times. this is bbc newsroom live with ben brown. the headlines... the government has asked independent experts to produce a report assessing the costs and benefits of eu migrants,

music: blinded by your grace by stormzy feat mnek this is it, we're at the end of our trip.eel, especially with social media, we all have a voice and we all feel entitled to give our opinion, but a lot of the time, that opinion is uneducated. i think with the whole thing that's happening with trump, with modest fashion, it has actually moved it forward. like kanye used the first hijabi model. the designers are trying to make a statement and it's actually having a really positive effect. women of all faiths or no faiths are realising that they have another option out there, and i think that that is going to expand the industry for all of us. music: human by rag'n‘bone man i really hope, for muslim women, that it's going to reach a level where they can walk out of their homes choosing to dress however they want without fearing being attacked for that. and i think that hopefully, i'm hoping, we're working towards that direction. # i'm only human after all # i'm only human after all, don't put the blame on me # don't put the blame on me. saturday turned into the day of the downp

recently they had diversify and gone a bit more pop and worked with the uk artist stormzy. why? not as yet, i would not want to speculate. he was very close to chris cornell, who was the lead singer of soundgarden who died a couple of months ago. recently, chester wrote an open letter saying dear chris, you had talent unrivalled. your voice was joy and pain, angerand the unrivalled. your voice was joy and pain, anger and the deafness —— forgiveness wrapped up into one. today would have been chris's birthday. thank you. sir vince cable is the new leader of the liberal democrats. the former business secretary was elected to the job after no—one decided to run against him. the 74—year—old has replaced former leader tim farron, who stood down after the election. in his first speech as leader he called for an "exit from brexit". here's our political correspondent vicki young, her report contains flash photography. and our liberal democrat leader, vince cable. most would be relaxing into retirement at the age of 74 but not sir vince cable. he is still burning with ambition and fi

at number three, liv wishes stormzy would just shut up and chris contemplates his future rap career. screaming. what? really? oh, my god, it's so good to see you! absolutely speechless for the first time in my life. at number one, it was a busy old night on twitter whenjohnny ditched queen camilla of the villa and went in for the kill with tyler. you‘re very important to me and i would never bleep want to see you upset. i don‘t want to see you upset in a million years. there is no relevance of how i feel right now, to what you should then be pursuing with tyler. i want to stay like this for a week. what a smooth operator. precisely 7.3 seconds after mugging off camilla, he‘s away to pda with his new squeeze. kady mcdermott came third on last year‘s show. jeremy lumb can‘t stop watching the programme after his girlfriend introduced him to the show. sam taylor, who‘s the editor of britain‘s oldest women‘s magazine, thinks love island sets a bad example. and emma kelly is deputy entertainment editor at metro.co.uk. welcome. you met scott on the last series. are you still together? yes,

i mean, you've had stormzy talking about it quite a lot recently, which is great. yes, that's true.t in the way the government deals with black and ethnic minorities in mental health. i think there is a problem with institutional racism in the way that we take action and try to improve things because this problem doesn't affect the majority of people who live in this country. and i think therefore it becomes a minority issue as far as commissioners are concerned as well. we find that there is not the investment in research to try and improve the programmes that young men and women say that they want because equally there's not that investment, it's not considered the priority, and the priority tends to be, all the services tend to be geared towards white people. you know, the impact of day—to—day experiences of discrimination and racism, what they call micro—aggressions in research, you know, what that means is, if you go into a shop you are followed around because somebody thinks you are going to be taking something, or you are seen as a risk by people. it's that experience that we

and he isn't the only artist who's recently been dominating uk music — with the likes of drake, stormzyongs in the official singles charts top 100. the official charts company say they've changed the rules because they want the chart to be a "showcase for hit singles not album tracks" — and they want to continue to support new talent. but will it make any difference? let's now talk to ben beaumont thomas, who is the music editor of the guardian newspaper, and edward adoo, a broadcaster and dj. thank you both for coming in. what do you think, ben, is it a good idea to artificially manage what is going to artificially manage what is going to end up in the top charts? yes, it is an artificial gerrymandering of the charts. previously in the example that you gave of ed sheeran having 16 songs in the top 20, i thought this was a great moment of democracy for british music. it meant that people were expressing themselves through the download is that they bought on itunes and the songs they were streaming on spotify and other streaming services. they we re and other streaming services. they wer