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2017

The 62nd Eurovision Song Contest took place in Kiev in Ukraine.

In case you wonder why we use Kiev and not Kyiv, back in 2010, Reuters editor Robert Bessler responded to a reader’s query about the spelling.

“Kiev is not the Russian spelling. It is the commonly accepted English language spelling of the name,” he explained. “We are not writing in Ukrainian, we are writing in English, so we use commonly understood English names for cities – hence Munich rather than Muenchen, Cologne not Koeln, Rome not Roma, etc.”

But does she like children and old people? – Read on

Macedonian broadcaster MRT has gone for an all-round thoroughly "nice" girl for the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev: Jana Burcheska. "But who is she?" I...

BELGIUM – Thank you for being a friend, driving down the...

What? Not that Blanche? Not even the one from Corrie? One must fire one's researcher! <<Googles* "Blanche Belgium Eurovision 2017">> Ah ... It ... um ... appears that...

Albania – oooh look it’s a list of songs for your...

I appreciate that it's not a very exciting list, but here are the twenty-four songs that will excite you over the Christmas period. This...

From Junior to Senior – Netherlands promotes more Alum…

The rather clumsily named AVROTROS from The Netherlands caught all of the Eurovision world off guard (well me at any rate ... I was eating...

The UK at Eurovision … We used to be good once

For the fourth part of my look at the woes of the Big 5 we focus on the country of my birth, Estonia ......

Cyprus go to Schlager hell in a handcart

So in being first to show their hand CyBC lead the way for the class of 2017.  I’m not sure, though, they know what...

World-o-Vision? That vision seems distorted!

It seems that the world of the Eurovision internet has gone mad over some wording changes on the eurovision.tv website. Major internet players like...

Oh Albania, you rarely disappoint…. *

So, we're FiKing at it again. Will your Christmas ever be the same again? - probably not because once you have found one Albanian Final, you've found them all!

UK – Start composing … NOW!

The day has come. The UK - that bastion of good taste and great music - has, by the grace of God and the...

What’s that? – A new lick of paint?

Well you'll notice that after May, not a lot happened to the website until ... well ... about now really. We nearly had such an...