IRISH singer and TV entertainer Val Doonican has died aged 88.

His family told the BBC that he died “peacefully” on Wednesday night.

The crooner was a big star in the 1960s and was a regular fixture on the BBC with the Val Doonican Show, which featured singing performances by artists.

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He was married to Lynnette with whom he had two daughters.

Arctic Monkeys fought off competition from Foo Fighters, Taylor Swift and Arcade Fire to be voted Best Live Act of the Year at the O2 Silver Clef Awards.

Alex Turner, Jamie Cook, Nick O’Malley and Matt Helders scooped the coveted prize, the only award voted by the public.

The rock group said: “Thanks to everyone who voted for us and helped us win this year’s Nordoff Robbins Best Live Act Award at the O2 Silver Clefs. It’s a real honour to be chosen.”

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They join previous winners Justin Timberlake, One Direction, McFly and Sir Paul McCartney.

AMY filmmaker Asif Kapadia has said he hopes the documentary will make people think about the effect they may have had on the singer before her death.

The film looks back over Amy Winehouse’s life before she died aged 27, using archive footage that sees her talking about her own career.

It has not had the support of her parents who didn’t like an early version they were shown, but Kapadia said he was hoping to show a new side to the troubled singer.

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He said: “The aim of our film was to try and understand why things panned out the way they did and to try to show the real Amy. The first section of the film, you see a side of her that no one’s really seen before.”

ROBIN Thicke is blaming the break-up of his marriage as the reason he and Pharrell lost the Blurred Lines plagiarism lawsuit.

The singer revealed in his first interview since the case was lost in March that a deposition took a backseat to his crumbling marriage.

Robin split from his childhood sweetheart, actress Paula Patton, in 2014 and their divorce was finalised in March this year, at the same time as the legal dispute with Marvin Gaye’s children, who claimed the number one hit was a copy of the soul singer’s Got to Give It Up.

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He and Pharrell were later ordered to pay nearly 7.4 million dollars (£4.7 million) to three of Gaye’s children after a jury determined the performers had copied elements of the R&B icon’s 1977 hit Got to Give It Up for Blurred Lines.