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MODS BEAT M.O.D.: In news that will lighten the heart of Ocean Colour Scene fans everywhere, attempts by the Ministry of Defence to stop clothes shops and bands from using the RAF roundel have failed. Rather like the case (see below) of Frank Zappa's Missus bringing legal action over ten-year-old furniture adverts, the real puzzler here is why the MOD suddenly got itself all excited about a logo that surely hasn't been used on an item of clothing since Britpop started to become a bit of an embarrassment (i.e. the London Swings Again edition of Vanity Fair's publication date). Maybe Suede singing the line "it's the t-shirts that you choose/ like you're in the air-force" alerted them to the problem. Or perhaps the British military is planning on launching its own leisurewear range. Then again, it could be in the public's best interests - imagine how it would be if you were wearing an Ocean Colour Scene tshirt in a foreign country, and got captured because they saw the roundel and assumed you were an airman who had been shot down. It could happen, you know. Mind you, then you'd be taken off to a camp and treated as an enemy combatant under the Geneva Convention. Whereas if they realised you were just someone who thinks The Day We Caught The Train is a great piece of music, you'd be buried up to your neck and pelted with stones.