Sophie Ellis Bextor clears it up

Rushing to Twitter, Fab Sophie corrects the wrong impression a BBC interview might have given:

i forgot to say I HAVEN'T COLLECTED STAMPS SINCE I WAS 8. just to clear that up

That's a night spent steaming definitives off envelopes wasted, then.

Licking the back of Bobby Gillespie's head

I'm surprised the Royal Mail are even bothering to release a series of classic album stamps, because obviously the kids will just download them and put their own glue on the back.

Still, it's quite fitting that Paul Cannell - whose Screamadelica cover is one of the chosen titles - will have his art given a national platform. On the other hand, anyone sends me a letter with Coldplay's A Rush Of Blood To The Head in the top right corner will find it being returned unopened.

Darkness at 3AM: Fill latterly

The 3am Girls report on some great work for charity that Ronan Keating has done:

Ronan Keating's kids clearly have him licked... To celebrate Father's Day, the saccharine star has donated photos of his children to Royal Mail to be turned into stamps. Anyway, didn't kids used to have to shell out their pocket money to buy dad a gift?

I'm not sure any of this makes any sense - why would the kids lick Ronan if they're on the stamps? Wouldn't it be the other way round? And it's not like Ronan has done this as a gift to his children in lieu of a father's day present anyway, is it?

It doesn't help that 3AM seem to have misunderstood the story on which they're reporting - Keating has made one of those sets of Smilers books of stickers and stamps in to be auctioned on eBay in aid of Barnardo's; not quite what the Mirror team is suggesting.