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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.”

Final day of rehearsals!

Ok, so we’re off with the final day of press rehearsals, and it’s the hosts and the Big 5: we’ve seen these now so...

Phil Explains … Why your song didn’t win – Part 1

Spain - 26th - 5 Points Always start something like this with the easy ones. The song was trite and appalling. Manel clearly couldn't sing it...

Anja Nissen goes to Kiev!!

The Danes have done what so many other countries have done recently and sent an alum from TV talent show The Voice (in this...

Fusedemarc win after a long long long time in Lithuania

In a final that we have largely ignored - principally because we didn't understand it - Fusedmarc seem to have won the Lithuanian selection...

French finale

Our last to reveal is France, and I’ve been longing to see this since Alma was announced. I really adore this song, and have...
Live Blog

LIVE BLOG – Semi Final 1 – First dress rehearsal

Join us live here from 16:00 local time (2pm, UK/Portugal - 3pm Western Europe) to hear what we make of the first dress rehearsal...

They have never had a relationship at all have they?

It seems that the delegations are limiting what run-throughs the press centre sees today (can't think why eh Jacques...) because again it seems that...

Claudia Faniello gets breathless for Eurovision

It was wall-to-wall Borgs and Vellas at the Maltese national final. And that paid off for Claudia Faniello who topped the scoreboard with 'Breathlessly'. It's...

Latvia – Supernova Heat 1 Results

Eleven acts lined up, knowing the cull would show no mercy. Just four would escape the Eurovision trash can. Latvian TV launched a third season...

Lithuania – Do you really need the olympics to choose a...

As someone once said, it's not a sprint, it's a marathon, and despite shortening the course this year, LRT have decided on another huge...