'Gordon Brown travels to United States for summit with President Obama' ran the tagline on News 24 throughout Monday evening. Still can't quite get used to that Pesident Obama. But that's what you call a high class problem.

Date: Thursday 26th February 2009  
Location: The Drum, Birmingham

The panellists were Michael Mumisa, a graduate in classical Arabic literature and classical Islamic sciences and theologies, Muneera Rashid and Sukina Abdul Noor who form the group Poetic Pilgrimage and Ismaeel Yasin and Rakin Fetuga who are from the group Mecca2Medina. 

 With nearly 100 treatments to sift through, the massive judging panel - Riz Ahmed (Shifty, Road To Guantanamo, Brits), Adam Deacon (Adulthood, Dubplate Drama), Andy Noble (Warp Films),  Amplify, Ctrl.Alt.Shift, Little White Lies, Clash and LIVE - had to fight it out. 

“I watched two embarrassed St Bernard dogs pad through the snow yesterday, each with a pink copy of (the Financial Times) tied under its neck”. An interesting sight from a canine savvy journalist (how can a dog look embarrassed?) reporting from The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Kieran Yates caught up with Grime MC Tinchy Stryder to discuss his views on being seen as a role model.