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Poor ticket sales cancel The Voice UK Live tour - BBC News

Chi Chi IzunduBy Chi Chi Izundu
Newsbeat entertainment reporter The Voice

The 11-date tour for The Voice UK Live has been cancelled due to a lack of ticket sales.

The gigs were due to feature eight of the show's finalists.

The Voice UK Live tour was to begin at the Bournemouth International Centre on 12 September and was then due to visit venues in Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, London, Glasgow and Sheffield.

Organisers say fans with tickets for the cancelled dates can get a refund.

A number of ticket outlets had only cited five dates as being axed earlier today (18 June), but organisers have confirmed that none of the scheduled dates will be going ahead.

In a statement, a spokesperson said: "Unfortunately, The Voice UK Live has been cancelled due to lack of ticket sales.

"Customers are advised to contact their point of purchase for ticket refunds."

The news comes as the show was criticised for failing to attract viewers.

Episodes of The Voice consistently attracted average audiences of more than 10 million in April, but the ratings had dropped to 4.5 million later in the series.

More than seven million people tuned in to watch 28-year-old Leanne Mitchell, from Lowestoft in Suffolk, be crowned the show's first winner.

Her single, a cover of Whitney Houston's Run To You, failed to make it into the top 40 of the Official Chart.



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Pitch, not politics the focus v Germany -- Greece - Football

Published: 19 Jun 2012 - 20:19:30

Greece on Tuesday played down any wider political significance of their Euro 2012 quarter-final tie against Germany, insisting that they will be more concerned about their opponents on the pitch.

Giorgos Samaras and Kyriakos Papadopoulos echoed Germany's Lars Bender by saying Greek disaffection at German attempts to impose harsh public sector cuts to curb spiralling debt had no part to play in Friday's match in Gdansk, northern Poland.

"We cannot entangle football and politics. It is bad to do that. Football is a game and we will play to enjoy it because we like it," Celtic forward Samaras told a news conference at the team's base near the Polish capital, Warsaw.

"We are not only playing for ourselves but for the 11 million Greeks back home. We managed to bring them joy by beating Russia and we hope to do the same on Friday," the 27-year-old added.

The Germany-Greece match is being billed as the "Debt Derby" by some, with widespread concern about the effect of Greece's dire financial straits on the eurozone -- and the Berlin-led battle to save it.

But Papadopoulos said that his team's close ties to Germany on the pitch will be an advantage.

"Certainly it is an advantage for some of the players on our team who play in the Bundesliga to be more knowledgeable about the players on the German team," said Papadopoulos, who plays for Schalke 04 in Germany.

"But we will face Germany, as we do every team, giving our best and hoping to win."

Samaras said that Greece had already achieved their goal of qualifying for the knock-out stages, which proves "we are among the eight best teams in Europe".

"Now we want to enjoy the tournament. If we advance further, it would be a dream but we cannot compare the current team with that of 2004 and our success."

Captain and 2004 veteran Giorgos Karagounis, for one, is out of the side through suspension after arguing with the referee over a penalty appeal in Greece's last match against Russia in Warsaw.

Samaras refused to divulge how coach Fernando Santos has been preparing them to take on Joachim Loew's much-fancied side, saying only that they had been keeping a close eye on them during the group stages.

"Everyone knows how good Germany is. We have to focus on our play, how we will be better and how we can best achieve the result we want. This is what we did with Russia," said Samaras.

Papadopoulos, who missed the Greeks' second game against the Czech Republic through injury, indicated that the team will not hold back.

"We have nothing to lose. We are playing against one of the best teams in the tournament. We will give our best and hope to succeed. Anything we gain from here on will be even greater," he told reporters.


AFP

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Obama campaign requests outside Republican group disclose donors - Reuters

By Alina Selyukh

WASHINGTON | Tue Jun 19, 2012 9:59pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic President Barack Obama's top campaign lawyer filed a complaint with the federal election regulator on Tuesday, demanding that the well-heeded and high-spending Republican advocacy group Crossroads GPS disclose its donors.

This is the latest Democratic effort to slow down Crossroads GPS, run by former aide to President George W. Bush Karl Rove, which plans to spend some $300 million alongside its sister "super" political action committee to help Republican candidates ahead of the November 6 election, largely through advertising.

Republican non-profit and "Super PAC" groups have been far outpaced their Democratic rivals in fundraising and spending, which expected to help presumed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney bridge the fundraising gap between his and Obama's election campaigns.

Crossroads GPS is organized under a specific U.S. tax law section that identifies it as a nonprofit social welfare organization, meant to educate the public and allowed to keep its donors private. The group also has a sister Super PAC American Crossroads, which discloses its donors monthly.

The Federal Election Commission, the elections oversight agency, is currently split along party lines and has repeatedly deadlocked on whether social welfare groups must disclose their donors if they engage in political activity.

"There has never been any doubt about its true purpose: to elect candidates of its choice to the presidency and Congress," Obama campaign lawyer Robert Bauer wrote in his complaint to the FEC, posted online by the New York Times on Tuesday alongside the letter to Crossroads GPS that accompanied it.

Obama's re-election is being helped by Democratic groups that enjoy a similar tandem relationship: sister organizations Priorities USA Action, the monthly reporting Super PAC; and Priorities USA, the non-disclosing nonprofit.

"Folks would do well to consider this a goofy sideshow until Obama sends the same letter to Priorities USA - the group modeled after Crossroads but which supports the president," Crossroads spokesman Jonathan Collegio said.

"In the end, Obama doesn't care about the campaign laws; he only cares about silencing conservative groups that are holding him accountable for his failed record."

Priorities USA Action has badly lagged Republican groups in the money game. The pro-Obama Super PAC had raised $6.1 million, while American Crossroads had raised $29.8 million, as of the end of April. These and other Super PACs are due to report their May fundraising on Wednesday.

FEC guidelines give the agency 120 days to act upon the complaint, putting the deadline less than a month before the election. No FEC action by then would mean the Obama campaign could file a more high-profile case in district court.

(Additional reporting by Alexander Cohen; editing by Todd Eastham)


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