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Richard West-Soley

Richard’s ESC history began way back in 1992, when he discovered the contest could fuel his passion for music and languages. Since then, it’s been there at every corner for him in some way or another. He joined the esctoday.com team back in 2006, and quickly developed a love for writing about the contest. In his other life, he heads the development team at the learning resources company Linguascope, and writes about all aspects of language learning on the site Polyglossic.com.

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Bookie's choice: Logan for Ireland

Three-time representative for Ireland, Johnny Logan, has emerged as the bookies' favourite to represent the Emerald Isle at the 2007

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Dima: sexiest guy in showbiz?

Eurovision Song Contest 2006 runner-up, Dima Bilan, is in the running to scoop the title Sexiest Guy in Showbiz in

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Sweden hosts minority language contest

An alternative song contest which aims to promote lesser-used European languages through song will air this Saturday 14th October from

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Orchestral hit for Ruslana

Ruslana surprised audiences across the Ukraine by conducting an orchestra through a brand new suite, written by herself, as part

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VRT take over Belgian JESC

Even though the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 has not yet taken place, it is already certain that Flemish broadcaster

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Tinka: Escada's new face!

Tinka, the Bosnian songstress who represented Switzerland at the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest as part of Six4One, has been chosen

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Belgium JESC: Half a million tune in

Over half a million viewers tuned in to see eight-year-old Thor! win the Belgian final for this year's Junior Eurovision

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Belgium sends Thor! to Bucharest

Eight-year-old Thor! has won the ticket to Bucharest to represent Belgium at the 2006 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Bucharest.

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Gina G hits Birmingham

Gina G, who sang Ooh… aah… just a little bit for the UK in 1996, hit former Eurovision Song Contest

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Forum offline : details

The esctoday.com forum, which has been offline for the last few days, will unfortunately be remaining offline for the foreseeable

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Tonight: Belgium selects for Bucharest

Tonight, after two semifinals, Belgian's selection for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 culminates in the grand final, after which

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'Nul points': Losers in the limelight!

A special new book is about to be launched next week, full of interviews with Eurovision nul-pointers of the past,

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JESC uncertainty for Montenegrins

Montenegro's participation at the forthcoming Junior Eurovision Song Contest still hangs in the balance, according to reports on eurosong.be. Steering

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Who wrote Brian's song?

2006 Eurovision Song Contest singer for Ireland, Brian Kennedy, has sparked controversy by crediting an Englishman as the co-writer for