Klaxons beat Winehouse to Mercury Prize

Klaxons have won this year's Nationwide Mercury Prize.

The London band's debut album Myths of the Near Future beat off stiff competition from Amy Winehouse, Jamie T and last year's winners the Arctic Monkeys to take home the prestigious award.

The four-piece collected a cheque for £20,000 from Jools Holland during a ceremony at London's Grosvenor House Hotel.

Bassist Jamie Reynolds said: "The Mercury Prize is about pushing music forward and this is what we did."

Amy Winehouse made her first public appearance since checking into a US rehabilitation clinic at the event. The troubled singer performed an acoustic version of 'Love Is A Losing Game', a song from her Back to Black album, which had been nominated for the prize.