Hawley has no regrets over Robbie offer

Richard Hawley has insisted he does not regret turning down an offer to write songs for Robbie Williams.

The Mercury Music Prize nominee feels the move would have been a step in the wrong direction, although he admits the financial benefits would have been great.

He says: "It's a different world all that. It would have been like winning the lottery. But it would also have been like taking whatever scant wisdom I've developed in this short life and throwing it away."