GLAMOROUS Girls Aloud take a step back in time for the video of their new single release, The Promise. The retro look video, filmed at Shepperton Studios in Surrey, captures the atmosphere of a 1950s American drive-in cinema.

By Gary Flockhart FOR ones gifted to the planet through the curious voting pulses of a Saturday night television audience - and therefore expected to go spectacularly to pieces, with public backlash and rapid disintegration within a matter of months, a la Hear'say and One True Voice - Girls Aloud have not done so badly for themselves.

By Sarah Sands To tan or not to tan: that's the question that's been vexing women all week. The picture of Girls Aloud buddies Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh in the Daily Mail on Tuesday provided an unusually stark contrast. Women are not normally as pale as Roberts nor as tanned as Walsh.

WRINKLY Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell has found unlikely fans in Girls Aloud. Cheryl Tweedy, Nadine Coyle, Kimberley Walsh, Nicola Roberts and Sarah Harding have signed up as friends on the 66-year-old's MySpace website.

WOULD you like to meet Girls Aloud? The girls come to Glasgow's SECC on May 16 and 19, and you could be there thanks to the Razz and our friends at Sunsilk. We've got five pairs of tickets for each concert up for grabs in today's great Razz contest.