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By Jade Wright MATHEW Street Festival is fighting for its life. Livefest is no more. So it hasn't been the best week for music on Merseyside. What are your views? Log onto the online page http:// musicblog.merseyblogs .co.uk and let me know what you think.

By JAKE COYLE Kevin Bacon has started SixDegrees.org, a social networking site for charity that trades on the famous game based on the actor's ubiquity. The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon held that any actor could be connected through films to Bacon within six links.