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.

STEPPING OUT: Models take to the catwalk at Leasowe Castle; SUPPORT: Nicola Roberts of Girls Aloud with Dani Sutton, owner of La Boudoir Boutique, at the fashion show in aid of Chorf GIRLS Aloud star Nicola Roberts made a guest appearance at a charity fashion show in Wirral last night.

By FIONA MAY GIRLS Aloud have hit out at Pete Doherty and Amy Winehouse for making kids think it was cool to take hard drugs. Cheryl Cole, 24, claimed youngsters got the wrong idea when they saw images of the stars with needle marks in their arms. She added: "It's not f***ing funny.