So why has the music industry fallen in love with deluxe versions of albums?

The recent trend dates back to last year's special edition of Amy Winehouse's Back To Black, which contained live songs and her cover of The Zutons' Valerie.

"You had the bizarre situation of the limited edition charting at one position and the other version charting at another," the Entertainment Retailers Association's Kim Bailey says.

Record labels cottoned onto the wheeze and chart rules were relaxed in September, allowing deluxe and original versions of an album to count towards the same chart position.

Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad deluxe edition, which came out in June, also attracts the ire of Yahoo!'s Masterton.

Released more than a year after the original, which sold more than a million copies, the Reloaded edition had new artwork and three new tracks.

"Rather than getting her to record a new album, they just tacked tracks onto the back of the old album and re-released it," he says.

Universal UK's commercial director, Brian Rose, says: "If an artist brings incredible new content to us, we reserve the right to put it out and give the consumer more choice."

But he adds: "We will always aim to release the deluxe edition date on date with the standard edition."

But should fans be expected to spend £15.79 (recommended retail price) again on the same material to get the extras?
"It's a two-finger salute to the loyal 200,000 fans who raced out to buy the original in its first week," says Yahoo! Music's chart expert James Masterton.
"Fans are being punished. If you bought the original, you'd feel incredibly stupid. If only you'd put your money in the bank and spent it now."
The original version of Leona Lewis' Spirit has been bought by more than two million people in the UK since its release just over a year ago.
Now the repackaged release contains the same tracks as the original, but also has three new songs and a bonus DVD.
So what should people do with the CD they have already bought?
"Keep it!" said Leona Lewis in a recent BBC interview.
"The new stuff will be available on iTunes if they just want the songs."
But her cover of Snow Patrol's Run is not available as a single download until 1 December, two weeks after the deluxe edition album's release.
And fans miss out on receiving new artwork and the "making of" Forgive Me video, unless they buy the new version.
But Sony BMG says: "Deluxe editions are being led by fan demand."
"Leona hasn't done much new material in the last year. But there is a real hunger for new tracks from her."
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the ice, the team would put on survival suits and swim.

At the rear of one sledge is a mobile radar unit which will constantly measure the thickness of the ice.

Satellites have shown how the area of Arctic sea-ice has been shrinking in recent years, but this expedition should give scientists a better idea of how thin the ice is becoming.

The sea-ice is widely believed to be melting at an increased rate because of warmer air temperatures above the ice and because of warmer waters below it. The major scientific institutions and agencies that study the Arctic attribute the changes to global warming.

Only a few years ago, researchers predicted that by the end of this century the Arctic could be free of ice in summer. Some now say that could come far sooner.

Mr Hadow, 46, and the other members of the British Catlin Arctic Survey group, Ann Daniels, 44, and Martin Hartley, 40, will attempt to gather important new data about the state of the ice in winter and early spring - when the ice reaches its greatest extent.

It is intended to give scientists the very latest "ground truth", to better constrain their models and their interpretation of the observations coming from satellites.

Arctic ice modeller Professor Wieslaw Maslowski, a science adviser to the survey, hopes the data will enable him to refine his forecast of when the first ice-free summer might arrive.

Currently, he has it down for 2013 - but with an uncertainty range between 2010 and 2016.

Newsnight said the Obama administration had already told the UK government it would soon announce a substantial increase to its military forces in Afghanistan.
The programme said it understood an announcement could come next week, in time for a meeting of Nato defence ministers in Bratislava.
On the programme, Said Jawad, the Afghan ambassador to Washington, was asked if he could confirm that the United States would be sending more troops.
"We should wait for the official announcement by the US government but all indications are that President Obama is honouring the request by Gen McChrystal."
He was asked if that meant 40,000 to 45,000 extra troops.
"This is part of the request, yes," he said.
But Mr Gibbs said the president had "not made a decision".
He added: "I think that you can assume that the BBC will not be the first outlet for such a decision."
However he did say the US had been "coordinating our review with our allies" and that Mr Brown had "communicated to us their decision to send more troops" in a phone call last week.
"Obviously, the British people and those that serve there have borne an enormous price in casualties. Obviously, we're thankful for a strengthening of the coalition," Mr Gibbs said.
Mr Brown said he was prepared, in principle, to send an extra 500 troops to Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan - where Nato troops are fighting fierce battles with the Taliban - in response to military advice.
He said the reinforcements would happen only if troops had the equipment and training necessary to perform the tasks asked of them.
Given the conditions placed on their deployment, the BBC's defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt said it was unlikely the extra troops would be in Afghanistan soon.
But the announcement did send a clear message to the US as it reviews its Afghan strategy, she added.
Mr Obama has been considering future troop options after a request by Gen McChrystal, the commander of international forces in Afghanistan, for what has been widely reported as up to 40,000 more Nato troops.
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Activists have condemned the trials as a sham, saying they have lacked transparency and fairness.

A protest by Uighurs in Urumqi erupted into violence on 5 July, leaving at least 197 people killed and another 1,700 injured.

Shops were smashed and vehicles set alight and passers-by set upon by rioters.

Hundreds of people were detained after the violence and, according to Xinhua, 21 people have been charged.

Tensions between the mainly-Muslim Uighurs of Xinjiang and Han have been growing in recent years. Millions of Han have moved to the region in recent decades.

Many Uighurs want more autonomy and rights for their culture and religion - Islam - than is allowed by China's strict centrist rule.

According to a government white paper on Xinjiang, released last month, the July riots were caused by Uighur separatists promoting an independent "East Turkestan".

A Chinese court has sentenced a further six people to death over ethnic unrest in the far-western region of Xinjiang in July, state-run media report.

Nearly 200 people were killed during riots between ethnic Uighurs and members of China's dominant Han group.

The six were part of a group of 14 people who went on trial on Wednesday, charged with crimes including murder, robbery and arson.

A total of 12 people have now been sentenced to death after the riots.

The six were sentenced to death at a court in Urumqi, the regional capital of Xinjiang, Xinhua news agency reports.

In El Salvador, the picture is not quite so bleak.
The president of the Chamber of Commerce, Jorge Daboub, says that "so far, trade has been relatively normal".
But he warns that "there's always a risk, especially with riots in the capital Tegucigalpa" - a reference to the unrest that broke out there following protests calling for the reinstatement of Mr Zelaya when he returned last week.
However, Mr Daboub did admit that several assembly plants have been affected.
"Twelve-thousand workers have been waiting for 16 containers of raw materials from Honduras, but with the border closed, they run the risk of losing work," he says.
Trade between the two countries exceeds $18m a week. But trade with the US has also been affected because most exports to and imports from the US go through Puerto de Cortes, on the Atlantic coast of Honduras.
The current political impasse increases the risk of goods lorries becoming stranded in Honduras, especially at night, when the curfew comes into force in the capital.
One businessman had to kill thousands of poultry he was sending to Tegucigalpa because the Honduran military would not let the lorry through.
"They were in the boiling hot sun and gradually started dying, so he decided it was better to drown them in the river," Mr Daboub explains.
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Last of the Summer Wine Star Bill Owen has been laid to rest in the Yorkshire village of Holmfirth, the setting for the popular TV series he cherished.

The 85-year-old, who played Compo, died last week after losing his battle against cancer of the pancreas.

His final wish was to be buried in the village he had grown to love over the 26 years he had worked on the hit BBC comedy.

His family carried out that request after a low-key service at nearby St John's Church, attended by 20 friends and relatives.

The mourners included Peter Sallis, who played Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine and Roy Clarke, the show's creator and writer.

After the service, Mr Sallis, who was representing the rest of the cast and crew, said:

"It's very sad. But it was a lovely service and Tom, his son, spoke beautifully. It's 20 years ago when we sat up here by the church filming when Bill turned to me and said this is where he wanted to be buried."

Before the service Tom Owen had asked that would-be on-lookers stay away, adding that memorial services would be held later in Holmfirth and London.

Even so, about two dozen fans of the programme gathered outside the church.

Others laid flowers by a statue of Compo outside the cafe used in the programme

And Mr Clarke said a fitting tribute to the actor would be to continue filming Last of the Summer Wine: "I've been touched and pleased by the tributes made to Bill.

"It's very nice to know how far he went into people's hearts. The best thing I can do for him is to keep the show going."

Mr Sallis also said he hoped the series had a future: "We cannot slide down hills on pin trays anymore. But the series has its own strengths and I hope it will continue."

This week's release is a different case, with nothing in exchange. Israel says the aim is to boost the standing of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
According to the head of Shin Bet security service, quoted by Haaretz newspaper, the move also seeks to pressure the militant group Hamas towards a deal for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, snatched from the Gaza border more than two years ago.
The Shalit family are not the only ones anxiously following the negotiations for his release.
Nemer Mohammed Youssef al-Sharadha, now 28, was nine when his father was jailed for three life sentences plus an additional 30 years.
Speaking from his home in Gaza, he said the family was "waiting on red coals" because the father of four, Mohammad, is on a list of prisoners Hamas wants released as part of a deal for the return of Gilad Shalit.
Mohammad was sentenced for the deaths of two Israeli soldiers, during operations he took part in as a member of Hamas's military wing, Nemer said.
Although the organisation has long targeted civilians, he says his father never did.
"What my father has done is a normal reaction of any person in any occupied country," he said.
"After spending 20 years in Israeli jails, he deserves to be released."
In the eyes of many Palestinians, including Um Ali, there is an imbalance in the whole situation:
"Israel kills lots of Palestinians every day," she says. "Why do we have to be punished when they are not?"
This is a widespread feeling among Palestinians, and does reflect the Palestinian death toll during some periods in the conflict, though Palestinians have also killed many Israelis.
An Israeli human rights group estimates that approximately 4,850 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict since 2000. Over the same period, about 1060 Israelis have been killed by Palestinians.
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