IT'S popular to pour scorn on everything to do with Eurovision and take a very lofty tone but I love the new UK entry.

Pop group Scooch, with their kitch airline steward outfits and cutesy dance routine, sang their way to success with the novelty song "Flying the Flag".

It's that ideal Euro offering: gloriously catchy rubbish. You wait, you just won't be able to help humming the damned thing and, on that basis, we can probably look forward to success in Helsinki in May.