So rumours abound that Rough Trade might be sold from EMI over to UK Indie Beggars Banquet - home of White Stripes and Dizzie Rascal. They've long been the UK's leading Indie label (fact 45b: Ministry of Sound doesn't do real music).

Could the Beggars Banquet group be be moving from being quiet a big Indie to a really big Indie? They're already encompassing 4AD, XL, Mowax, Mantra, Matador, Too Pure and Wiija. With support from a private consortium and maybe picking up some more of Sanctuary's troubled divisons, they be looking at a move to being more little more Major.