Norway's baby-faced fiddler wins Eurovision...

It wasn't quite her time, but Jade Ewen did her country proud when she earned the UK fifth place in the 54th Eurovision Song Contest 2009.

The Londoner's result was a significant improvement on last year's bottom-of-the-league rating, succeeding in reversing the UK's bad run of results in the contest with It's My Time by Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Diane Warren.

It raises hopes that the landscape of Eurovision's voting process has been changed - with votes being cast on acts' musical merit instead of for tactical reasons.

The last time the UK enjoyed victory in the competition was in 1997 when Katrina And The Waves won in Dublin with Love Shine A Light.

However the 21-year-old singer's effort failed to secure enough points to compete with record-breaking Norway, who was crowned winner in Moscow.

With a score of 387, singer and violinist Alexander Rybak beat 24 other contestants and broke the record for the most points awarded during the competition with his folk-inspired song Fairytale. 

The 23-year-old ethnic Belarussian, who grew up outside of Oslo, had been a pre-tournament favourite. This is the third time Norway has won the competition.

Iceland came in second with 218 points and Azerbaijan third with a score of 207.