David Bowie becomes oldest winner of a Brit Award
David Bowie has become the oldest winner of Brit Award, taking the best British male solo artist prize at the age of 67. The Arctic Monkeys and Ellie Goulding also won prizes at the ceremony.
Brits ceremony smashes Twitter record
Social networking site Twitter revealed the Brits ceremony smashed all their records to become the most tweeted about TV show ever in the UK - with 2.17 million posts. A further 2 million messages were sent by music fans for the award ceremony's first Twitter live vote.
The tweets won One Direction their gong for best video, which came as no surprise because of their huge social media following.The most retweeted tweet came from band member Harry Styles whose message of thanks to fans was reposted more than 130,000 times.
The show also set a new tweets-per-minute record for a UK TV show with 78,000 tweets every 60 seconds.
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David Bowie best British male at Brit Awards 2014
David Bowie was named best British male - an award he last won 30 years earlier - beating acts such as Jake Bugg and Tom Odell.
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Brit Awards 2014: The nominees
Here are the nominees hoping to take the honours at the Brit Awards 2014.