Turner Prize awarded to Simon Starling

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THE WINNER of this year's Turner Prize is Simon Starling, a Glasgow-based artist whose imaginative installations will dispel accusations by critics that Britain's most well-known and controversial art prize was becoming "boringly mainstream".

Starling, 38, a graduate of Glasgow School of Art, was awarded the �25,000 prize during a live Channel 4 programme from the Tate Britain in London last night. He beat the favourite, Gillian Carnegie, tipped to win with her series of "bare bum paintings".