Arctic Monkey r the best

Arctic Monkeys have won the Best British Band at the NME award.

It was the band's third prize of the night - they had already claimed Best Track ('Fluorescent Adolescent') and Best Video ('Teddy Picker').

Picking up the award from model Agyness Deyne, Alex Turner told the audience: "Thanks everybody and thanks everybody upstairs [where the competition winners were sitting] too. Ta, ta!"