Mercury Prize increase of their album "The Seldom Seen Kid" after winning the Prize in 2008. In their winner's speech, Elbow's frontman Guy Garvey said that winning the Mercury Prize was 'Quite literally the best thing that has ever happened to us'. Similarly, sales of The xx's winning album rose by 450% the day after they won the 2010 Mercury Prize and 2013 winner James Blake saw a 2,500% sales increase on Amazon after he was announced as the winner of the 2013 Mercury Prize. 2011 winner PJ Harvey's album "Let England Shake" jumped from number 181 to 24 in the UK
East Kent Mercury and Dover Mercury East Kent Mercury and Dover Mercury The East Kent Mercury and Dover Mercury are weekly newspapers serving the district of Dover in Kent. The "Dover Mercury" covers the town of Dover, and the "East Kent Mercury" the towns of Deal and Sandwich. They are owned by the KM Group and are published on Thursdays. The "East Kent Mercury" was founded in 1865. The KM Group bought the "Mercury" in 1980 from Kent County Newspapers. The "East Kent Mercury" was originally designed to serve the entire district of Dover, however in 1998 the "Dover Mercury" broke away from the "East Kent