Lily Allen's 'West End Girl' is a divorce album of such brutal honesty that it's compulsively listenable -- with great hooks and production on top of the shock value.

A man who stabbed an 11-year-old girl in a random knife attack in the West End will not face trial for her attempted murder, a court has heard. Ioan Pintaru, 33, of no fixed address, had previously pleaded guilty to wounding the girl with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and possession of a knife after the attack in Leicester Square last summer.

The British singer and songwriter’s new album, “West End Girl,” is a salacious autobiography. For pop fans hungry for real-life details, it’s proving irresistible.

Songs are grim portraits of living through disaster but a pop album is not the most suitable conduit for such heavy emotions