PETE DOHERTY - DOHERTY DUMPED BY RECORD LABEL

Troubled British rocker PETE DOHERTY has been ditched by his record label for being "too difficult to deal with". Rough Trade, which have launched acts such as THE SMITHS and THE STROKES, have announced BABYSHAMBLES no longer have a contract with them after Doherty's string of drug convictions finally took the toll on their patience. Doherty's once promising career has been overshadowed by arrests, drug abuse and his fling with the supermodel KATE MOSS. His un-predictable behaviour has meant many in the industry despair of dealing with him. The band's debut album DOWN IN ALBION received mediocre reviews upon its November (05) release and failed to make an impression in the British charts, entering at number 10 and only selling 110,000 copies in the past six months. An insider tells British newspaper The Independent On Sunday, "Rough Trade were in the process of renegotiating a deal, but the talks broke down because it just proved to be so difficult to deal with Pete and the people he surrounds himself with."