MTV - THE REAL WORLD RETURNS TO PHILADELPHIA

LATEST: MTV's hit reality show THE REAL WORLD in back in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after the end of a row with local unions.

Show producers and labour leaders negotiated a deal yesterday (23MAR04) to bring it back to the city - one week after BUNIM/MURRAY PRODUCTIONS left the area amid a clash with the city's powerful unions.

The parties had been negotiating since Friday (19MAR04) in Mayor JOHN STREET's CITY HALL office. Details of the agreement have yet to be released.

Bosses of the Real World's 15th series packed up on 16 March (04), three weeks after arriving, amid a dispute over its hiring of non-union labourers to work on the building where the cast of seven strangers would be thrown together and have their lives videotaped.

The column-fronted former bank in the trendy Old City neighbourhood was 70 per cent finished in its conversion to a swanky loft when work halted.