With Sandie Shaw's 'Puppet On A String' back in the charts via an homage-paying sample, we look back at the song that gave the United Kingdom its very first victory at the Eurovision Song Contest.

Last week, Jade debuted her new song Angel Of My Dreams, which opens with a distorted version of Puppet On A String, which is then sampled throughout the song.

Like, ‘It wasn’t me – it was the puppet! ‘ ” Although puppetry in this country has been very children-oriented, puppets from overseas have usually gone in for political or social commentary.

Handspring Puppet Company, the multi award-winning team of puppeteers and dramatists, has committed its process to paper at exactly the right time.

He's like a puppet on a string and will do only what his handlers tell him to do. He is good at being friendly with communist dictators and well practiced in bowing to royalty.

A mum was diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder after she developed physical Tourette's-like tics which made her feel like a "puppet on a string". Jo Mason, 42, initially had migraines and ...