Burial, Elbow and Radiohead are amongst the bookies favourites to walk away with the Mercury Music Prize in London later.

Burial, who was recently unmasked as Will Bevan, is 4/6 favourite to win the award, while Elbow and Radiohead are at 5/1 and 7/1 respectively.

The Last Shadow Puppets, the side-project of Alex Turner and Miles Kane and an early favourite to win the prize for their, have dropped to 14/1 for the award.

Current outsiders include Adele and Estelle, who are both 33/1, and the Portico Quartet at 40/1.

(by Jason Gregory)