RE-ENERGISED pop poppets Sugababes have extended their sell-out 20-date UK tour next year, announcing eight extra dates including the BIC on April 21.

Tickets go on sale on November 2 at the BIC box office and online as the 'Babes celebrate their recent chart-topping album Change and single About You Now.

As pop pundits formed unseemly queues to write Sugababes off a couple of years ago, their singles album, Overloaded, breathed new life into the band along with newest member Amelle Berrabah joining Keisha Buchanan and Heidi Range.

Formed in 1998 by school chums Keisha and Mutya Buena, the group is now recognised as the most successful female act of the 21st century, having released 18 singles, six of which have made number one.

They've had more top 10 singles than the Spice Girls, Destiny's Child or Bananarama - and more top 10 hits with original songs than any other girl group since The Supremes.

Should be a hit-packed night at the BIC next April then.