LONDON (Reuters) -Rocker Sam Fender won the Mercury Prize for his third album "People Watching" on Thursday, beating the likes of band Pulp and singer FKA Twigs for the British music award. Loud cheers erupted when the 31-year-old's name was called out at the ceremony in the northern English city of Newcastle, just a few miles from Fender's hometown of North Shields. "We did not expect this at all, I want to say thank you to… I cannot think," the singer said, before praising his fellow nominees and paying tribute to his late friend, actor Annie Orwin, who inspired the title track. "This region is the best region in the country." Judges praised the chart-topping record's "cohesion, character and ambition", adding "it felt like a classic album". Fender was previously nominated in 2022 for hi

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