Squabbling Spice Girls are history - paper

LONDON (Reuters) - The Spice Girls' reign as the Queens of British pop has come to an end after band members Mel B and Posh dumped the group's manager, Britain's Sun newspaper reported on Monday.

The country's biggest-selling tabloid said internal squabbling had become so bad that the four Spices remaining in the hit 'girl power' band - Mel B, Mel C, Emma B and 'Posh Spice' Victoria Beckham -- would not even meet up as a group.
"The girls haven't actually sat down together and decided the band is over because some of them are not on speaking terms with the others," the tabloid quoted an "insider" as saying.
"But with four bickering stars and no one manager to keep them together, there is no chance of them carrying on. There is still a Spice Girl company, but that's just a technicality."

The band's fifth member Geri Halliwell, aka Ginger Spice, left the group in 1998. She has since enjoyed a string of hits as a solo artist, prompting her former colleagues to do the same although without the same degree of success.

Nobody from the band was immediately available for comment.