Day: March 10, 2011

UK NEWS: FOOTBALLER JERMAIN DEFOE WINS THE RIGHT TO BUILD A £4.5 MILLION MANSION

March 10, 2011

Late last year I posted the news that footballer Jermain Defoe and his mother Sandra St Helen planned to build a nightclub in the basement of a plush Essex mansion, a long with a cards room, an underground swimming pool, giant hot tub and hair salon. Well today the Evening Standard reported that Jermain ‘has won the right to build a customised £4.5 million Essex “palace” – complete with its own nightclub – despite fierce opposition from his new neighbours. Planners have passed […]

UK NEWS: JUDGE RUGBY TACKLES RAPIST TRYING TO FLEE FROM COURT

March 10, 2011

Via The Evening Standard The judge who rugby-tackled a convicted rapist as he tried to escape from his court said he would not think twice about doing it again. Judge Douglas Marks Moore, 61, leapt from the bench in his wig and robes to stop Paul Reid’s fourth escape attempt. The serial sex attacker was in the middle of a rape trial when he was apprehended by the judge, who is a former Irish guardsman. Judge Marks Moore played down his courtroom […]

UK TV: SKY’S BRAND NEW YOUTH CULTURE SHOW ON PICK TV

March 10, 2011

Sky Three has changed its brand name to PickTV, and Youth culture show What’s Up joined the new look channel on Monday, 7 March to offer a unique take on urban culture in the UK.   Prepare for a whistle stop tour of the What’s Up world, as Fusion & Michelle Watson lead a team of fresh presenters on a journey through underground music, street level politics, high art and everything in between.   In the opening episode, Giggs talks about fatherhood in the […]