Day: October 14, 2013

UK MUSIC NEWS: WESTFIELD (SHEPHERDS BUSH) CANCELS GIGGS HMV ALBUM SIGNING

October 14, 2013

Amazing turn out for our @officialgiggs album signing tonight! Thanks everyone! #WhenWillItStop pic.twitter.com/6iJhe5k5la — hmv Southampton (@hmvSouthampton) October 14, 2013 I'm pissed — GIGGS (@officialgiggs) October 14, 2013 So Westfield don't want me in there building 2mrw,so they've cancelled my HMV signing tomorrow. I'm sorry everyone,I dunno what to say — GIGGS (@officialgiggs) October 14, 2013 The police cancelled his London show at the last minute and now his album signing, which was due to take place in London today has been cancelled. […]

UK NEWS: BBC EXPOSES ESTATE AGENTS WHO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE

October 14, 2013

Via The Guardian Estate agents in London are routinely discriminating against black people looking for a home in the private rental market, an undercover investigation has found. The BBC‘s Inside Out programme uncovered 10 estate agents in north-west London who were willing to meets landlords’ specification that properties should not be let to African-Caribbean people. Posing as a landlord who did not want to let out his flat to black people, an undercover reporter asked agents if they would be willing to discriminate against potential […]