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UK NEWS: SCHOOL BANS SLANG TO IMPROVE STUDENTS SPEECH / DAVID LAMMY MP AGREES WITH BAN

October 16, 2013

Via BBC News Slang such as “ain’t”, “innit” and “coz” has been banned from a school in south London to try to help students find future employment. Harris Academy Upper Norwood said it implemented the initiative to allow its students to “express themselves confidently and appropriately”. Pupils heard using “informal language” will be asked to “reflect” on it. Other banned words include “like”, “bare” and “extra” and the phrases “you woz” and “we woz”. Starting sentences with “basically” and ending them with […]

UK MUSIC NEWS: MORE HMV STORES CANCEL GIGGS INSTORE ALBUM SIGNING / VIDEO RESPONSE TO CANCELLATIONS

October 15, 2013

Yesterday rapper Giggs announced that Westfield (Shepherds Bush) cancelled his album signing at their HMV store and today the rapper has announced more last minute cancellations around the country. Just heard that Kingston HMV has been cancelled 2mrw too,but don't worry coz I WILL be standing right outside 5:30 signin albums.I PROMISE U — GIGGS (@officialgiggs) October 15, 2013 I would like to know if these last minute cancellations also come with an explanation. Giggs really needs to sit down with a […]

POLICE CLAIM ‘AN OVERWHELMING RESPONSE’ AFTER MADELEINE McCANN CRIMEWATCH APPEAL

October 15, 2013

BBC News reports that police probing the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal are today claiming that there was an “overwhelming response” to an appeal on the BBC’s Crimewatch programme with more than 300 calls. Crimewatch editor Joe Mather told the BBC that several callers gave the same man’s name after e-fit pictures were shown. How many out of those 300 callers just called in to say that the e-fit looks like Gerry McCann? That awkward moment when the e-fit image of […]

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 […]

CO-FOUNDER OF CHOICE FM (NOW CAPITAL XTRA) REPLIES TO THOSE WHO SAY HE ‘SOLD OUT’

October 12, 2013

In an interview with The Voice co-founder of Choice FM Patrick Berry has replied to those who say Choice FM’s demise was signalled in the day he and his business partner Neil Kenlock sold the station to Capital/Global Radio almost a decade ago. Berry said, “The people that said we sold out don’t understand that you can’t keep a radio station fuelled on love alone. The local advertisers we had were not enough alone to keep it going. That’s what forced the sale.” […]