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UK NEWS: DWARF DEMANDS APOLOGY FROM ENGLAND RUGBY TEAM AFTER DRUNK THROWS HIM IN THE AIR

Dwarf Martin Henderson has demanded an apology from Mike Tindall and the rest of the England Rugby team after he was thrown in the air by a drunken reveller and left partially paralysed. Via The Metro Martin Henderson, 37, was celebrating his birthday with friends when a hooded yob picked him up and tossed him straight up into the air.  The 4ft 6in (1.37m) actor, who played a goblin in the Harry Potter films, suffered damage to nerve tissue in his spine, []

UK NEWS: BRIT AWARDS 2012 NOMINEES REVEALED

The Brit Awards 2012 nominations list has been revealed. HURRAH!!! This year’s lucky nominees are…. BRITISH MALE SOLO ARTIST Ed Sheeran James Blake James Morrison Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Professor Green BRITISH FEMALE SOLO ARTIST Adele Florence & The Machine Island Jessie J Kate Bush Laura Marling BRITISH BREAKTHROUGH ACT Anna Calvi Ed Sheeran Emeli Sandé Jessie J The Vaccines BRITISH GROUP Arctic Monkeys Chase & Status Coldplay Elbow Kasabian BRITISH SINGLE Adele: Someone Like You Ed Sheeran: The A Team Example: Changed The []

UK NEWS: FOOTBALLER FIRED OVER HOMOPHOBIC TWEET

The world of football is really trying to clean up it’s act. First there is the attempt to tackle the on-going racism and now this. Via The Guardian Oxford City have sacked their striker Lee Steele for posting a homophobic remark on Twitter about the former Wales rugby player Gareth Thomas. Mike Ford, manager of the Southern Football League Premier Division club, said the decision was taken in response to Steele tweeting about Thomas’s appearance in Celebrity Big Brother. Steele wrote: “I wouldn’t []

UK NEWS: POLICE SAY “SORRY” TO MOTHER WHO THEY WRONGLY ARRESTED AND ACCUSED OF ASSAULTING AN OFFICER

This is just sickening. Via The Evening Standard The Met has been forced to make an extraordinary public apology to a mother wrongly arrested and accused of assaulting an officer as bailiffs attempted to clamp her husband’s car. Detective sergeant Nick Westwood made the “humbling” apology to Alison Richardson in front of scores of her fellow churchgoers over the “upset and distress” caused when she was arrested in 2008. Mrs Richardson was taken into custody by as many as eight officers after []

UK NEWS: CELEBRITY CHEF APOLOGISES FOR STEALING WINE AND CHEESE FROM TESCO

Celebrity Chef Antony Worrall Thompson has issued a statement via his website apologising for shoplifting cheese and wine from Tesco. The chef/TV star said, I am so sorry for all my recent stupid and irresponsible actions; I am of course devastated for my family and friends, whom I’ve let down and will seek the treatment that is clearly needed. I am not the first, and I certainly won’t be the last person to do something without rhyme or reason – what went []

UK NEWS: POPULAR TV CHEF CAUGHT STEALING CHEESE AND WINE FROM TESCO

It has been reported that celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson has been arrested on suspicion of stealing cheese and wine from the Henley-on-Thames branch of Tesco. A source disclosed, ‘He was ordering blocks of cheese at the deli counter, taking bottles of wine, then putting some things through the scanner but walking out with the rest.’ According to The Mail Worrall was caught shoplifting five times and has just been cautioned for all five offences. The star’s business is said to be suffering because of the recession. Click HERE to []

UK NEWS: LIVERPOOL INVOLVED IN NEW “RACE ROW” AFTER PLAYER TOM ADEYEMI IS ALLEGEDLY RACIALLY ABUSED DURING MATCH BY FAN

Oh dear! Another year,  another football race row and another WAKE UP CALL. Liverpool football club has issued a statement in response to last night’s Liverpool verses Oldham game where it is claimed that Oldham defender Tom Adeyemi was racially abused by a Liverpool fan. In the statement they said, “Liverpool Football Club continue to work closely with Merseyside Police to establish all the facts surrounding the incident that occurred during last night’s game. “We take this matter extremely seriously and have today []

UK NEWS: MP DIANE ABBOTT CAUGHT UP IN NEW “RACE ROW” FOR ‘IMPLYING’ THAT TAXI DRIVERS DRIVE PAST BLACK CUSTOMERS

There is no stopping Diane Abbott this week! The woman is on a roll. (LOL). The Labour MP is is in trouble again after accusing taxi drivers of drving past black customers. Abbott tweeted, “Dubious of black people claiming they’ve never experienced racism,” . “Ever tried hailing a taxi I always wonder?” In response to her tweet the OUTRAGED spokesman for the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association Steve McNamara said: “This is a typically silly comment by Diane Abbott and deeply unfair.  The modern generation of taxi []