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UK NEWS: TV STAR FIRST TO FACE JAIL OVER TWEETS AFTER PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER CLAIMS THEY BREACH INJUNCTION

May 22, 2011

Via The Daily Mail A journalist on one of Britain’s most respected newspapers – who also appears on a widely-viewed BBC programme – could face a jail sentence after naming on Twitter a Premier League footballer who had taken out a privacy injunction. In the first case of its kind, lawyers for the soccer star have persuaded a High Court judge to ask Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC to consider a criminal prosecution against the writer for breaching a privacy injunction. If […]

UK NEWS: OPEN CASTING FOR ‘URBAN’ COMEDY ‘THE WEEKEND’

May 20, 2011

TRY OUT FOR COMEDIAN/CHOICE FM DJ KOJO’S URBAN COMEDY MOVIE “THE WEEKEND” ON SATURDAY 21ST & SUNDAY 22ND. CASTINGS ARE AT LOOM BAR 5 CLIPSTONE STREET, LONDON W1W 6BB. Via Official Kojo THE WEEKEND MOVIE SYNOPSIS Derrick, Tyrone & Malcolm live in East London and are college students who have spent their whole college experience being non-existent. It’s the last day of college before they finally move into the real world. They come across some money which was left in an alleyway […]

UK NEWS: STEPHEN LAWRENCE MURDER SUSPECTS TO STAND TRIAL

May 18, 2011

Via The Guardian Two men are to stand trial accused of being part of a racist white gang that “targeted and killed” the black teenager Stephen Lawrence because of the colour of his skin, the appeal court has said. The killing in 1993 in Eltham, south-east London, is one of the most high-profile unsolved murders in Britain. The men charged are David Norris, who has never before been charged over the stabbing, and Gary Dobson, who stood trial previously and was found […]

UK NEWS: WIN A CHANCE TO HAVE LUNCH AT NANDOS WITH YOUR FAVOURITE MC

May 17, 2011

Do you sit and fantasize about having lunch at Nandos with your favourite MC?  If the answer is yes then Live Magazine will make your dream come true!!!! Via SB.TV Now we all love Nando‘s, that tasty Portuguese chicken is tantalising enough to tempt all the familiar faces in the grime scene. It’s nothing new to spot an MC enjoying a meal there, but now there’s the chance to join them for lunch. Sound fun? Well get in quick, P Money and Britain’s Got Talent‘s Flawless […]

UK NEWS: FIVE TEENAGERS FACE JAIL AFTER HUNTING DOWN AND KILLING BOY 15 AT VICTORIA STATION

May 16, 2011

Via The Daily Mail Five teenagers were facing jail today for the killing of a 15-year-old boy who was ‘hunted down’ and stabbed at a London Tube station in an attack planned on Facebook. Rush-hour commuters looked on in horror as Sofyen Belamouadden was chased across a concourse at Victoria station in London by 20 youths charging at him with weapons including a samurai sword. The schoolboy tumbled down a flight of stairs into an Underground ticket hall where he was surrounded, […]

UK NEWS: BOY BAND BLUE BLAME POLITICS FOR EUROVISION FAILURE

May 16, 2011

Via TV Scoop Blue claim they were the victims of political voting during Saturday night’s Eurovision Song Contest. The band – made up of Duncan James, Lee Ryan, Antony Costa and Simon Webbe – came 11th as they represented the UK with their song ‘I Can’ at the event in Germany but believe they would have finished higher if countries had voted for the performance rather than their neighbours. Simon said: “It is often not really about the song but who your […]