UK News

UK NEWS: NIGERIAN SUICIDE CHILD RELEASED

  Via The Evening Standard A 10 year old Nigerian girl who attempted suicide after being detained in a Gatwick immigration centre for a second time has been released with her mother on the orders of Home Secretary Alan Johnson. Adeoti Ogunsola and her mother will appeal to stay in Britain.  Click here to read more about this story. This is just terrible.  Sadly though the chances of them being able to stay here on a permanent basis are still pretty slim.

UK NEWS: REGGAE SINGER MAXI PRIEST ARRESTED

British reggae artist Maxi Priest has been completely off the radar for sometime now. So let me be the first to congratulate him on his return back into the media’s spotlight. Via Entertainment Daily British reggae star MAXI PRIEST has been arrested for allegedly assaulting his ex-girlfriend. The musician, who enjoyed hits with a cover of Cat Stevens’ Wild World and a duet with Shaggy, reportedly attacked a former lover after she caught him in a car with another woman. Priest was taken into custody by cops in []

UK MUSIC NEWS: RAPPER SWAY DASAFO ‘I WANT TO RETURN TO THE OLD ME’

UK Rapper Sway Dasafo went from being a successful independent artist to moving up in the world and signing to Akon’s label Konvict Music. But since signing to Konvict, Sway’s music/image seems to have gone down a different route. Pre-Konvict Post-Konvict I guess Akon’s attempts to turn him in to the UK’s “Mr Lover Man” bothered Sway judging from this message he posted on his Twitter page today..  after careful consideration and observation of the current UK music industry, I’ve decided, to return to the old me. Watch. Hmmmmm…interesting…..  i’ll be watching Sway! Silver & Gold sounds like the type of []

UK NEWS: FORMER FOOTBALL STAR JOHN BARNES DECLARED BANKRUPT

Via The Guardian John Barnes, the former Liverpool and England winger, has been declared bankrupt by a Liverpool insolvency court only days after he was fired as manager of Tranmere Rovers. Barnes, 45, gave his occupation as a ‘provider of media services, lately a footballer’. He was declared insolvent and will be discharged on 14 October, 2010. The hearing took place five days after Barnes’ dismissal from Prenton Park, where his side lost eight of the 11 games under his control. Barnes []

UK NEWS: COMMUTERS WANT RUDE TUBE WORKED SACKED

Via The Metro A London Underground worker accused of launching a foul-mouthed tirade at an elderly passenger describes himself as an “easygoing” type. Ian Morbin, 25, was filmed at Holborn station calling the man a “jumped-up little git” after the customer complained about getting his arm stuck in a Tube door. Mr Morbin, from Romford, has been suspended on full pay after the incident, in which he was heard saying: “Sling him under a train”. The passenger is understood to have made []

UK NEWS: THE BNP WILL ALLOW BLACK MEMBERS TO JOIN ORGANISATION AND WILL END ‘WHITES ONLY MEMBERSHIP’

Oh goodie I can now join the BNP (British National Party)!  I’m about to make my way down to BNP HQ because  I want to become the first black woman to sign up as a member.  I’m about to make history folks!  Is the Klu Klux Klan now going to be forced in to allowing black members to join their cancerous organisation too? If so where do I sign up???? Via The London Evening Standard The BNP (British National Party) will be forced to admit black and Asian members after a legal []

UK NEWS: BROTHER AND SISTER STRANGLED

Via BBC News Two children who died after being found unconscious in a flat in Manchester were strangled, tests have revealed. Theo Molemohi, aged two, and his four-year-old sister Yolanda Molemohi were found by their mother at the flat in Whalley Range on Wednesday. The pair were taken to hospital where they died later. Their father was arrested, but is in hospital after collapsing in police custody. He was separated from the children’s mother. Det Supt Geoff Wessell, of Greater Manchester Police []

ROBBIE WILLIAMS BLAMES POOR X-FACTOR PERFORMANCE ON DOOR

Those of you who tuned in to the X-Factor this past weekend will have seen Robbie Williams’ perform his new single Bodies and then laughed out loud! Robbie who looked like a man possessed, has now blogged about his poor performance on the show and has the nerve to blame a door… Via Holy Moly “I wasn’t as nervous as I thought I was going to be… until the friggin sliding door wouldn’t open.I don’t know if you saw but I had to wedge it []

UK NEWS: JAVINE TALKS TO THE NEWS OF THE WORLD ‘ HARVEY HAD SEVEN LOVERS’

[Thanks Ronke] Javine must be really desperate for the attention, sympathy and dough. It was always going to end in tears dear! Move on! Focus on your daughter and the future.  Via The News Of The World STRICTLY Come Dancing star Alesha Dixon’s hip hop ex-husband MC Harvey is today branded a SERIAL love rat who cheated on her with SEVEN women during their year-long marriage. New judge Alesha will be devastated by our revelations – until now the former Mis-Teeq singer has blamed sexy Eurovision star []

UK MUSIC NEWS: THE BIZARRE PRESENTS BRRRAP PACK TOUR POSTPONED UNTIL FEBRUARY 2010

Good news folks! The highly anticipated Sun Newspaper backed Brrrap Pack Tour which was supposed to take place this month (October), will now take place in February 2010. Via Live Nation Due to circumstances beyond tour control, the Bizarre Presents tour that was scheduled to kick off it’s UK dates in Bristol on the 17th October has been postponed until February 2010. Chipmunk, currently at Number 1 with his single ‘Oopsy Daisy’ will headline the tour and be performing for the first time []