UK News

UK NEWS: SINGER/DJ SONIQUE’S BREAST CANCER HAS SPREAD

June 19, 2009

Via Digital Spy Brit Award winner Sonique has been told by doctors that she will require further surgery because her breast cancer has spread. The DJ, 40, was admitted to Harley Street clinic earlier this week as a matter of urgency. She was originally only expected to remain in hospital until the weekend. However, test results received yesterday show that the musician’s body has not been cleared of cancer. The disease has moved to lymph nodes under her arms and possibly her […]

UK NEWS: SINGER/DJ SONIQUE DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER / STABLE AFTER OPERATION

June 16, 2009

Via The London Paper Singer/DJ Sonique has undergone emergency breast cancer surgery at a Harley Street clinic in central London. The 40-year-old singer who grew up in Crouch End was in a “stable condition” less than a week after discovering she had the disease. Spokesman Stuart Watts said: “Sonique has had her operation and is in a stable condition.”  Continue Reading…. Get well soon Sonique.

UK NEWS: IDRIS ELBA UPSETS RAP DUO SAS EUROGANG

June 11, 2009

Idris Elba   SAS Eurogang Actor Idris Elba had less than complimentary things to say about UK rap duo SAS Eurogang aka Mega and Mayhem, when asked about his thoughts on the UK music scene. Check out Idris’ remark and Mega/Mayhem’s response…. Via Twitter I SWEAR, NEXT GUY TO JUMP OUT AT US THAT AINT COMPLIMENTARY WE SPASSING THE F**K OUT, I’M F**KING PISSED OFF!!!20 minutes ago from TweetDeck IDRIS ELBA NEEDS TO HOLLA AT US TO GHOSTWRITE THAT AUTO TUNE PIECE OF SHIT ALBUM […]

UK NEWS: POLICE HUNT NIGHTCLUB TOILET ATTENDANT

June 10, 2009

Via The London Paper Police wodeere today hunting a rapist who attacked a teenager after dropping down from the ceiling of a nightclub toilet. The suspect, named by police as Adebayo Omokayode Awosabya, 41, had been lurking in roof space at the Amika nightclub in Kensington. He watched through a grille until the 19-year-old victim entered the toilet cubicle, before leaping down on top of her and tearing off her clothes. He told the girl: “It’s OK,” before sexually assaulting her. A […]

UK NEWS: NELSON MANDELA STATUE GETS A ‘MAKE OVER’

June 10, 2009

Via The London Paper Police had to spare Nelson Mandela’s blushes after pranksters transformed his statue in London’s Parliament Square into a lager-swilling chav. The ‘make over’ by the self-styled ‘Chav-meister’ and an accomplice saw the former South African president sporting a Burberry cap and gold chain. Continue Reading…. They just HAD to practice their Kok Wong  make over skills on Nelson’s statue. Forget the other statues. No it HAD to be Nelson’s! Idiots! lol

UK NEWS: TIM WESTWOOD TAKES SINGER CIARA OUT ON A SHOPPING SPREE TO PRIMARK

June 9, 2009

Today while on Twitter I came across some hilarious twits from Radio 1 Hip Hop personality, Tim ‘Big Dawg’ Westwood. Singer Ciara is currently in the country touring with Britney Spears and for some unknown reason asked Tim to take her to her favourite store, Top Shop. But Tim, who I’m guessing suffers sleepless nights worrying about his own financial security, the state of our economy and the recession had other ideas…. Via Twitter  Ciara asked me to take her shoppin today her favourite shop is Top Shop but I suggested Primark. She hadn’t heard of […]

UK NEWS: BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY WINS FIRST COUNTRY COUNCIL SEATS

June 5, 2009

BNP Party leader Nick Griffin Via Yahoo News The BNP (British National Party) has won its first county council seats in Lancashire and Leicestershire as Labour was humiliated in local elections across England. Continue Reading….. For those who have never heard of the British National Party, they are Britain’s political answer to the Klu Klux Klan. I expected the BNP to win seats because the reality is, there are thousands upon thousands of people in this country who believe in their policies and believe in what they stand […]

UK NEWS: THE METRO FEATURES EDITOR RESPONDS TO BASHY CRITICISM / THREATENS TO BAN INTERVIEWS WITH ‘MINORITY SUBJECTS’

June 4, 2009

I reported earlier on that a journalist working for The Metro newspaper faced a wave of criticism today, after he asked UK rapper Bashy if he thought “music was a way out for young black people now, like boxing used to be”, during an interview. Since then the newspaper has received a wave of complaint emails and reader Susan Younis has kindly forwarded me the response email she received from The Metro’s Feature Editor Kieran Meeke. Hi Susan Thank you for your letter and my apologies that you found the question […]

UK NEWS: METRO NEWSPAPER JOURNALIST CAUSES ANGER AND OUTRAGE AFTER INTERVIEWING UK RAPPER BASHY

June 4, 2009

Rapper Bashy In a new interview with The Metro Newspaper, UK rapper Bashy was asked the following question by journalist James Day…. Is music a way out for young black people now, like boxing used to be? The question stopped me dead in my tracks this morning, and then I laughed out loud.   Could James really be this dumb, ignorant and perhaps racist? Does he actually believe that back in the day a young black man’s (that’s who I assume he is referring too) only goal in life […]

PREGNANT BRITAIN SENTENCED TO LIFE IN JAIL FOR DRUG SMUGGLING

June 3, 2009

Is her age accurate? This woman looks older than twenty. Via BBC News A pregnant British woman accused of smuggling heroin has been found guilty in Laos and sentenced to life in jail. Samantha Orobator, 20, from south London, was caught with 1.5lb (680g) of the drug at Wattay airport in the capital, Vientiane, last August. Her trial had been delayed while Laotian officials tried to find out how she became pregnant in prison. She would have faced a mandatory death sentence, […]