UK News

UK NEWS: MAN AND 14 YEAR OLD BOY FOUND GUILTY OF SHOUTING HOMOPHOBIC CHANTS AT FOOTBALLER SOL CAMPBELL

May 19, 2009

The rumours surrounding Sol Campbell’s sexuality have been following him for YEARS!!!!  But regardless the behaviour displayed during the match was disgusting and he didn’t deserve to be subjected to that level of abuse.  Who Campbell chooses to get naked with behind closed doors has nothing to do with what he does on the football pitch. Via Overground Online   A man and a 14-year-old boy have been banned from attending football matches for three years after they were found guilty of shouting, ‘come on gay boy, that’s my gay boy’ at Portsmouth defender Sol […]

UK NEWS: POLICE DEFEND BLACK MUSIC CONCERT CRACKDOWN

May 18, 2009

Via BBC News Police have defended their use of a controversial form that requires live music venues to hand over details of performers, promoters and fans. Form 696 has helped cut shootings and stabbings in and around London gig venues, the Metropolitan Police said. The Met introduced the risk assessment form to identify gigs where trouble might flare up, partly in response to black-on-black shootings. But it has been criticised for being heavy-handed and racially motivated. The Met said the form had […]

UK NEWS: FAMILIES OF CRASH VICTIMS ANGRY AS DRIVER WALKS FREE

May 14, 2009

Model/presenter Kaya Bousquet Patience Jackson Singer Danielle Campbell This is just tragic. The driver walking away with just a slap on the wrists comes as no surprise. Via The London Paper The families of three young London women killed when a lorry smashed into their car spoke of their outrage today after the driver walked free from court. The ex-girlfriend of rap star Dizzee Rascal, Kaya Bousquet, 22, and friends Patience Jackson, 22, and Danielle Campbell, 23, died in the collision on […]

UK NEWS: 16 YEAR OLD BOY GUNNED DOWN

May 13, 2009

Another complete waste of a young life. Via The Sunday Mirror A 16-year-old boy who was shot in the head outside a pub may have been the victim of gang violence, police sources said. The teenager was fatally shot outside The Robin Hood Pub in Barton Road, Stretford, Manchester, shortly before midnight. The victim was named locally as Guiseppe Gregory from Ardwick, in inner city Manchester. Police who were called to the scene were alerted to the fact that a boy with […]

UK NEWS: JADE GOODY MUSICAL PLANNED

April 23, 2009

Via Digital Spy A friend and former business partner of Jade Goody has announced plans to create a musical based around the life of the late reality TV star. Danny Hayward told the BBC that auditions for the lead part of Goody would be announced in three weeks’ time. Publicist Max Clifford said: “It’s an idea that’s got legs, but it’s nothing definite. It’s not all signed and sealed, but it’s something that’s likely to happen.” Clifford added that he would help […]

UK MUSIC NEWS: MEET NEW BOY BAND – 3MIX

April 14, 2009

Meet 3Mix, the new ‘boy band’ set to take Britain by storm… Via BBC News Boy band 3Mix are sitting in EMI’s London offices looking every inch the perfect teen idols, from their baby-faced good looks and meticulously back-combed hair to their carefully co-ordinated clothes. “We’re proud to be a boy band,” says singer Myan Mirza. “We grew up listening to the likes of Boyz II Men, ‘N Sync and the Backstreet Boys, so there’s no shame there.” Like their idols, Mirza and […]

UK NEWS: VETERAN TV HOST MICHAEL PARKINSON SAYS ‘JADE GOODY WAS A WRETCHED ROLE MODEL’

April 7, 2009

Parkinson shows no mercy! Via The Telegraph Jade Goody, the reality TV star who died last month of cervical cancer aged 27, represented “all that is paltry and wretched about Britain”, Sir Michael Parkinson has said. He told Radio Times: “Jade Goody has her own place in the history of television and, while it’s significant, it’s nothing to be proud of. Her death is as sad as the death of any young person, but it’s not the passing of a martyr or a […]

UK NEWS: STATUE OF JADE GOODY TO BE ERECTED IN HER HOME TOWN OF BERMONDSEY?

March 30, 2009

Via Digital Spy Jade Goody could be immortalised by a statue in Bermondsey, it has emerged. A number of fans have written to council heads and urged them to commemorate the reality TV star, who  last week, The Mirror reports. Community council chair Bob Skelly said: “The council has plans for the Dickens Estate area where Jade grew up, and I’m sure we could do something.” Publicist Max Clifford said: “It’s wonderful news.” It is thought that a statue or blue plaque […]

BBC DEFENDS ‘EXCESSIVE’ JADE GOODY COVERAGE

March 25, 2009

Via Digital Spy The BBC has defended its coverage of Jade Goody’s death, after dozens of viewers complained that the story had been given too much prominence. The broadcaster received 69 official complaints, with many more being posted online, after reportage of Goody’s death led the news bulletins across the corporation’s TV, radio and world service outlets. However, BBC News executive producer Peter Horrocks has defended the coverage, saying that the prominence was justified because of the public interest in her and […]

UK NEWS: FORMER EASTENDERS ACTOR TAKES THE SUN NEWSPAPER TO COURT

March 24, 2009

I thought old Mohammed here beat his then girlfriend/the mother of his daughter with a belt in the street! That was what online reports suggested at the time. Anyway…. Via Digital Spy Former EastEnders actor Mohammed George has started libel action against The Sun after the tabloid reportedly called him a “woman beater”. The BBC reports that George, who played Gus Smith in the soap, alleges that his acting prospects were “damaged” by the paper’s report, which came in the wake of his 2006 arrest […]