UK News

MICHAEL JACKSON TO ANNOUNCE LONDON DATES

March 3, 2009

Via BBC News Michael Jackson is expected to announce a series of comeback concerts at the O2 arena in London. The pop legend is due to appear at the venue on Thursday make to a “special announcement”, a statement said. It follows months of speculation about a string of money-spinning shows. Jackson last performed in 2006, at the World Music Awards in London.  Continue Reading If he does announce tour dates then I guarantee that when those tickets go on sale it will be a wrap! […]

UK NEWS: RAPPER COOLIO ATTEMPTS STAGE DIVE AND CRASHES TO THE FLOOR

March 3, 2009

Rapper Coolio was injured during a concert in Stoke-on-Trent last Wednesday, after attempting to do a stage dive into the audience. The 90s rap superstar was performing at Staffordshire University’s Students’ Union last Wednesday night, when he decided to jumped into the crowd. The bad mind (lol) audience parted, sending Coolio crashing to the floor. The students them reportedly mobbed the rapper, stealing his bandana, jewellery and shoes before the star was rescued by the venue’s security team. ………………………………………………………….. Didn’t stage diving die out in the mid 90s? […]

UK NEWS: TERMINALLY ILL REALITY TV STAR JADE GOODY FACES FURTHER SURGERY

March 1, 2009

Via BBC News Terminally-ill reality TV star Jade Goody is facing the prospect of more surgery to relieve her “awful pain”, her publicist Max Clifford has said. The 27-year-old Big Brother star is set to be admitted to the Royal Marsden Hospital, in London. Goody spent the weekend in a hospice following problems with her medication. The mother-of two has weeks to live after her cervical cancer, which was diagnosed last year, spread to her liver, groin and bowel. Mr Clifford said […]

UK NEWS: GRANDMOTHER CONVICTED OF CAUSING THE DEATH OF INNOCENT SHOPPER /CCTV IMAGES

February 27, 2009

Victim Kevin Tripp was killed by a single punch to the head. Via The Daily Mail His face contorted with rage, a thug kills an innocent shopper with a single blow after a trivial argument over queue jumping in Sainsbury’s. A chilling sequence of startlingly clear CCTV images shows Tony Virasami – who was wearing an electronic tag at the time of the offence – mistakenly identifying Kevin Tripp and then striking him. Mr Tripp, 57, a father of one who was in […]

UK NEWS: MET POLICE HIT BY CLAIM IT OPERATED SEGREGATED VANS FOR BLACK AND WHITE OFFICERS

February 25, 2009

Via The Guardian An “apartheid” system of discrimination and racist bullying operated at a London police station, according to claims made yesterday on the tenth anniversary of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry report. An Asian police community support officer alleged that he and other ethnic minority officers were made to travel separately from white officers. Asad Saeed, who will make his claims at an employment tribunal tomorrow, told in legal documents how one officer ordered a black woman colleague to get out of […]

UK NEWS: JADE GOODY’S FIANCE’S BAIL TO BE EXAMINED FOR WEDDING….

February 20, 2009

Jade Goody Jack Tweed Via BBC News The Ministry of Justice is considering relaxing the bail conditions for Jade Goody’s fiance Jack Tweed, ahead of their wedding this weekend. It has emerged that reality TV star Goody, who has terminal cancer, may have to spend her wedding night alone because of his bail conditions. Tweed is on curfew after being convicted of assault last year. Justice Secretary Jack Straw said he had great sympathy for Goody who was facing her illness with […]

UK NEWS: REALITY TV STAR JADE GOODY SECURES WEDDING DEAL

February 18, 2009

Jade Goody has secured deals with a magazine and TV station ahead of her wedding to Jack Tweed this weekend, her publicist Max Clifford has confirmed. OK! magazine has bought exclusive rights to Sunday’s ceremony for £700,000 and Living TV have paid £100,000 to broadcast it. Clifford said that after the wedding there “won’t be more episodes of the series they have been filming”. Terminally ill Goody has decided to use the media to raise funds for her sons. Continue Reading…. And […]

UK NEWS: DAD AT 13 WILL GET DNA TEST ON BABY

February 16, 2009

Pure slackness! The teenage boy who became a father at 13 will get the DNA test he has demanded, it has been confirmed. Publicist Max Clifford has taken over dealing with Alfie Patten’s media relations since baby Maisie was born to girlfriend Chantelle Steadman, 15. Clifford told Sky News Online: “There will be a DNA test, I think so.” The family has dominated headlines since the news first emerged at the end of last week. But over the weekend, more young teenage […]

UK NEWS: HARRODS OWNER MOHAMED AL FAYED GIVES TERMINALLY ILL JADE GOODY A WEDDING DRESS / ELTON JOHN OFFERS THE USE OF HIS HOME AS A WEDDING VENUE

February 16, 2009

Terminally ill reality TV star Jade Goody is planning to marry her current boyfriend Jack Tweed, who proposed to her in hospital on Friday. Goody’s publicist Max Clifford has also revealed that Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed had given Goody a dress as “a wedding present” and that singer Elton John had offered the use of one of his homes as a venue. Goody was diagnosed with having cervical cancer in October 2008. …………………………………………………………………………….. Presumably Mohamed and Elton will both continue to show this […]

UK NEWS: REALITY TV STAR JADE GOODY ‘HAS MONTHS TO LIVE’

February 14, 2009

Via BBC News Jade Goody has been told she has only months to live, her publicist Max Clifford has said. Mr Clifford said doctors at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London broke the news to the former reality television star on Friday. The mother-of-two is now getting her affairs in order and making plans for her sons’ future, he added. Last week Goody underwent a successful operation to remove a cancerous tumour from her bowel. Mr Clifford said: “She was aware that […]