UK News

UK NEWS: DEPUTY MAYOR RESIGNS

July 4, 2008

Former Deputy Mayor Ray Lewis London’s deputy mayor has resigned two months into his post amid claims of financial irregularities. Ray Lewis faced allegations relating to his time as a vicar in east London in the late 1990s and head of a youth academy scheme in 2003. He was placed under Church of England disciplinary measures in 1999. London Mayor Boris Johnson said he was sad at the resignation – but insisted he would re-appoint Mr Lewis if he cleared his name. […]

UK NEWS: WOMAN STABBED TO DEATH

July 2, 2008

A woman has died after being stabbed in a late night incident. Dee Willis, 28, received a wound to her upper body during the attack at around 11pm on Tuesday in Bellenden Road, close to Peckham High Street in south east London. Ms Willis was taken to Kings College Hospital but was pronounced dead shortly after midnight. Neighbours said that Ms Willis recently miscarried twins. Detectives said they were looking for a female suspect, believed to have acted alone. The incident comes […]

UK NEWS: PAIR BAILED AFTER STREET STABBING

June 30, 2008

Murdered: 16 year old Ben Kinsella  Two youths arrested over the murder of Ben Kinsella, who was stabbed to death in a London street, have been released on police bail. Ben, 16, was attacked during a row with youths in York Way, Holloway, north London, at about 0200 BST on Sunday. The youngster, the 17th teenager killed in London this year, died in hospital a few hours later. His sister, Brooke Kinsella, who played Kelly Taylor in the BBC One soap EastEnders, said […]

UK NEWS: MAN JAILED OVER CROSS FIRE DEATH

June 23, 2008

Armel Gnango sentenced today Victim: Magda Pniewska A man has been jailed for at least 20 years for the murder of a woman caught in a “Wild West” style shoot-out. Magda Pniewska, 26, was shot in the head in New Cross, south London, in October last year. The care assistant was talking on her mobile when she was shot. Her sister in Poland told the Old Bailey she heard Ms Pniewska’s last breath down the phone. Armel Gnango, 18, was jailed for […]

AMY WINEHOUSE HAS LUNG DISEASE

June 23, 2008

Singer Amy Winehouse has “traces” of the lung disease emphysema but is “responding brilliantly to treatment”, her father has said. Mitch Winehouse told BBC Radio 1 his daughter would recover “completely” as long as she stopped smoking. The star has now been in hospital for a week, but her father said she would perform at the Glastonbury Festival and Nelson Mandela concert this weekend. “With patience, her lungs will recover completely and she’s responding brilliantly to treatment – she’s actually flourishing,” Mr […]

AMY WINEHOUSE STILL ‘HOPES TO SING’ AT NELSON MANDELA CONCERT….

June 20, 2008

Amy Winehouse still hopes to perform at the forthcoming Glastonbury Festival and Nelson Mandela concert, despite her ongoing treatment in hospital. The 24-year-old Rehab singer is undergoing tests after fainting at home on Monday afternoon. Winehouse is on the bill at the Nelson Mandela gig in London’s Hyde Park on 27 June, and at Glastonbury the next day.  Continue Reading…. Does Amy plan on singing this little ditti at the Mandela birthday concert? Like Nelson hasn’t suffered enough! Now he might have to endure watching this drug […]

PICS OF THE DAY: UK FILM PREMIERE ‘ADULTHOOD’ (LONDON)

June 18, 2008

The UK premiere of the highly anticipated film ‘Adulthood’ (sequel to ‘Kidulthood’) took place last night (June 17th) at the Empire Leicester Square, London. They laid on the red carpet treatment this time around… nice…… Actor Aml Ameen Actor Cornell S. John Former Mis-teeq group member Su-Elise Nash Rapper/Actor Ashley Walters Singer Lisa Maffia Actor/Writer Noel Clarke Singer Nate James   Noel Clarke poses with racist/bully/footballer’s play thing, Danielle Lloyd….(so she received an invite..hmmmm) Actress Red Madrell Actors Adam Deacon and Femi Oyeniran ‘Adulthood’ – […]

UK NEWS: TEENAGER’S KILLERS SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT

June 18, 2008

Murderers/pair of low life losers: Mohammed Noor and Abdi Sannoh Two men have been sentenced to life imprisonment at the Old Bailey for murdering a 15-year-old boy as he slept at his south-east London home. Mohammed Sannoh, 19, from Peckham, and Abdi Omar Noor, 22, from Camberwell, burst into Michael Dosunmu’s room in Peckham and shot him in February 2007. Michael, who was mistaken for his older brother Hakeem, was shot four times with a MAC-10 machine pistol. Sannoh and Noor were each […]

UK NEWS: SAINSBURY’S MURDER: WOMAN IN COURT

June 13, 2008

Killed at supermarket check out: Kevin Tripp Kevin Tripp’s grieving partner Josephine (centre) A woman is appearing in court charged with the murder of Kevin Tripp, the engineer who was attacked in a Sainsbury’s supermarket queue. Antoinette Richardson’s, whose boyfriend Tony Virasami has already been remanded in custody over the killing, is appearing before magistrates in Sutton, south London. Police believe 57-year-old Mr Tripp, who was attacked in front of horrified customers at the store in Merton, south west London, on Tuesday evening, […]