UK News

UK NEWS: BLACK MEN IN RAISED PROSTATE CANCER RISK

September 30, 2008

Black men living in England have a three times higher risk of prostate cancer than white men, figures show. They also tend to be diagnosed five years younger, a study of all cases in London and Bristol found. The results cannot be explained by access to diagnostic tests, awareness of the condition or screening, the British Journal of Cancer reported. Cancer charities said the finding may lead to better care for men at higher risk of the disease. Researchers at the University […]

UK NEWS: BUSTA RHYMES RELEASED!

September 25, 2008

After being detained by UK Immigration officials today for NO GOOD REASON, rapper Busta Rhymes has been released. Via The London Paper Busta Rhymes has been released after being barred from entering the UK today. His detention throwing plans for an anti-violence gig into chaos. Organisers of the gig were said to be considering Ludacris as his replacement. But Busta’s lawyer intervened and a High Court Judge agreed that the decision to detain was unlawful. The 36 year old MC was released immediately. The […]

UK NEWS: LONDON RAPPER COMMISSIONED TO WRITE HIP HOP TRACK ABOUT ASTROBIOLOGY

September 24, 2008

Photograph: The London Paper A student from Wembley who uses his love of hip hop to make cosmology easier to understand, is to showcase his NASA-commissioned rap at the Science Museum tonight. Bigwigs at the US Space Agency asked Jonathan Chase, 28, to write the “Astrobiology Rap” for the latest European edition of NASA’s Astrobiology Magazine. The song and accompanying video is fast becoming a YouTube hit and has been viewed more than 10,000 times. The 28-year-old rapper is a Science Communication student […]

UK NEWS: URBAN MUSIC AWARDS 2008 NEWS

September 17, 2008

Not only do we have the MOBO Awards, we also have the UMA’s (Urban Music Awards) which will take place  in November. Yey!!!! Estelle is again leading the way in award nominations, this time picking up nods in five categories for the UK Urban Music Awards (UMAs). Last week, it was revealed that the singer, 28, had five nods for this year’s MOBO (Music of Black Origin Awards). Dance act Booty Luv are up for three UMAs – best crossover act, best dance act and […]

UK NEWS: REALITY TV STAR JADE GOODY’S CANCER HAS SPREAD….

September 14, 2008

Jade Goody’s cancer has spread further than expected, doctors have discovered during an eight-hour operation to remove her womb. Medics who carried  out the hysterectomy found that the cancer had reached “Stage Three” – a term used to describe when it has moved beyond the womb. The cancer was discovered in a ligament muscle behind her uterus. Before the operation, when they thought it was contained in her womb, the reality TV star was given 95 per cent odds of making a […]

UK NEWS: SURGERY ON REALITY SHOW STAR JADE GOODY ‘GOES WELL’

September 13, 2008

An eight-hour operation in which reality TV star Jade Goody had a hysterectomy “went well”, her publicist Max Clifford has said. “She’s got the best people looking after her,” he added, as the 27-year-old remained in intensive care at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London. The mother-of-two is expected to begin a course of chemotherapy and radiotherapy lasting nine weeks. She was diagnosed with cervical cancer last month.  Continue Reading…. I appreciate the fact that top publicist Max Clifford keeps us all up […]

UK NEWS: ESTELLE LEADS MOBO NOMINATIONS

September 10, 2008

R&B star Estelle leads the way at this year’s Music of Black Origin (Mobo) Awards with five nominations. The 28-year-old, who went to number one with American Boy in March, is up for best song, best UK female, best R&B/soul, best video and best album. Leona Lewis has been nominated for three awards – best UK female, best video and best album for Spirit. The 13th annual Mobo Awards, co-hosted by Spice Girl Mel B, will be held at Wembley Arena on […]

UK NEWS: MOBO (MUSIC OF BLACK ORIGIN) AWARDS 2008

September 10, 2008

Well folks here we are again! It’s MOBO awards time! Yey!!!!!!!! For those who don’t know about the MOBO Awards, it’s the UK’s answer to the BET Awards…..well… sort of…. As always I look forward to seeing which acts have been included in the now controversial Reggae category. Will the organisers go for the “safe” options and nominate Shaggy and Sean Paul this year, like they do EVERY YEAR!!! Peter Tatchell still got you shook Kanya??? (lol) And don’t even get me started on the foolishness that took last year when they nominated soul singer ANTHONY HAMILTON for a reggae award! […]

UK NEWS: ‘MY CANCER WAS MISDIAGNOSED AND THEN I WAS TRICKED INTO TALKING ABOUT IT ON TV’ SAY’S REALITY SHOW STAR JADE GOODY

September 1, 2008

Jade Goody spoke live on television today for the first time since being diagnosed with cervical cancer. The reality star revealed doctors initially gave her the all clear, and sent her away with just pain killers for period pain. Jade was told of her cancer diagnosis while in the Indian Big Brother house last month, but now claims she wasn’t aware the conversation was being filmed. She told GMTV that her symptoms were initially dismissed: ‘I was in hospital for a week, […]

UK NEWS: MAN JAILED FOR KILLING BNP ACTIVIST

August 29, 2008

An Asian man who killed his BNP activist neighbour in a dispute has been jailed for eight years. Habib Khan, 50, of Stoke-on-Trent, was convicted in May of the manslaughter of 52-year-old Keith Brown whom he stabbed with a kitchen knife last year. Mr Khan’s son, Kazir Saddique, was sentenced to a year in prison and a year on licence after admitting the unlawful wounding of Mr Brown’s son. Khan said that living next door to Mr Brown for five years had […]