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UK NEWS: JOHN TERRY STRIPPED OF ENGLAND CAPTAINCY

The Telegraph reports that footballer John Terry has been stripped of the England captaincy. John Terry, as predicted, has been stripped of the England captaincy for the second   time this morning after losing the support of the FA board amid concerns   over his ongoing racism court case. The news comes two days after the criminal trial into Terry’s alleged racist  abuse of Queens Park Rangers’s Anton Ferdinand was postponed until after the  European Championships in July. It has been reported that David Bernstein, the FA chairman, []

ENGLAND LOSES BID TO HOST WORLD CUP 2018

Via BBC News England missed out on the right to host the 2018 World Cup after football’s governing body Fifa picked Russia to stage the event for the first time. Russia saw off rival bids from England, Spain-Portugal and Netherlands-Belgium to win a secret ballot of Fifa’s 22 executive members in Zurich. England hoped Prince William, David Cameron and David Beckham would give them an advantage but the bid failed. Continue Reading… Well I can’t say I’m surprised by this outcome. I am []

GERMANY KNOCK ENGLAND OUT OF THE WORLD CUP

Weeks before the World Cup kicked off in South Africa, a visitor to the site accused me of being negative when I said that the England team didn’t stand a chance of winning the tournament. Well guess what folks –  IT’S A WRAP! Germany destroyed England’s “chances” of going home with the World Cup today in a highly controversial match. Germany went on to easily win 4-1 after an encounter in which a wrongly disallowed goal had prevented England completing a comeback []

UK NEWS: DENTIST CHARGED WITH STEALING £1M IN ‘BIGGEST EVER’ NHS FAKE INVOICE FRAUD

Via The Mail A woman dentist has been charged with stealing £1million from the NHS in one of the biggest ever alleged frauds in the history of the health service. Dr Joyce Trail, 48, has been suspended from her West Midlands practice after being accused of submitting up to 5,000 bogus patient invoices.   The dentist, who also runs a medical spa offering Botox and ‘smile makeovers’, was arrested after the NHS Counter Fraud Team and police launched an investigation into payment invoices []

UK TV: CARLSBERG ENGLAND WORLD CUP COMMERCIAL

Well the 2010 World Cup is fast approaching, and next week promotion/marketing of the event which will take place in South Africa will go in to full effect. Check out the brand new England 2010 World Cup commercial from Carlsberg, featuring various sporting greats from the past. I would love for England to bring home the World Cup but when I look at the England squad, I just don’t see it happening.

BNP LEADER NICK GRIFFIN SAYS ‘EAST LONDON IS LIKE NAIROBI’

Far-right leader /BNP Nick Griffin has been secretly filmed while out campaigning, and likened East London to Nairobi. Does anyone know if Nick has been to Nairobi? Is he even capable of finding the country on a map? Last week Nick pounded the streets of Barking campaigning, with what can only be described as a mad black pastor by his side, who he claims has joined the BNP. Nothing this FOOL says or does fazes me.   Bring it on Nick! I’m a big girl I can take it. Tell us how you []

UK NEWS: SOULJA BOY FANS BOMBARD FAMILY’S PHONE

HILARIOUS!!!!! Thousands of music fans have been bombarding a family from Oldham, (Manchester, England) with calls – ever since their telephone number featured on a rap track. US rap artist Soulja Boy included the ex-directory number in his latest hit, Kiss Me Thru The Phone. Since its release, Gerry Matley and his wife Catriona Howard Smith have been getting about 60 calls a day from fans hoping to talk to the 18-year-old star. They said some of them even sing the song down the phone. []