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Rikki Loney voted off X Factor
Rikki Loney has been announced as the second act voted off the live stage of The X Factor. Loney and Rachel Adedeji were in the bottom two after a public vote following Saturday night’s show. Adedeji performed an emotional rendition of U2’s With Or Without You while Scottish solo artist Loney sang Westlife’s Flying Without Wings. With judge [...]
Continue reading...Alexandra Burke races to number one
19. October 2009
Alexandra Burke’s latest single Bad Boys has gone straight to the top of the UK singles chart on its first week of release. The song, featuring US rapper Flo-Rida, has also become the fast-selling single of the year so far, according to the Official Charts Company. Bad Boys has already sold over 185,000 copies - more than [...]
Continue reading...Strictly judges knock Joe Calzaghe out
19. October 2009
Boxing champion Joe Calzaghe has become the latest celebrity to be voted off Strictly Come Dancing. The Welshman and his dance partner Kristina Rihanoff ended up in the dreaded dance-off with actress Zoe Lucker and her partner James Jordan. All four of the show’s judges then decided to save Lucker, eliminating Calzaghe from the competition. Speaking afterwards, Calzaghe [...]
Continue reading...Stars attend Stephen Gately’s funeral
19. October 2009
Emotional tributes were paid to Boyzone singer Stephen Gately at his funeral in Dublin on Saturday. His bandmates, Ronan Keating, Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham and Shane Lynch, all paid tribute to the 33-year-old. Keating also sang In This Life during the ceremony and told the congregation: "I have lost my brother. "Life will never be the same. [...]
Continue reading...Ofcom receives 3,885 Minogue complaints
16. October 2009
Dannii Minogue’s comments made to X Factor contestant Danyl Johnson on Saturday night’s show have received 3,885 complaints from viewers. A spokesperson for the media watchdog Ofcom said: "We have received 3,885 complaints. We’re not currently investigating." The controversial statement was made by Minogue on last week’s show. In the judging section of Danyl’s performance the Australian [...]
Continue reading...Outrage over Mail’s Gately article
16. October 2009
An opinion piece in the Daily Mail about the death of Stephen Gately has sparked online fury, with internet users calling for the writer in question to be dismissed. In an article entitled ‘Why there was nothing ‘natural’ about Stephen Gately’s death’, journalist Jan Moir links the former Boyzone star’s passing to his homosexuality and talks [...]
Continue reading...Amy Winehouse’s father to face MPs
16. October 2009
The father of singer Amy Winehouse is to give evidence to a government committee about the cocaine trade. Mitch Winehouse is to appear at the third evidence session in the home affairs committee’s inquiry into sales and uses of the drug. Winehouse, a former taxi driver, has spoken openly in the press about his Grammy-winning daughter’s struggles [...]
Continue reading...Winehouse father to face MPs over cocaine
16. October 2009
The father of singer Amy Winehouse is to give evidence to a government committee about the cocaine trade. Mitch Winehouse is to appear at the third evidence session in the home affairs committee’s inquiry into sales and uses of the drug. Winehouse, a former taxi driver, has spoken openly in the press about his Grammy-winning daughter’s struggles [...]
Continue reading...Sugababes’ Amelle ‘admitted to clinic’
16. October 2009
Sugababes member Amelle Berrabah has been admitted to a private health clinic after suffering "a severe bout of nervous exhaustion". The 25-year-old is to take "a short break", according to a message posted on the girlband’s official website, having received medical advice. Berrabah’s illness has been attributed to the stress surrounding the female trio’s recent lineup change, [...]
Continue reading...Man sectioned after Leona Lewis attack
16. October 2009
A man has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act after allegedly assaulting singer Leona Lewis at a London book signing, it has been confirmed. Peter Kopwalczyk, 29, has been charged with common assault after allegedly punching the X Factor winner as she signed copies of her new book at a signing in Piccadilly, Scotland Yard [...]
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FTSE down 0.4% by end of trade Thursday, as miners drag
Britain’s leading shares index the FTSE 100 was down 0.4 per cent at 23.31 points to 5,617.26 by close of trade Thursday. Miners dragged on the FTSE, as did Morrison WM Supermarkets; despite the firm announcing much better than expected results for 2009 earlier today. Among the miners Kazakhmys led the falls, down 3.17 per cent, while [...]
Continue reading...Barack Obama: The time for talk is over on health reform
US president Barack Obama has said the "time for talk is over" on his crucial plans to overhaul the country’s healthcare system. Speaking to a crowd in Missouri, Mr Obama said it was time for Congress to vote on his proposed healthcare plans, which would see a trillion-dollar national health service introduced in the world’s richest [...]
Continue reading...Beckham insists Red Knights campaign is ‘not his business’
David Beckham has denied supporting an anti-Glazer family takeover of Manchester United despite draping himself in the movement’s colours at Old Trafford last night. The former England captain returned to Old Trafford as an opposing player for the first time last night since leaving United seven years ago as his AC Milan side lost 4-0 on [...]
Continue reading...Sahil Saeed has not been freed, Foreign Office confirms
Sahil Saeed, a five-year-old British boy kidnapped in Punjab, has not been freed and is still being held by kidnappers, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has said. A Foreign Office spokesperson told inthenews.co.uk that Sahil had definitely not been released, as had been claimed by a senior Punjab minister earlier today. Sahil was taken at gunpoint by [...]
Continue reading...Morrisons sees profits for 2009 up 30% beating forecasts
UK supermarket chain Morrison has seen its profits for 2009 surge 30 per cent, beating financial forecasts. The firm said like-for-like sales, excluding fuel and VAT, were up six per cent, with profit before tax at £858 million in 2009, compared to 2008’s £655 million. Underlying profits were up 21 per cent, the firm announced, at £767 [...]
Continue reading...BP announces deal to search for oil off Brazilian coast
Oil giant BP has announced today it has secured a deal to begin deepwater offshore exploration for oil off the Brazilian coast. The firm said it would pay US firm Devon Energy £4.7 billion for its Brazilian assets, as well as those in Azerbaijan and the US deepwater Gulf of Mexico. In addition, BP will sell [...]
Continue reading...HMRC accepts Portsmouth administration
Portsmouth Football Club are expected to learn on Thursday that HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will accept the legality of the club entering administration. The south coast are still likely to face a nine-point deduction in the Premier League but will now avoid a winding up order after HMRC accepted that owner Balram Chainrai was legally [...]
Continue reading...Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim tops Forbes rich list
According to the Forbes rich list Carlos Slim, the Mexican telecoms bazillionaire, has pushed Bill Gates off the top spot as the world’s richest man. The list also showed that China now has more billionaires than any other country besides the US, while the Grosvenor family were the only UK-based billionaires to make it into [...]
Continue reading...De Niro to call plays as NFL coach Vince Lombardi
Oscar winner Robert De Niro is to play renowned American Football coach Vince Lombardi in a new big screen biopic, it has been confirmed. The Taxi Driver star, who won an Academy award in 1980 for playing real-life boxing champion Jake LaMotta, will star as the Green Bay Packers’ greatest coach in Lombardi, a new production [...]
Continue reading...Kaka asks for forgiveness after Lyon defeat
Real Madrid forward Kaka has apologised to the club’s fans after the big-spending club were knocked out of the Champions League by Lyon. The Spanish side crashed out Europe’s premier club competition after Miralem Pjanic’s late equaliser for Lyon, sending the French team through 2-1 on aggregate. Real Madrid spent £240 million last summer, purchasing the likes [...]
Continue reading...UK journalist accused of espionage by Hamas is freed
A British journalist accused of being an Israeli spy has been freed by Hamas after the Palestinian group held him captive in the Gaza Strip for the last month. Paul Martin was arrested in mid-February as he arrived in Gaza to testify in the defence of a Palestinian man himself accused of espionage. Hamas did not formally [...]
Continue reading...Three MPs and peer deny false accounting over expenses claims
Three Labour MPs and one Conservative peer have denied charges of fraudulent expenses claims as the political scandal of the decade finally reached the courts. Labour MPs Elliot Morley, Jim Devine and David Chaytor, as well as Conservative peer Lord Hanningfield, have been charged with 13 charges under section 17 of the Theft Act 1968 for [...]
Continue reading...BA and union leaders reach stalemate over threatened strikes
Leaders for Unite and British Airways (BA) will be meeting later today to decide if, and when, strikes by cabin crew will be held. Union leaders have until March 15th to announce a date for strike action, and it must give the airline a full week’s notice before cabin crew can walk out over a long-running [...]
Continue reading...Felipe Massa looking for large Ferrari points haul in Bahrain
Felipe Massa is looking for a large points haul at the opening race of the season in Bahrain, following Ferrari’s impressive form during winter testing. The Brazilian makes a comeback to his race-seat with the Maranello-based team, having made a full recovery from the injuries he sustained from being struck on the head by a piece [...]
Continue reading...Heart patients being ‘failed’ by doctors over cholesterol levels
A study out today has claimed doctors are failing to lower heart patients’ cholesterol levels adequately, with women particularly at risk. According to research in the European Heart Journal only half of all patients at high risk of heart disease are given correct targets for lowering their cholesterol levels. The study, of 25,250 patients in Germany, investigated [...]
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19. October 2009
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