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Why David Cameron Can’t Sack His Spin Doctor, Andy Coulson?
13th July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
It's no surprise to me that there are allegations of mass phone tapping undertaken by NEWS OF THE WORLD journalists and their sleuths. Among the hundreds of celebrities caught up in the controversy are Gwyneth Paltrow, Sir Alex Ferguson, Elle McPherson, Jade Goody, John Prescott and Alan Shearer. There are suggestions that there might be a rash of law-suits filed against the NEWS OF THE WORLD following their hundreds of thousands of...
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Is Michael Owen Really A Gamble?
6th July 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Many commentators have showered scorn on Michael Owen joining Manchester United and others have remarked that Sir Alex Ferguson has finally lost his touch in the transfer market. I think it's a great deal. Ronaldo signed for Real Madrid for 80 million pounds and Kaka joined the same team for 56 million. It's rumoured that Real Madrid, trying to relaunch their Galatico brand, wanted the French striker, Franck Ribery and...
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Alex Wheatle
Alex Wheatle was born in 1963 to Jamaican parents living in London. He spent most of his childhood in a children's home which he left at 14 to live in a hostel in Brixton. At 18 he was involved in the Brixton uprising and went to prison for 3 months. On his release, he continued to perform as a DJ and MC under the name Yardman Irie, moving in the early '90s onto the performance poetry circuit as the Brixton Bard. His second novel, East Of Acre Lane, won the London New Writers Award (2000) The Dirty South is his sixth novel. He received an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2008.
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