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- Wednesday
9th
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TELEVISION
Black-watch |
 EASTENDERS You
don't have to watch it to dislike this rather
lamentable excuse for a soap opera. Rubbish character
- we mean road-sweeper - Gus gets dumped by
Sonia this week. ..and the Black woman (ex-BILL)
recovers from her beating (BBC18pm). |
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MEDIA
Who? |
 TOUCH
MAGAZINE gets a new editor in Paul
McKenzie. The writer, producer and presenter is set
to helm the popular music mag and give it a more
'lifestyle-ee' feel. McKenzie, who brought us the
2003 documentary Black Like Beckham ,is no stranger
to doing 'different' stuff. |
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What? |
 GROW
YOU OWN A judge declared
yesterday that growing Cannabis at home is 'no worse
than having tomato plants'. A judge refused to
impose an anti-social behaviour and a possession
order on the property as he declared the man was not
being a nuisance as everything was for personal
use. |
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MEDIA
Who? |
 CHIWETEL
EJIOFOR is to star in DANNY GLOVER's historical action epic based on the life of
Toussaint Louverture, who led a successful slave rebellion in the 18th century that sparked the Haitian Revolution.
Shooting in South Africa, Wesley Snipes
(Blade) and Don Cheadal (Hotel Rwanda) will
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Eh?
Black-watch |
 007
JAMIE BOND? OSCAR winner Jamie Foxx
reckons producers should have made 007 black. Foxx, who plays Tubbs in the
Miami Vice film, reckons rapper P Diddy, 36, deserved the role ahead of Brit Daniel
Craig. Foxx, said: “They’ve got to get with the times.
Diddy would have made a good Bond.”. Please
NO!!!! |
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Who? |
BLACK
BRITAIN's TOP 100 movers and shakers? WHO ARE
the Black people who influence the way we currently live?
If you think our list is not up-to-date, follow the
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We scan national
newspapers for stories that feature Black people and where
possible give you the opportunity to read them. For obvious
reasons we cannot reproduce these stories, but will show you
where to find them giving you the chance to view how the
different publications deal with Black subjects and portray
Black people. REMEMBER
these are not our words, but where the subject/person is
listed in on our site you will also be able to view things
from what we believe to be a wholly Black perspective
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RAID
PAIR 'IN DEATH TAUNT'
The two brothers at the centre of the Forest Gate terror probe have been accused of screaming at soldiers: “We hope you
die in Iraq.” And the pair pretended to machine-gun guardsmen outside their barracks near Buckingham Palace, it is alleged.
Sickened squaddies also claimed that the pair then SPAT. |
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GUILTY OF DAMILOLA KILLING
Brothers Ricky and Danny Preddie have been found guilty of the manslaughter of schoolboy Damilola Taylor.
They will be sentenced in two weeks. Earlier this year the pair, now 19 and 18, were found not guilty of murdering the
Black 10-year-old. They faced a retrial at the Old Bailey because the original jury could not agree on manslaughter verdict.
When the verdict was read out, Ricky Preddie shouted: "You must be crazy, I'm innocent." |
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JUSTICE
HAS FINALLY BEEN DONE FOR OUR DAMILOLA
 The parents of stabbed schoolboy
Damilola Taylor today said justice had finally been done as his killers were convicted of manslaughter.
Six years and three trials after his death, an Old Bailey jury convicted
the Preddie brothers - Ricky, 19, and Danny, 18 - of the 10-year-old's killing. |
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KFC
ROOFTOP BANDIT REFUSES TO APPEAR IN COURT
A man charged with a string of offences after a 20-hour rooftop siege caused controversy today by refusing to appear in court.
Barry Chambers, 27, from Gloucester, allegedly climbed on to the roof of a house in Gloucester city centre and hurled tiles, bricks and masonry down to the street below. |
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BROTHERS
CONVICTED OF DAMILOLA MANSLAUGHTER
Two teenagers were today convicted of the manslaughter of 10-year-old
Damilola Taylor on a south London housing estate six years ago.
Danny Preddie, 18, and his 19-year-old brother Ricky, of Peckham, south-east London, were found guilty at a retrial at the Old Bailey after an earlier jury could not reach a verdict.
Earlier this year, they were acquitted of Damilola's murder and assault charges. |
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FATE
OF STAR ATHLETE HANGS IN THE BALANCE
The athlete tipped to be
Britain's golden girl at the London 2012 Games had gone to ground
last night, fearing her Olympic dream was in tatters after it was
revealed she has missed three drug tests |
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STOP
GIVING HAVEN TO GENOCIDE SUSPECTS
Amnesty International is urging the attorney general to prosecute two Rwandan genocide suspects living in Britain.
Irene Khan, secretary general of the rights group, said that ministers must act in order to prevent the UK becoming a haven for those accused of crimes against humanity. |
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