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 NEWSWATCH - Monday 31st July 2006

 

MEDIA
Who?

DROPPED  LEE RYAN one of the white guys from boy-band BLUE has been axed by his record company. His last single, When I Think Of You, only scraped into the charts at No15, writes the SUN. He'd been tipped for the top when the band split. In stark contrast SIMON WEBB (pictured above) isn't doing too badly and despite having not got the attention LEE and DUNCAN did during their BLUE days...Hmmm

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 also feature

TELEVISION
Black-watch

NON-ENTITY LOVE ISLAND has signed up  Dennis Rodman. ITV bosses hope that the former NBA star, who is believed to have slept with thousands of women, including  Madonna will spice things up on TV's most boring show Zzzzzz

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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 guidelines and make a submission and we'll take it from there.

 
 
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
 
 
 
MIGRANTS ' £150 UK ' FARE
Illegal immigrants are being smuggled into Britain from France for less than £150 a head. The price of a one-way “ticket” across the Channel to a new life is revealed by the Serious Organised Crime Agency. Sir Andrew Green, chairman of think-tank Migrationwatch UK, said: “This is not much more than the usual fare. 
 
MIGRANTS OUT OF CONTROL
Britain's schools, hospitals and housing are facing meltdown amid a massive surge in immigration, a secret Government report reveals. The Home Office fears an angry backlash as newcomers grab council houses and NHS beds and force wages down
 
PRISON SERVICE 'INSTITUTIONALLY CORRUPT'
More than 1,000 prison officers are believed to be involved in corruption, according to a leaked report into the Prison Service. The damaging report, which is the result of an investigation more than a year long, concludes that while most staff operate in an honest way, a significant number of officers are involved in corrupt practices
 
 
MAN WANTED FOR RWANDA GENOCIDE LIVING IN BRITAIN
His neighbours know him only as Celestin, a polite man who emerges from his home to attend church, or tend his garden in the street of neat bungalows on the Essex coast, where he has lived since 2000. To the government of Rwanda, and to his alleged victims, he is Mayor Celestin Ugirashebuja, a man accused of directing and inciting the slaughter of hundreds of Tutsis during the 1994 genocide, during which at least 800,000 people were killed. **WELL WORTH READING
 
CRIMINAL GANGS MOVING INTO CHILD INTERNET PORN 
Organised criminals are moving into child pornography and trafficking an increasing number of women to work as prostitutes in the UK, according to the first report from the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca)

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