Dwaine Chambers - is best known, unfortunately for him as a drug cheat athlete which may forever shroud any past or future achievements in sport. Born in 1978 he recently (2008) made successful inroads into a return to the track, even representing his country after a ban and self-exile during which he tried American football. His achievements whether drug-tainted or not include the 100 metres and sprint relay gold in the 1995 European Juniors, a bronze medal at the 1999 World Championships. He won the 100m at the 2002 European Championships and anchored Great Britain to victory in the 4x100m relay and silver at the 2003 World Championships. He failed a drug test on 1 august 2003 testing positive for the banned anabolic steroid THG and given a two-year ban by UK Athletics and later banned for life from the Olympics and stripped of the medals he'd after 2002. His Great Britain relay team-mates were also stripped of their relay medals - something that upset former relay team-mate Darren Campbell. Later Chambers would also be asked to pay back close to £200,000 in earners, more medals and have his records annulled, before being allowed to return to the international athletics circuit.
He returned to athletics in summer 2006 was part of the winning British 4x100m team. In 2008 in the 60m indoor final at the Birmingham games he finished in 6.60 seconds later qualified for the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships. At the World Indoor Championships he recorded a new personal best time and finished second earning a silver medal. 
Despite the result and a possible appeal against a lifetime Olympic ban he joined English rugby league side Castleford Tigers in March 2008 on loan.

Craig Charles - is the Merseyside born actor best known for the role of David Lister in the BBC Sci-fi comedy Red Dwarth. Before entertainment he played football (most notably for Tranmere Rovers). His as it stands took off as a performance poet on the cabaret circuit, appearing as on the late-night comedy programme, Saturday Live and later as a presenter of children's TV programmes. He also presented the virtual reality gameshow CyberZone, shown in 1993 in the UK. He was married to Cathy Tyson (Band of Gold, Mona Lisa) from 1984 to 1989 and married his second wife, Jackie, on August 9, 1999. He presented the game show Robot Wars, on BBC Two and five, and has been a DJ on the radio station BBC 6 Music.
In 1994, he and a friend were arrested and remanded in custody for several months on a rape charge. The following year both were exonerated. His imprisonment delayed the production of BBC's Red Dwarf VII
Craig also provided the voice-over for the Japanese cable cult-show Takeshi's Castle and now has a regular gig in Coronation Street (the ITVs long running soap) as Lloyd the part-owner of 'Street Cars'.

 The Caribbean Times - Newspaper. Founded by the enigmatic Guyana-born businessman Arif Ali, the publication is now part of the Ethnic Media Group of newspapers. The Caribbean Times is edited by journalist and author Ron Shillingford and is one of the longest standing Black interest newspapers

Barbara Campbell - The publisher and editor of LIVE listings Magazine a multicultural listings publication that combines arts and business. A former editor of The Weekly Journal newspaper (the broadsheet stable-mate to The Voice), she has amongst other things lectured in journalism. In addition she’s been an executive member of the NUJ’s Black Members Council. As a publisher her titles include the magazines Black Heritage and the International Women’s Month magazine, both of which have won her much recognition and numerous accolades. She is a single mother of two who never gives up, as her career so far has proved

Horrett Campbell - Wolverhampton machete maniac. Not long after a gunman marched into a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland killing and wounding several children, Britain was stunned by the actions of the Midlands based Campbell. Two children were severely injured in the attack at their nursery school by the 33 year-old paranoid schizophrenic who launched his assault during a teddy bear's picnic in 1996. He was ordered to be detained indefinitely after being convicted of seven counts of attempted murder

Winsome Grace Cornish - former editor of the Voice Newspaper currently project managing Operation Black Vote's (OBV) shadowing scheme.

Carl Cox - trance playing DJ, or is it house? It can all sound very similar. All the same, Cox is reported to have worked non-stop over the Millennium - that's when 1999 turned into the year 2000 - across numerous time zones and continents. He is without a doubt a top DJ.

Carl Cushnie - Mr Cushnie, founder of the trade finance group Versailles and once listed in the Sunday Times Rich List with an estimated fortune of over £350 million. Amid allegations of improper accounting and fraud, his company, Versailles went bust in December 1999. The case relating to the company's demise and manner of accounting was heard in 2003/04. Although Cushnie categorically denied the allegations levelled against him he was jailed for six years in summer 2004

Crack cocaine - the scourge of Black Britain's criminal classes. It takes the shape of a small white rock and is a purified highly addictive form of cocaine which is smoked in a crude pipe, bottle or can  

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