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Week ending 8 July 2007

BBC CALLS TIME ON SPACEGIRL MARTHA JONES

NEWS - No sooner had she started to gather a fan base it's all over for Doctor Who sidekick Dr Martha Jones, Freema Agyeman. Scriptwriters have pulled the plug on the girl destined to become Dr Who's most popular sidekick ever, one series in. Was it really written in the stars? Is this another BBC whitewash? Intelligent, sexy and Black, what more could you want from a female character on British TV? Saturday evenings on the BBC won't be the same. Thank God the football season is nearly here.

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HAMILTON'S HITCH IN RACE TO THE TOP OF F1

SPORT JEALOUSLY Well, that has to be at the back of the mind somewhere. Why else would Lewis Hamilton's McLaren team-mate Fernando Alonso constantly make digs at current the championship leader? Surely it's not because he's black, a rookie and a handful of podium finishes away from re-writing the record books again. Hertfordshire born Hamilton has achieved a top-three finish in every race this season. HIS PROFILE>> LINK>>

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BACK TO BLACK FOR BROWN AS PAT MOVES UP

POLITICS Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been appointed Dominica born Baroness Patricia Scotland Attorney General - she's only the third Black person ever to hold a cabinet seat. Also moving up is Tottenham MP David Lammy and City finance hotshot Damon Buffini. Former chancellor Brown has upped the number of Black people in the Government inner circle and will take advantage of their expertise in their respective fields. NEWS>>

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FULLER FORCE ON VERGE OF CAGING £53m MEN

CRIME Kent Police Chief Constable Michael Fuller vowed his force would track down the men behind Britain's biggest ever heist. If the case, currently before the courts, results in convictions it could only be another pip on the shoulder of Britain's highest ranking Black police officer. Could the very hands on chief now be in line to become the next Metropolitan Police Commissioner? READ HIS PROFILE>> .

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GOOD NEWS FOR MEL AS SPICE GIRLS REUNITE

ENTERTAINMENT Just days after confirmation that Hollywood star Eddie Murphy is the father of Mel B's youngest child comes the news the Spice Girls will reform for a world tour to take place in December and January. The girls have not performed on stage together since Ginger Spice Geri Halliwell quit in May 1998.The shows, which includes a London and LA shows will net Mel B millions - after all you can't live on royalties alone. NEWS>>

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