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Dust to Dust, Back to Black Amy Winehouse Dies
With her gravelly voice and eclectic style, Amy Winehouse, 27, who has been found dead in London, won comparison with some of the great female singers such as Sarah Vaughan and Nina Simone. But like another great singer, Janis Joplin, she had a talent for self destruction, and fought a long battle against substance abuse. ...
Harry Potter The Final Adventure
It all ends,” says the poster slogan. A grim statement of the obvious, of course, yet the Potter saga could hardly have ended on a better note. With one miraculous flourish of its wand, the franchise has restored the essential magic to the Potter legend – which had been starting to sag and drift in ...
Beaver Falls Summer Camp
The key to a great summer camp is the quality of its staff. At Beaver Falls, we pride ourselves on recruiting only the finest, most morally upstanding young adults from across the globe. So you can rest easy knowing your children are in safe hands at Beaver Falls!” Meet Flynn (Samuel Roberston), A-Rab (Arsher Ali) ...
Dirty Dancing Remake Lionsgate Films
Hit 1980s film Dirty Dancing is to return to the big screen, a Hollywood film studio has said. Lionsgate is remaking the 1987 film that starred Jennifer Grey opposite Patrick Swayze. Kenny Ortega, who choreographed the original, directed Michael Jackson movie This Is It and High School Musical, will direct the remake. “The opportunity to ...
Russell Brand sets up shop
British comedian and actor Russell Brand has launched his own film production company, based in Hollywood. Branded Films, which the Arthur star has set up with his business partner Nik Linnen, will be run from the Warner Bros studios in Burbank, California. The company will primarily work on developing films for Brand to star in. ...
England riots: Fightback says PM
“We needed a fightback and a fightback is under way”, the prime minister has said after four days of riots. David Cameron said every action would be taken to restore order, with contingency plans for water cannon to be available at 24 hours’ notice. On Tuesday night, unrest spread to cities including Manchester, Salford, Liverpool, ...
Gibraltar Explosion
Breaking News A massive fuel fire at Berth 1 East in Gibraltar is causing plooms of smoke, whilst fire fighters try to tackle the explosion. Many businesses have been evacuated, local workers say the building they where in started shaking, and people started puring onto the streets. Several fuel silos nearby are also in danger ...
British Women Beheaded Tenerife
A British woman has been beheaded in a busy supermarket in the Spanish holiday resort of Los Cristianos. Eyewitnesses reported seeing the killer run out of the store in Los Cristianos carrying the victim’s head, before being tackled by security guards. Officials have identified the woman as a 62-year-old British woman, and the suspect is ...
Earthquake rocks Lorca, Murcia
Hundreds of people have spent the night outdoors in the southern Spanish town of Lorca after an earthquake which killed at least 10 people. The magnitude-5.2 tremor toppled several buildings after striking at a depth of just 1km (0.6 miles), 120km south-west of Alicante. Lines of cars lay crushed under tonnes of rubble and a ...
Osama Bin Laden has been killed
Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has been killed by US forces in Pakistan, President Barack Obama has said. The al-Qaeda leader was killed in a ground operation outside Islamabad based on US intelligence, the first lead for which emerged last August. Mr Obama said after “a firefight”, US forces took possession of his body. Bin ...
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