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Cowell’s Verbal Attack On X Factor Judge Cheryl Unfair

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LONDON:  Simon Cowell was highly critical of fellow X Factor judge Cheryl Cole calling her bratish after she flew off the Los Angeles last week to meet with Universal bosses to sign a new $6 million record deal. Cole, 27, was apparently away all last week without a word to fellow judges and leaving her [...]

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Fabio Issues Alcohol Ban Ahead Of England Friendly

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LONDON:  Fabio Cappello, the England Football coach has issued an alcohol warning to his players ahead of the friendly against France on Wednesday night.  There will be no alcoholic drinks available for players when they attend the Watford training camp on Sunday and drinking alcoholic drinks will be forbidden. Capello has been a staunch supporter [...]

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Sir Elton John CBE Says No To Song Writing

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LONDON:  One of pops most endearing and successful male solo artists  is retiring from writing songs due to the approaching later years and competition from younger singer song writers.  Sir Elton John, an English singer songwriter, composer and pianist who is most famous for songs such as ‘Candle In The Wind’ which sold over 33 [...]

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Reformed Boy Band “Take That” Collect Gong At Q Awards

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LONDON: The Q Awards which were held at the Grosvenor House Hotel last night featured the Boy Band ‘Take That’ who collected a ‘Gong’ for being part of the music magazine’s “Hall of Fame” due to their long standing and phenomenal success in the music industry. With a new album due to be released next [...]

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Fraud Allegations Against ‘The Apprentice’ Contestant

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LONDON:  The popular television programme “The Apprentice” which resumes next week may be generating extra view figures as one of the contestants has reportedly been arrested on fraud allegations.  The contestant in question Christopher Farrell, 29, who is a mortgage broker, was taken in by Devon and Cornwall Police was interviewed for financial irregularities have [...]

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X Factor Bootcamp Trains 200 Young Hopefuls

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LONDON:  The last 200 contestants on the X Factor have been sharpening their performance and singing skills at the X Factor boot camp. The 200 will be whittled down to just 100 performers in tomorrow’s X factor which will be hosted by Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and guest judge Nicole Scherzinger. The boot camp has [...]

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3D Television Arrives Exclusively For Sky HD Viewers

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LONDON:  Sky television is about to launch televisions very first 3D channel called Sky 3D which will be available for all of Europe showing films, sports and documentaries to millions of Sky+HD subscribers with no extra cost. A short film has been produced by Sky TV starring Stephen Fry which shows how 3D television works [...]

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World War II Secret Agent Found Dead In Flat

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LONDON:  Eileen Nearne, 89, an ex Special Operations Executive (SOE) died alone at home in Torquay on 2 Sep 10.  The old lady who had no known relatives had to pay for her own funeral and the arrangements were made by the local authorities. The local authorities who organised the funeral arrangements located documents and [...]

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Samurai Film Given Approval At Venice Film Festival

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VENICE:  A film made by Takashi Miike has been given a warm response at the Venice Film Festival.  Called “13 Assassins” is a remake of an old black and white film of the same name made in 1963 by Eiichi Kudo’s where a small band of brave men take on an evil and powerful tyrant [...]

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Queen Vic’s Landlady Peggy Mitchell Retires After 16 Years Service

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LONDON:  The East Enders most famous landlady, Peggy Mitchell (Barbara Windsor) bows out of the show next week in dramatic fashion. Last nights episode involved the Eastenders Pub the Queen Vic going up in flames after an angry family argument and this has not been the first time the old pub has been set on [...]

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