Campaigners said there was compelling evidence advertisements for massage parlours and escort services – that bring in huge revenue for newspapers like the South London Press – are covers for brothels, some of which have links to trafficked women.Campaigners believe more than 40 per cent of men who access brothels do so through advertisements [...]
… Terrorist No. 1 in terms of threat against us,” in the words of Rep. Jane Harman, an intelligence expert. The sermons of the charismatic, Internet-savvy imam have been found in the possession of nearly every Islamist radical who has attacked Western targets in recent years, including the London subway bombers and Zachary Chesser, an [...]
The witching hour is nigh, the ghosts and ghouls are rattling round the house on the haunted hill, as the spookiest day of the year looms large. Yes, it’s almost Halloween and that means there are just a few days left for our US-based users to watch An American Werewolf in London on the site. [...]
There are riots in Paris and these girls are thinking about something they’ve never done – a strike for equal pay. Bob Hoskins, as their roly-poly union rep, Albert Passingham, thinks that would be a good idea.Not even their union is taking equal pay seriously. Rita O’Grady (Sally Hawkins) and Connie (Geraldine James) join [...]
This is not just a London issue. Birmingham has 12 strip clubs, but the council is debating whether to set the limit lower than that. If it does, this would force a “beauty parade” between existing operators, in which the council can decide which venues stay in business.…Stringfellow welcomes the sex establishment licences if they [...]
The challenge for any film whose central protagonists are essentially unpalatable is to somehow make them endearing and less morally reprehensible. In adherence to this convention, Simon Pegg’s Burke falls in love with Ginny, (Isla Fisher) an aspiring prostitute-cum-actress, who ropes him into financing her all-female production of Macbeth whilst Andy Serkis’ Hare aspires to [...]
The Roses of Whitechapel, completed by Jonathan Kaufman and Martin Stiff in 2000, delves into the tragic lives of the victims of London’s Victorian serial-killer, Jack the Ripper. The infamous murderer’s bloody story lives shrouded in mystery as nobody knew his identity.…“The victims were alluded to as unfortunate or fallen,” said Kaufman, whose last [...]
… October 29, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) While the media in the UK reported the murder of a 63 year old transvestite by a 34 year old Sri Lankan on Monday at King’s Cross tube station in Central London, Sri Lankan media highlighted her ethnicity as being a Tamil.…Media ethics is alien to Sri Lankan [...]
When Thackeray died, the last mourner at his graveside in London’s Kensal Green cemetery was Charles Dickens, the only English writer to achieve greater fame in the mid-19th century. Murray said: “Dickens, his great rival, stayed at his graveside for an hour after everyone else had left… [...]
It was an ordinary enough London winter’s evening: chilly, damp, and churning with crowds. I’d arranged to meet a friend at the Curzon Mayfair cinema, and after my packed tube had been held up between stations – ten sweaty minutes during which my fellow passengers had fumed silently, tutted audibly, and in one or two [...]