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Prince William And Kate Middleton’s Canadian / US Tour Itinerary

DETAILS of William and Kate’s nine-day royal tour of Canada that kicks off next week in Ottawa have been announced. Governor General David Johnston and Heritage Minister James Moore outlined the itinerary at a news conference in Ottawa Tuesday. It is the couple’s first official tour since their storybook wedding at Westminster Abbey in London [...]

Twitter ‘Recognition’ For Laurel-Ann Hardie

CANADIAN woman Laurel-Ann Hardie is today, better known than she was last month following the revelation of her name on Twitter. Many people suspected the name was fake when it first surfaced online, but it has since emerged it is the real name of a Canadian academic, reported Metro. Professor Laurel-Ann Hardie, a lecturer working [...]

Fence Built Through Football Goalposts Is ‘Own Goal’

WORKMEN have built a fence… straight through a football goal on a playground pitch. The £6,000 steel structure has been installed along the side of land used for kick-abouts next to a play area on Stray Road in York, but it bisects the goalposts and goes under the cross bar. The posts now stand either [...]

Tradition Of Cricket Lives On In Hollywood

Journalist James Bartlett plays cricket for Beverly Hills & Hollywood Cricket Club. James contacted the UJ with this interesting piece, and recruiting anyone interested in playing. WAY BACK in the late 1920s, a British actor and former professional cricketer named Aubrey Smith came to Hollywood. Alongside auditioning for movie roles, he was keen to set [...]

Galliano Blames Actions On His ‘Triple Addiction’

PARIS – Former Dior designer John Galliano took the stand Wednesday and testified that he remembers nothing about allegedly using anti-Semitic slurs at a Paris cafe due to his “triple addiction” to alcohol, barbiturates and sleeping pills. Charges that the outspoken British designer insulted several patrons of a Paris cafe with anti-Semitic remarks shocked the [...]

Casting Call To British Men

LOOKING TO cast British Men from age 18 years old to 80 for a Phillip Seymore Hoffman film. They are needed this Thursday, June 23rd and Friday the 24th, shooting in Berkeley California. We need a recent photo and contact number ASAP.  It is paid of course. Director is Paul Thomas Anderson, from Boogie Night, [...]

BA Apologises For Refusing Travel To Down Syndrome Girl

BRITISH AIRWAYS staff refused a seat on a flight from London’s Gatwick Airport to Glasgow, based on the passenger being a 12-year-old Down Syndrome girl. Airline telephone staff refused to sell a plane ticket to Alice Saunders for an unaccompanied trip from London’s Gatwick Airport to Glasgow. Her mother, Heather Saunders, was told it was [...]

Hitler’s Drinking Glasses Up For Auction

A SET OF drinking glasses that once belonged to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler will put up for sale in Britain and are expected to fetch up to £8,000 at the auction today. The set of four glasses with swastikas and the dictator’s initials, A.H will be auctioned at the Northamptonshire Auction Centre, the Daily Mail [...]

BBC America July Highlights

MINISTRY OF LAUGHS BBC AMERICA brings the best of British comedy to the US in a two-hour block, Ministry of Laughs every Saturday night. Hosted by Chris Hardwick of the Nerdist, the collection features the most hilarious series from the UK including two new family comedies, Friday Night Dinner and Outnumbered, and the UK’s biggest [...]

Belfast Marks 100th Anniversary Of Titanic Launch

The doomed Titanic was launched into Belfast Lough on May 31, 1911. Ten months later, more than 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers and crew drowned or froze to death awaiting rescue after it struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage to New York City.

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