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A 'tiny minority' of Blackpool FC fans have been criticised by police, who said a racially sensitive chant had been heard at two of the club's recent away games.
The chants, which are believed to have been Islamophobic in nature, were allegedly sung by a small number of fans at matches against Luton Town on Saturday April 6 and Bradford City on Saturday March 23.
A Seasiders Police spokesman said: "It has been brought to our attention that a racially sensitive chant has been sung at the last two away fixtures by a (and I must stress) tiny minority of fans. This is unacceptable and cannot happen again. Please do not ruin the good name of Blackpool FC supporters."
A club spokesman said: "The Football Club has been made aware of a couple of incidences at recent away matches and echoes the message sent out by Lancashire Police.
"The club works hard with Kick It Out, Show Racism the Red Card and the Community Trust to eradicate all forms of discrimination, which have no place in football or society.
LAS VEGAS (AP) � The newest Miss USA is leaving a white-collar job behind for the glamour and excitement that go with her new role � and she can't wait.
Moments after she was crowned at the Planet Hollywood hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday, Connecticut accountant Erin Brady said all she could think about was letting her bosses know she won't be coming in tomorrow. Or ever again.
As her family and fiance looked on, Brady beat out other contestants from every U.S. state and Washington, D.C., to take the title, accepting the crown from outgoing queen Miss Maryland Nana Meriwether.
She wore an orange bikini with a matching halter top as she strutted to The Jonas Brothers' "Pom Poms." Later, she donned a strapless gown with a spangled golden corset and long white train.
In the pageant's final minutes, she answered without hesitation a question about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold widespread DNA tests.
"If someone is being prosecuted and committed a crime, it should happen. There are so many crimes that if that's one step closer to stopping them, then we should be able to do so," Brady said.
Miss Utah, meanwhile, apparently stumbled in response to a question about income disparity, providing a rambling, halting answer that included an invocation to "create education better."
As Miss USA, Brady will live in a swanky Manhattan apartment and travel the world raising awareness about breast cancer, but she has an additional goal of her own: Helping children cope with the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which have marked those close to her.
"I grew up in a family influenced by that and I think it's really important to help the children of families that are suffering from those problems," Brady told The Associated Press.
Her father, Francis, said he always knew his math-oriented daughter was a glamour girl. She and her sisters used to strut around and pretend they were beauty queens.
Her sister, Audrey, 20, said with tears in her eyes that her grandmother, who was watching from home, would orchestrate the pretend shows.
"She'd be like, 'Prance around the pool like Miss America.'"
The family was taken by surprise two years ago when Brady announced she would be entering the Miss Connecticut competition, but they cheered her on.
"She just went up there on a whim, man. But it was like, 'Just go for it. There should be more people like you who are competing, where it's not all about the hair and the makeup, but personality, too,'" Audrey said.
Brady said she hopes her background will help dispel negative associations held by some toward pageants.
"I think that now more than ever, they're accepting that we're all intelligent individuals and that it's really not a stereotype," she said.
Unlike the rival Miss America pageant, Donald Trump's Miss USA doesn't ask its queens to perform a talent or choose a charity mission.
As suspenseful music played on Sunday night before the winner announcement, Brady held hands with first runner-up Mary Margaret McCord, of Alabama. McCord could be seen saying, "I love you." Miss Illinois Stacie Juris was second runner-up.
Brady's beaming fiance, Tony Capasso, said he advised her to compete without makeup.
The Central Connecticut State University finance major will represent the U.S. at the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow this winter. Last year's Miss USA, Olivia Culpo, won that international crown, becoming the first Miss USA to ascend to Miss Universe in 16 years. Brady said she is determined to pull off the feat for the U.S. again.
For the next few days, though, she just hopes to unwind with a routine that sounded not very different from her training regime: hitting the gym and getting her beauty sleep.
Since 2011, an unknown internet troll has allegedly been lying about UK businessman Daniel Hegglin, calling him – among other things – a Mafioso, a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer, a paederast, a “bribed worm”, and a “Naziterrorist principal of murders”.
Three years after first discovering some 3600 abusive, defamatory postings along those lines and having taken Google to court in order to get them taken down, Hegglin has reached a settlement with the company.
When Hegglin first requested that Google block the anonymous posts from its search results, the company asked him to provide a list of web links to be removed.
That would be all but impossible, Hegglin said, given that listing thousands of posts for Google to remove would be expensive, time consuming, and ineffective.
Details of the settlement, reached on Sunday, haven’t been disclosed, but some of the search results have already come down.
Hegglin told the BBC that although Google didn’t create the smear campaign, its search engines have allowed the abuse to spread.
Thus, he was seeking a legal order to force Google to take steps to prevent the abusive posts being processed in searches in England and Wales.
As of Tuesday, the top link returned by a Google search in the UK on Hegglin’s name was still trollery, it being a diatribe on Facebook against Hegglin.
There was more abusive and expletive-filled content further down the search results too.
Hugh Tomlinson QC told Mr Justice Jay at a High Court hearing that Google, being sympathetic to Hegglin, was doing what it could to remove the trollery.
The settlement includes significant efforts on Google's part to remove the abusive material from Google-hosted websites and from its search results. Mr Hegglin will now concentrate his energies on bringing the person responsible for this campaign of harassment to justice.
very pleased the dispute had been resolved to both parties' mutual satisfaction.
Image of troll courtesy of Shutterstock.
Was there a cash settlement involved with this?
This is exactly the kind of publicity which will spawn copycat trolling of the victim.
Probably the most effective response is bringing attention to the case. The search result will be filled with stories about his battle with a troll rather than the trollings.
ANKENY, Iowa — An Ankeny couple are accused of physically abusing their six-week-old son.
Anthony Weber and Jennifer Stoddard are charged with child neglect and child endangerment. Police say their investigation into the couple began when Weber called 911 to report his son was having trouble breathing.
Doctors say they child had injuries consistent with abuse over a period of weeks. Both Weber and Stoddard are being held on $10,000 cash only bonds.
Stephen Colbert criticized Iowa senator Chuck Grassley and his attempts to strong-arm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser into testifying during Thursday’s Late Show.
Instead, the committee itself has pledged to look into Ford’s allegations. “Have you seen who’s on the Senate Judiciary Committee? I wouldn’t trust those geezers to investigate a restaurant menu,” Colbert said.
Colbert also chastised Grassley for imposing a Friday morning deadline for Ford’s decision to testify on Monday. “The U.S. Senate is known for two things: Moving at lightning speed, and not caring what abused women have to say about Supreme Court nominees,” Colbert said.
“Now here’s the thing: They don’t actually need to hear testimony on Monday, it’s a totally artificial deadline that they are setting for themselves,” Colbert said.
Manchester United have been plagued by inconsistency this season, and must put together a complete 90-minute performance to get anything from their Champions League game at Juventus later on Wednesday, Ryan Giggs has said.
United were comprehensively outplayed in a 1-0 defeat to the Italian champions at Old Trafford last month.
While they have beaten Everton and Bournemouth in their two matches since, Giggs said they are still blowing hot and cold.
titles at United, told British media.
don’t turn up for 45 minutes you will not win.
Under construction since January 2003, and in the planning stages for three years before that, the 310-acre park represents Disney’s boldest move yet into China’s vast and rapidly emerging market of 1.3 billion people.
Modeled after the original Disneyland in Anaheim, but with a feng shui twist here and a few culturally sensitive innovations there, Hong Kong is Disney’s latest entry in the growing Asian amusement industry ” and much is riding on it. If successful, analysts say, it will boost other Disney ventures in China, including product licensing, mass media and a second park on the mainland, probably in Shanghai.
Comic book fans will be taking a moment of silence today, as Steve Ditko one of the most influential Marvel writers has been found dead in his apartment, he was 90.
New York police have confirmed this news to The Hollywood Reporter, who have said that Ditko left no family behind and was actually dead for two whole days before being found.
For those that aren't familiar with who Ditko is, they would of certainly heard about his work. Ditko co-created Spider-Man with Stan Lee back in 1961, two years later in 1963 he created Dr. Strange. Both of which have now grown into some of the best superhero films to date. Ditko eventually left Marvel under a unknown reason, here is what he had to say about the matter "I know why I left Marvel, but no one else in this universe knew or knows why. It may be of a mild interest to realize that Stan Lee chose not to know, or hear why, I left."
Nestled in a private corner of exclusive Hids Copse Road on the outskirts of Oxford, Water Combe is a brand new property constructed to an extraordinarily high standard with an astonishing attention to detail. The property is full of light and space with most rooms having a double aspect and large windows designed to take advantage of the far reaching and garden views. Bespoke features include a luxurious designer kitchen/breakfast room, generous reception rooms, spacious hallways and landings, an internal green oak frame which adds stunning character, wide oak floors, large bedrooms and fabulous bathrooms with Bateau bath tubs. Set within 1.2 acres, the landscaping has been designed around the Fairy Glen at the bottom of the garden and the Fairy theme continues throughout the house and garden. This enchanting home has had no expense spared to create a unique home for the discerning buyer. EPC Rating B.
RUPERT Murdoch's purchase of Today has certainly shown there's no monopoly of humbug anyway. Nothing is more amusing than the national press in a bogus fit of moral indignation. let there be no doubt,' fumed the Independent, 'Lord Young was stitched up.' Stitched up — really! Is that the kind of expression Mr Andreas Whittam-Smith ought to use in his chaste, not to say stuffy, journal?
'Is Mr Murdoch,' raged John Junor in the Sunday Express, 'being given Today as his reward for having supported Mrs Thatcher during the election?' Can Old Mortality honestly expect us to believe such rubbish? In the first place Tiny Rowland was not giving the paper to anybody. Most people would regard £38 million as a stiff price for the privilege of losing up to £600,000 a week. And in the second, Mrs Thatcher is about the last person on earth Tiny is likely to oblige, since he has been pursuing her and her family with one of the most vicious cam- paigns in modern British journalism.
The Daily Telegraph had the honesty to admit the truth: 'Most national newspap- ers, including ourselves, have reason to fear the impact of Mr Murdoch's formid- able powers upon Today's performance in the marketplace. Some of the most anguished and least worthy howls of pro- test about the Government's decision have come from those who have most to lose by it.' Nonetheless, the Telegraph, like all the rest, thought Lord Young should have referred the matter to the Monopolies Commission. Well they would, wouldn't they? There is nothing newspapers like to see more than for one of their competitors to be placed in limbo for three months, while a committee of the great and the good, accompanied by swarms of Whitehall bureaucrats, crawl over its crumbling fortunes, its good journalists leave and its readers are up for grabs. The non-Murdoch papers are cross about the Government's decision not to intervene partly, as the Telegraph said, from fear, but also because their cannibalistic in- stincts have been frustrated. Far from being concerned about monopoly, they all wanted Today to go bust.
The truth is that the press provision of the 1973 Fair Trade Act is unworkable. It is a typical piece of Ted Heath legislation: in the words of Kingsley Amis, a pseudo- solution to a non-problem. The genuine problem of the national press was, and to a great extent still is, not a monopoly of ownership but a monopoly of labour, practised by the closed-shop unions. Heath's 1971 Industrial Relations Act did nothing about it. Even the mighty Inland Revenue were forced to bow to the power of the print unions in those dark days of the Seventies. Now the labour monopolies in the newspaper industry are being eroded, first by Mrs Thatcher's three anti-union bills, and second by the courage of Eddy Shah and Murdoch in tackling the unions head-on.
What makes the other groups so fright- ened about the Today purchase is that they have not themselves displayed a similar courage. Though all are now, in the wake Of Wapping, moving shop and embracing new technology, not one of them has dared to do so without agreement with the old unions, so that they will be tranSplanting to the new sites many of the most destructive Fleet Street habits, including the closed Shop itself and union control of entry. That leaves Murdoch and his papers with a telling competitive advantage. It will of course be enhanced by his acquisition of the Today plant, where union labour is equally on tap rather than on top. The other groups are afraid of Murdoch not as a monopolist, as they claim, but as an enemy of the real monopolists.
The row also reveals the political naivety of certain newspaper editors. Did they honestly expect Lord Young, of all people, to invoke Whitehall interference in a pure- ly commercial matter in order to put at risk 500 jobs? Have they not yet grasped the point that this government believes in a market economy? The moral arguments, in so far as they have any bearing, are entirely on the side of the transfer. For it removes Today from the control of a man who is, in my view, quite unfit to own national newspapers, and places it in the hands of a genuine newspaperman who, whatever his faults, has never used his media power to boost his commercial interests. Murdoch does not believe in monopoly but in a free-for-all. He is a market democrat who thinks newspapers should reflect the tastes not of civil servants or MPs or the Press Council or lecturers in media studies but of the people who are actually prepared to buy them. I agree with him. So, I am glad to see, does the Government.
Whether Murdoch's purchase of Today will turn out to be a smart move is quite another matter. The high-tech colour presses are something he needs but making a success of Today will be difficult and expensive. Murdoch has a better touch at saving chronic invalids than any other newspaper doctor. But you can easily become over-confident in the print trade. I remember Denis Hamilton, who had had an enormous triumph at the Sunday Times, telling me that, by applying similar techni- ques to the Times, which Roy Thomson had just bought, 'we will be generating profits within six months'. In the event, the Times came close to jeopardising the entire Thomson empire. Murdoch now has an even bigger empire, and it looks over- extended to me, not so much financially as in terms of talent and his own atten- tion. The middle range in the daily news- paper market is a quicksand, or rather a greedy sponge which soaks up money. Lord Rothermere has poured scores of millions into the Mail on Sunday and it still needs more, even with the help of the best colour mag in Britain. Murdoch's first moves at Today, which are carrying it rapidly downmarket, seem to me to betray a confusion of purpose — characteristic of an empire grown too big to direct coherently.
A mom in Oklahoma has been arrested for allegedly spanking her 5-year-old son with a bag of glass. Alicia Anne Croney brought her son to the emergency room with cuts on his legs so deep they needed surgery. And she brought a very suspicious story to explain it. Supposedly she caught her son playing video games when he wasn't supposed to be. She grabbed a Doritos bag out of the garbage to spank her son with and "forgot" that it contained glass.
I mean ... where do you even begin with this story? Spanking your child with a chips bag? That doesn't even make sense! Unless Croney was just so blind with rage she was grabbing at anything -- in which case, she shouldn't be spanking at all. She should be putting herself into a time-out until she can think straight and not grab things out of the freaking garbage to hit her son with.
That someone would spank someone with a Doritos bag is highly unlikely. Not that it didn't happen, but it seems like of all things that you would have at your disposal in your home, a Doritos bag ... I'm just not finding the relevance as far as how that would discipline a child.
Right? Even when you factor in the rest of the details -- Croney says she and her son were cleaning up pieces of broken glass when the dog ran away with a piece, so she had to chase the dog, and then she found her son playing video games -- they still don't make any sense. For starters, why is she asking a 5-year-old to help clean up broken glass?
Whatever the real story is, it sounds like Croney needs help. Bringing a child to the hospital with those horrible cuts, not coming up with an explanation that makes any sense at all, broken glass, dogs -- it sounds like a life that's spun out of control. Her poor son. What a traumatic experience, regardless of what really happened. I hope he finds a kinder, more patient caregiver while they sort this all out.
What do you think really happened here?
Despite their 2016 split, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie remain connected by their children -- and their wine!
The former couple's winery, Miraval, announced on Tuesday its plans to release a brand new rosé, titled Studio by Miraval.
The bottle, which will release on March 5, is a blend of estate-grown Grenache, Rolle, Cinsault and Tibouren grapes, and is named after the property's past as a recording studio. Artists like Pink Floyd, AC/DC and Sade have all recorded at the winery, after jazz musician Jacques Loussier, who owned the estate in 1977, installed a recording studio above the wine cellar. According to a press release, the winery's current owners -- Pitt and Jolie -- "intend to preserve" the inspiring nature of the property that has lured musicians over the years.
Jolie and Pitt finalized their purchase of Miraval in 2012, after finding the property four years earlier. They tied the knot on the property in August 2014. Their separation two years later was followed by rumors that the 1200-acre French estate would be put up for sale, but alas, it appears the former spouses are committed to the estate and their award-winning line of rosé.
The news of Miraval's new wine comes just two months after ET learned that Jolie and Pitt had come to an agreement on the custody of their six kids -- 17-year-old Maddox, 15-year-old Pax, 14-year-old Zahara, 12-year-old Shiloh and 10-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
Rock band The Glammed will be performing at Levisham Station.
The heritage railway is encouraging all guests to get into the spirit and throw their best 1970s glad rags on.
Visitors who wear platform shoes with their outfits will avoid a platform charge when attending the event.
Popular rock band The Glamned will be performing at Levisham Station.
The station will also have its own real ale bar, serving up the perfect pints to sip on during a summer day out with the family.
Plenty of fun is also planned at Pickering and Goathland Stations, where there will be a 70s pop up museum and 70s display vehicles respectively, with the latter looking forward to welcoming DJ Lynn, who will be on the 1s and 2s for the majority of the weekend.
From Class 55 ‘Pinza’ to Class 26 ‘Tom Clift’, not to mention Class 40 D213 ‘Andania’ and a range of other locomotives.
Chris Price, general manager at North Yorkshire Moors Railway, said: “We are extremely excited to be hosting two great events across one weekend and we are sure that it will leave smiles on the faces of both children and adults alike.
“Fancy dress always makes for a good event and we don’t doubt our visitors for one second, we know they are going to pull out all the stops and turn up in the best 70s gear; it’s going to feel like we have jumped into a time machine.
Prices from £26 for adults and £13 for children or families can take advantage of the family ticket, starting from £54. Pickering to Grosmont or Grosmont to Pickering return.
For further information or to pre-book tickets online before your visit, go to www.nymr.co.uk/timetables-and-fares/fares.
A pedestrian is dead following a collision with an LRT train, Edmonton police said.
A 22-year-old pedestrian was wearing earbuds when he was fatally struck by an LRT train Friday, said city police.
The police major collision investigation section investigated the collision at 115A Street and 60 Avenue around noon Friday and determined the death to be “accidental,” police in an email just after 3 p.m. Friday.
It was reported by witnesses that the man was crossing northbound in a marked LRT pedestrian crossing, said police.
City buses replaced LRT service between South Campus and Century Park stations as officers investigated.
Linda Cochrane, City of Edmonton manager, said the city is offering its condolences to the family of the man.
Support services are being offered to the approximately 100 passengers on board as well as the LRT operator.
There is a pedestrian gate, flashing lights and bells and arms at the crossing and the city believes they were all in operation at the time, Cochrane said.
“We have horns and the driver has the ability to slow down,” Cochrane said.
LOS ANGELES -- L. Ron Hubbard's ashes have been scattered over the Pacific Ocean, but the spirit of the reclusive founder of the Church of Scientology 'lives on' and will influence mankind for thousands of years, church officials say.
'I feel what he has accomplished in the brief span of one lifetime will have impact on every man, woman and child for the next 10,000 years,' the Rev. Ken Hoden, church president, said Tuesday. Hubbard died last week on his Central California ranch at age 74.