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Archive for August, 2009

Paul McCartney ‘confident he’ll outlive Ringo’

Sir Paul McCartney has spoken out for the first time about his fear of dying before Ringo. ‘It seems only right and proper that I should be the last to go,’ he said, ‘and I imagine most listeners would want that too,’ he said in an interview on Radio 3.

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Posted: Aug 31st, 2009
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News series of ‘The Choir’ to come from private choristers school

'Why not just get people who can actually sing?' The BBC docu-series ‘The Choir’ in which choirmaster Gareth Malone takes a group of deprived and alienated teenagers and turns them into a choir is to focus in future on privileged, musically-gifted children who are already at a choristers school.

The new series will see Gareth Malone attempting to assemble a choir from a group of classically trained young singers who have already performed at cathedrals and festivals, and who will not be embarrassed or over-awed by the scale of the task ahead of them.

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Posted: Aug 31st, 2009
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Murdoch claims British media ‘not being run solely for the benefit of our family’

James Murdoch, chief executive of News Corporation in Europe and Asia has told a conference of British media executives that the dominance of the BBC is ‘making it really hard for us to create a Murdoch-run media monopoly’.

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Posted: Aug 30th, 2009
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Grandparent commends off-spring’s superior parenting skills

'doing a much better job than I did...'‘I have absolutely no suggestions as to how she could improve her quite brilliant maternal prowess.’

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Posted: Aug 30th, 2009
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Heat magazine warns of ‘no-skills’ shortage timebomb

Heat magazine has today expressed concerns that Britain could be facing a serious shortage of pointless Z-list ‘celebrities’ following Channel 4’s announcement that it is to scrap Big Brother.

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Posted: Aug 29th, 2009
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