The Jamaican mother of Stephen Lawrence, who was tragically murdered in a racist incident in 1993, has done huge amounts of community work in her son’s name since. A tireless campaigner for justice, Baroness Lawrence became a Labour peer in July 2013 and was also a guest on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs in June 2012.
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Baroness Doreen Lawrence OBE
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Something and nothing
Rupert Murdoch’s comments on the police investigation into phone hacking have a degree of logic to them
In stating that the covertly recorded remarks made by Rupert Murdoch and broadcast on Channel 4 yesterday do actually have a degree of logic to them, some will suggest that we’re supporting an arrogant Citizen Kane like man. (more…)
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‘M’s’ the word
Theresa May agrees to fund full-scale Met inquiry into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann
Last year, Theresa May hosted a reception with a woman named Lady Meyer in Downing Street. Kate McCann, the mother of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in 2007, was amongst the guests. Now, it has been claimed that May has agreed to fund a full-scale Metropolitan Police inquiry into the McCann case.
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Tulisa hits Belgravia
Former N-Dubz singer Tulisa Contostavlos arrested and taken to Belgravia Police Station
We’re no fans of Tulisa here at The Steeple Times. Her music is appalling and her sex tape story was just tedious. That she calls herself a “role model” and an “inspiration” for “Broken Britain”. Plainly the girl is delusional and we weren’t, therefore, surprised to hear that she was arrested yesterday on suspicion of supplying class A drugs.
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Paedos and platitudes
Is it right that Amanda Platell faces a police investigation for looking at child porn?
Amanda Platell, the former press secretary to William Hague, wrote an article in yesterday’s Daily Mail in which she examined how easy it is to access child pornography. Later in the day, Mark Williams-Thomas, the “child protection expert” who exposed Jimmy Savile, reported her to the Metropolitan Police and now Ms Platell faces a police investigation.
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Chloe Madeley
A model and “television personality”. The daughter of the former daytime duo Richard and Judy, Madeley appeared in a show named Celebrity Quitters in 2010 but has been banned for causing a car crash whilst drunk and photographed allegedly smoking cannabis. Maybe it would indeed be best if she did indeed give up. -
Policing Assange: Where will it end?
The costs of policing Julian Assange’s residency at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London soar to beyond £4.2 million
By the time of the first anniversary of Julian Assange’s arrival at the Ecuadorean Embassy in Hans Crescent on 19th June, the cost of policing his “stay” will have come to the astounding sum of over £4,200,000.
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Jimmy Savile: A man who kept himself very busy
The Metropolitan Police report into the Jimmy Savile scandal is published
We’ve written much about the Jimmy Savile scandal and received countless information about it and Operation Yewtree in general from our readers.
The late Jimmy Savile The majority, we’re glad to report, were shocked and appalled by this monster’s conduct. Though several of Savile’s friends bizarrely wrote protesting his innocence, today’s publication of a report into the matter confirms just what we all sadly thought.
The Metropolitan Police report reveals that Savile abused 214 people, many of them under 10 years old. It is shocking that the BBC and others allowed him to get away with this for so long and we would argue that a few more heads ought to roll.
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Picture of the Week: Drag in luxury
Who would have imagined seeing a Phantom and a Mulsanne drag racing?
In London, people do strange things with supercars. Arabs like His Highness Sheikh Rashid Bin Humaid Al Nuaimi, aged 28, don’t bother to insure their wrapped orange £230,000 Ferrari FF’s and find them impounded by the Metropolitan Police whilst Iraqi playboys race Ferrari 599’s down Sloane Street at 120 mph. Meanwhile, the Qatarai royals plainly don’t understand the concept of parking charges and strangely prefer to leave their £1.2million Koenigsegg CCXR’s to be clamped. The world of the super rich and their chariots is, indeed, nothing other than bemusing.
A Rolls-Royce Phantom and a Bentley Mulsanne drag racing in the 2012 goldRush Rally When, yesterday, Thilo Martin, a director of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Geneva, kindly shared an image on Facebook, I truly saw two luxury cars being used in a manner that I could never have expected. In a photograph taken at the 2012 goldRush Rally readers will see a £253,000 Rolls Royce Phantom and a £225,000 Bentley Mulsanne drag racing.
The Rolls-Royce Phantom 
The Bentley Mulsanne We at The Steeple Times found this strange use of two vehicles that normally are more likely to be found on Rodeo Drive, Park Avenue or Bond Street most amusing and for that reason it had to be our picture of the week.
For more information on the goldRush Rally, go to: http://www.goldrushrally.com
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Charlie Richardson (1934 – 2012)
This father of six and his gang were amongst the most notorious and sadistic criminals in South London in the 1960s. Using scrap metal and slot machine businesses as fronts, they ran fraud, protection rackets and received stolen goods. They were best known for nailing those who displeased them to floor and then made them mop up their own blood. This process was known as “taking a shirt from Charlie,” since afterwards a clean shirt was provided for the victim to return home in. Richardson, however, maintained the torture stories were a myth. In his twilight years, Beckenham based Richardson mellowed and spent his time campaigning on behalf of young offenders.