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		<title>At night Amy Winehouse memorial turns to a darker side</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Worthington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the day mourners arrive from all around the world to pay their respects to Amy Winehouse at the shrine set up outside the house where she died over a week ago.  More bunches of flowers keep appearing along with more bottles of vodka and beer and pictures of the troubled singer. However as darkness [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>During the day mourners arrive from all around the world to pay their respects to Amy Winehouse at the shrine set up outside the house where she died over a week ago.  More bunches of flowers keep appearing along with more bottles of vodka and beer and pictures of the troubled singer.</p>
<p>However as darkness falls the crowd that gathers outside her home, changes, full of booze and probably drugs, mimicking the more destructive side of Amy’s personality. It’s been reported that many people are found stumbling round Camden Square swigging from bottles and singing loudly Amy’s most famous hits.</p>
<p>Unfortunately a lot of the late night drunken visitors are under the impression that Amy would be proud and would appreciate people out of their heads at her shrine, however with all the problem she has had battling her demons I doubt she would.</p>
<p>Its little wonder that the authorities keep an eye on the shrine at, however you do wonder how long this will carry on for before the makeshift shrine is removed and the area goes back to normality?</p>
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		<title>Loss of a great talent &#8211; Amy Winehouse has died aged 27</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The famous Jazz singer, Amy Winehouse repeatedly tried but failed to overcome her addiction to alcohol, particularly vodka, and hard drugs, including cocaine. 27-year old Whinehouse, was found at her North London home by her housemate last Saturday afternoon (23rd July 2011.) The singer was believed to be in an emotional state and had been [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The famous Jazz singer, Amy Winehouse repeatedly tried but failed to overcome her addiction to alcohol, particularly vodka, and hard drugs, including cocaine.</p>
<p>27-year old Whinehouse, was found at her North London home by her housemate last Saturday afternoon (23rd July 2011.)</p>
<p>The singer was believed to be in an emotional state and had been described as ‘devastated’ after splitting up with her on-off boyfriend, film director Reg Traviss. Reg has walked out on the drunken star after a blazing fight after he caught Amy on the phone to her jailed ex-husband, Blake. The star is then thought to gone on a 36-hour whisky, heroin and ecstasy session.</p>
<p>Whinehouse had recently returned from rehabilitation and was said to been clean of drugs for 18 months. It is thought that through stress as well as the powerful demon of addiction that the singer ended up returning to drugs. Just days before the star was found dead, she had been ‘booed’ off of the stage for being “out of tune” at a comeback tour.</p>
<p>Police are now considering the idea that Amy Whinehouse died from an overdose, deliberately. Friends have suggested a number of times that Amy Whinehouse “knew” she was going to become part of the “27 club” (a name given to a group of celebrities which have all died at 27 after struggling to cope with fame.) Amongst this group are music legends Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Brian Jones.</p>
<p>Her body has not yet been released as police are currently performing a post-mortem. Her family will be given the results of the post-mortem examination today, meaning that the soul singer can finally be buried.</p>
<p>Although there are many rumours of Amy dying from a drug over dose, nothing yet has been fully confirmed by the police and no drugs were found inside of her £2.5 million house.</p>
<p>Amy’s mother explains how her daughter’s death still hasn’t “hit her” as it was only the day before Amy died she had seen her mother and told her “I love you, mum.” .&#8217;They are the words I will always treasure,&#8217; she said. I&#8217;m glad I saw her when I did.&#8217;</p>
<p>Sources say the star died alone in bed, there have also been claims Miss Winehouse may have been dead for up to six hours before she was found based on a source telling the press: &#8216;Rigor mortis had set in, indicating she is likely to have been dead for anything up to six hours.&#8217;</p>
<p>A variety of fans and friends have left flowers, messages and photographs outside of her apartment. Twitter has received numerous tweets and the topic ‘Amy Whinehouse’ and ‘RIP’ have been trending on the social networking website over the last couple of days.</p>
<p>Russell Brand was one of Amy’s close friends some of his speech is included below:</p>
<p>When you love someone who suffers from the disease of addiction you await the phone call. There will be a phone call. The sincere hope is that the call will be from the addict themselves, telling you they’ve had enough, that they’re ready to stop, ready to try something new. Of course though, you fear the other call, the sad nocturnal chime from a friend or relative telling you it’s too late, she’s gone.</p>
<p>&#8220;…Addiction is a serious disease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death&#8230;Now Amy Winehouse is dead, like many others whose unnecessary deaths have been retrospectively romanticised, at 27 years old. Whether this tragedy was preventable or not is now irrelevant. It is not preventable today. We have lost a beautiful and talented woman to this disease. Not all addicts have Amy&#8217;s incredible talent. Or Kurt&#8217;s or Jimi&#8217;s or Janis&#8217;s, some people just get the affliction.&#8221;</p>
<p>He concludes: &#8220;…Not all of us know someone with the incredible talent that Amy had but we all know drunks and junkies and they all need help and the help is out there. All they have to do is pick up the phone and make the call. Or not. Either way, there will be a phone call.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>English boy wins French X-Factor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Worthington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Raymond-Barker is a 22 year old English boy From Mitcham, South London. He recently has been crowned winner of the French X-factor on Tuesday. Matthew entered the French television programme after being knocked out of the English version of the show last year, in the second round of boot camp. Matthew was only featured [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Matthew Raymond-Barker is a 22 year old English boy From Mitcham, South London. He recently has been crowned winner of the French X-factor on Tuesday. Matthew entered the French television programme after being knocked out of the English version of the show last year, in the second round of boot camp. Matthew was only featured on screen for a mere 8 seconds. And believe he was cheated of a place later on in the competition as he didn’t have a “sob story.”</p>
<p>Matthew was living in Toulouse practising and learning his French first hand for in degree in French and Spanish. Matthew claims the only reason behind him entering the show is because he thought “it would be good for his French!” Matthew explains how the show has greatly helped as whilst on air he had to talk in French and learn all of the French lyrics.  Matthew admits that he was the only English person to enter the contest and would have probably “stood out.” He also explains that people voted because he is not completely fluent in French and sometimes made mistakes, which the French saw as being “cute.” Throughout the contest, he performed songs by Eminem, Rihanna and Michael Jackson as well as performing in both English and French. </p>
<p>Matthew has enjoyed the whole experience and has come out of it with a record deal with Sony and his new single will be released shortly. During his time, Matthew was mentored by a 34 year old Canadian singer- a good friend of Celine Dion. The English student also got to perform with the likes of Bruno Mars, and his personal idol, Beyonce. </p>
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		<title>Cheryl Cole admitted to hospital with malaria</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was reported last night that 27 year old pop star Cheryl Cole is in hospital after catching malaria whilst on a holiday in Tanzania. Cheryl Cole took a well deserved break from her busy work schedule back in June with her friend, Derek Hough, an American dancer. It is thought however that the disease [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was reported last night that 27 year old pop star Cheryl Cole is in hospital after catching malaria whilst on a holiday in Tanzania. Cheryl Cole took a well deserved break from her busy work schedule back in June with her friend, Derek Hough, an American dancer. It is thought however that the disease was caught through being bitten by an infected mosquito whilst on the trip.</p>
<p>The style icon was originally thought to be suffering from exhaustion after collapsing at a photo shoot promoting her new single in North London on Saturday. This was thought to be due to her punishing work schedule after split with football fanatic Ashley Cole, back in February. Her schedule since the split has included: filming the new L’Oreal advert, completing her ‘Tour Of Europe’, touring with the Black Eyed Peas and recording the new series of the ‘X-Factor.’ A close friend told the press: &#8220;Cheryl hadn&#8217;t been feeling herself for about a week (returning on 22 June). She was feeling tired and listless. In the end, this must have been the beginnings of the virus,&#8221;</p>
<p>It was the next day at her home in Surrey that Cheryl’s state deteriorated and she became dramatically worse. A friend said: “During Sunday afternoon, Cheryl went downhill quickly. She was sweating and shaking and in a bad way.&#8221; She was then sent to hospital where it was confirmed that Cheryl was suffering with malaria.</p>
<p>It has been announced that Cheryl must remain in the private London hospital for several days; however, it may make several weeks for her to fully recover (after already completing a full course of malaria medication.) Under doctor’s orders, all work schedules for the week have been cancelled and further more if she remains unwell. Will Cheryl be well enough to return for the rest of the X-Factor series later on this year? Or will we be faced with a replacement?</p>
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		<title>Young man survives after he impales head on spiked fence in fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A young musician in New York is lucky to be alive today after he not only survived a fall from a third floor balcony in Chelsea, New York, but also being impaled in the head from a spiked metal fence upon landing. 21 year old Nicholas Blossom had to be cut from the fencing with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A young musician in New York is lucky to be alive today after he not only survived a fall from a third floor balcony in Chelsea, New York, but also being impaled in the head from a spiked metal fence upon landing. 21 year old Nicholas Blossom had to be cut from the fencing with an electric saw by rescuers, he was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he is said to be in a stable condition, the musician’s father flew in from California but is too distressed to speak.</p>
<p>It is believed by police that Nick was intoxicated at the time he fell at around 4am on Saturday, whilst attending a party, neighbours called police to report an emotionally disturbed person, however by the time they had arrived Blossom had fallen onto the second-floor balcony of an adjoining apartment building, landing head first on the spiked fence. One bystander, Tiffany Nagel, who was visiting her sister said, &#8220;We heard screaming, and we thought someone was trying to break in, medics brought him through our window. He looked like a little boy. He was screaming, and he stopped talking once they got him. He just went silent.”</p>
<p>Nicholas Blossom had attended the party with his band mate Corey Mullee, the pair are in the rock band Alaska Alaska and had arrived at the rooftop party on their bikes, according to police Blossom was sat alone on a window ledge at 4am screaming that he “hated everybody”.</p>
<p>Doctors have said that Blossom’s prognosis is good despite the severity of his injury, Blossoms mother Emily said, &#8220;He is out of surgery and making some jokes, the doctor tells us that he was very lucky.&#8221;</p>
<p>Picture courtesy of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/isherwoodchris/3096255994/">Chris Isherwood</a></p>
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		<title>Indie drummer dies after elevator shaft fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerry Fuchs a drummer for a host of popular indie-rock bands, died on Sunday after an accident in a freight elevator. Fuchs, 34, had attended a charity fundraiser with friends in Williamsburg New York when the incident occurred. He was with a friend when the elevator at 338 Berry St became stuck just after the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jerry Fuchs a drummer for a host of popular indie-rock bands, died on Sunday after an accident in a freight elevator. Fuchs, 34, had attended a charity fundraiser with friends in Williamsburg New York when the incident occurred. He was with a friend when the elevator at 338 Berry St became stuck just after the 5th floor due to a malfunction.</p>
<p>Both men managed to open the door and attempted to jump out in between a gap. Fuchs friend successfully got across to safety however, on his attempt the drummers clothes became caught and subsequently yanked him back and caused him to fall to his death, shortly after 12.30am.</p>
<p>Friends had raced to the scene upon calls from the drummer exclaiming he and his friend were trapped and found Fuchs in the elevator shaft. Paramedics were called and he was taken to Bellevue Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 3.30 am.</p>
<p>Fuchs had just recently returned from touring with Maserati a psychedelic group, he had also in the past drummed for punk bands LCD Soundsystem Juan MacLean &#038; !!!. This is not the first time !!! have lost a drummer in 2005 Mikel Gius met a tragic end after he was knocked of his bike.</p>
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