4 h. ago West London strip club gets a new licence but it took so long it'll only last 5 months

West London strip club gets a new licence but it took so long it'll only last 5 months  MyLondon

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32 h. ago Victoria Beckham quietly cashed in on her music career in 2024 without singing a note

The former Spice Girl earned more than £1.7 million from her music career last year, despite not recording a single new song

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3 d. ago ‘I want to hear harmonica in the strip club!’: the bold ideas and bleak visions of British musician Klein

Drone albums, vampire plays, Charlotte Church duets the Londoner has an inspiringly odd CV. She explains how the disrupted experience of Black daily life fills her workThe ever-viral hip-hop video platform On the Radar has hosted freestyles from some of the biggest artists in the world. Drake, Central Cee and Ice Spice have each graced the channel with their presence, yet throughout its seven-year history, few acts have gone in quite like Klein. This time last year, the south London artist spiralled through a procession of evocative flexes, rasped through Auto-Tune over a mind-expanding loop of pitch-shifted wailing, then slung a black guitar over her shoulder to shred through a lacerating noise solo with a joyous smile.“People were trying to beat me up!” she says, giggling as she reflects on her appearance. “I was just being myself! Some people liked it, some people didn’t, some people hated it so much they would send me emails. For someone to feel that so viscerally as to send me ...

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3 d. ago Was Thomas Skinner's Strictly exit a conspiracy to save BBC bosses 'a headache'? Star's dance partner Amy Dowden complains they missed out on higher

Thomas Skinner's elimination from Strictly Come Dancing has been branded a 'sign of relief' for BBC bosses, after his appearance was embroiled in controversy.

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4 d. ago Taylor Swift's 'The Official Release Party of a Show Girl' debuts at No. 1 with $33 million

Taylor Swift's new film, “The Official Release Party of a Show Girl,” has topped the weekend box office with $33 million in North America

Economics

8 d. ago New York City auditor traded free lap dances for helping strip club chain avoid $8M in taxes: authorities

Indictments against five executives from RCI Hospitality Holdings were announced earlier this month

Culture

1 week ago Drug kingpin arrested while partying at Ibiza nightclub for £20m narcotics ring he ran with glam ex

A DRUG kingpin arrested while partying at an Ibiza nightclub for a £20 million drug ring he ran with his ex-girlfriend has been jailed. The couple from Merseyside plotted to smuggle over 300 kilos of drugs in two lorries in the summer of 2022. Eddie Burton, 23, from Liverpool was jailed for 19 years at...

Events

1 week ago Pakistan vaccinates 9 million girls against cervical cancer despite online backlash

Pakistan's health minister says the country has vaccinated about 9 million adolescent girls against the virus that causes cervical cancer, as part of a continuing national campaign that has overcome early setbacks fueled by skeptics online

Economics

2 w. ago Strictly’s lack of star quality was obvious in opening show’s shambolic group dance but one celeb could still save show

QUICK prediction for this year’s Strictly Come Dancing winner. Dave Arch. He’s got undeniable rhythm and if the band leader can just remain upright, until December, he’s got as much chance of winning as anyone. And probably slightly more than Thomas Skinner. A judgment based largely on Saturday’s chaotic group dance, where 15 couples performed...

Culture

2 w. ago When I was married at 13 I was told refusal would end in my death. Now girls in Iraq as young as nine face the same fate

A new law legitimises violence and entrenches control over the bodies of millions of women and girls like meI was about 13 when my family decided to marry me off to a man of 29. I cried, I resisted. The pain was doubled because even at that age I was already drawn to reading about rights and freedoms. My suffering came from knowing that my rights were being violated, along with my adolescence and childhood.But soon I had to accept the situation after hair was ripped from my head, my face smashed to the ground and threats of being pulled out of school. Any attempt to refuse this groom in front of him or his family, I was told, would end in my death. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Matt Goss, 56, reveals he's engaged to jewellery designer girlfriend Chantal Brown as he shares hopes he'll reconcile with estranged brother Luke

Single since his days as a heart-throb to millions of teenage girls in the 1980s, Matt Goss is finally getting married. The Bros pop singer has proposed to his girlfriend, the jewellery designer Chantal Brown.

Politics

2 w. ago From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home

Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasiesIn 1980, Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, an unrepentant former leader of the Nazi women’s bureau in Berlin from 1934 to 1945, described her former job to historian Claudia Koonz as “influencing women in their daily lives”.To her audience – approximately 4 million girls in the Nazi youth movement, 8 million women in Nazi associations under her jurisdiction, and 1.9 million subscribers to her women’s magazine, Frauen Warte, according to Koonz – Scholtz-Klink promoted what she called “the cradle and the ladle”, or reproductive and household duties as essential to national strength. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago At least 50 asylum seekers are beaten and hurled overboard in mass execution by smugglers who accused them of black magic when engine broke on crossing to Europe

Allegations of mass high seas executions on board the overcrowded vessel emerged at the start of the month after 248 survivors were rescued off the African coast and taken to Gran Canaria.

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3 w. ago Migrant witchcraft torture horror: At least 50 asylum seekers are beaten and hurled overboard in mass execution by smugglers who accused them of black magic when engine broke on crossing to Europe

Allegations of mass high seas executions on board the overcrowded vessel emerged at the start of the month after 248 survivors were rescued off the African coast and taken to Gran Canaria.

Events

3 w. ago Strip club executives accused of bribing tax auditor with lap dances to save millions: ‘The girls were very beautiful and nice’

Prosecutors say a company that owns strip clubs across the country and several of its executives have been charged with bribing a government official to avoid paying more than $8 million in sales taxes to New York City and the state of New York

Economics

3 w. ago The Soup Dragons sponsor Bellshill Athletic as club hope new strip proves huge hit

The West of Scotland Football League club have been backed by the indie rockers

Events

3 w. ago ‘One jab will do the job’: Pakistan begins rollout of HPV vaccine to millions of girls

Despite vaccination hesitancy, the end may be in sight for cervical cancer, which kills 64% of women with the diseaseThe questions come fast and furious: “Why only girls?”, “will it affect her periods?”, “can it cause infertility?”, “is it halal?” Inside the airy sports hall of Khatoon-e-Pakistan government girls’ school, the pupils in their crisp blue and white uniforms whisper among themselves, as their parents listen attentively to the health officials taking the session.While there are some fathers in the chairs laid out for the occasion, the majority are mothers. The groundwork is under way ahead of Pakistan’s first nationwide rollout of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination campaign. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Las Vegas stripper pretended to be Arkansas millionaire’s girlfriend in order to spend his money, lawsuit claims

Melanie Beth Sterling filed a motion to dismiss her ex’s lawsuit last week

Society

3 w. ago How Sophie Anderton became Ireland's answer to royalty: Nineties 'it girl' has put cocaine

Sophie Anderton, the nineties supermodel and it girl whose reputation for enjoying herself put her top of the guestlist for any high-end party, has today embraced a rural life with her husband in Ireland.

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3 w. ago London strip club faces opposition to licence renewal as hundreds object

Public backlash to plans for The Nags Head in Whitechapel Road to renew its sexual entertainment venue licence for another year

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