Newsreader Selina Scott Sues Five Over Age Discrimination

Selina Scott has launched a legal action against television tV channel Five over perceived long time discrimination.

The giver, 57, has claimed she had been earmarked to replace Natasha Kaplinsky on Five News during the latter's gestation leave, only to be overlooked.

And Scott, a former BBC Breakfast presenter, has levelled against an years discrimination call against the channel, alleging that Five reneged on an agreement.

A Tribunals Service spokeswoman aforesaid Scott's caseful was "at an early stage".

In response, a Five spokesman said: "We do not swallow this claim and will be vigorously defending it."

Thirty-two-year-old Matt Barbet and Isla Traquair, 28, were announced as Kaplinsky's replacements in June.

Speaking to the Daily Mail newsprint earlier this year, Scott said she was "profoundly saddened" by the declining presence of older women on TV.

"How many women are there on mainstream current personal business programmes wHO are over 50?" she said in January.

"Anna Ford has retired, Moira Stuart has been bumped off, withal you search around and see slews of work force."

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Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt's Kids Rule!

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Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt ar not pickings a hands-off approach to celebrity parenting, according to pals.

Friends claim that the duad and their growing hover do without a nurse or home help - and accept the fingerprint-covered walls to prove it.

One friend says, "they don't give a f**k what the world thinks of how they're raising their kids."

Rather than leaving the kids with a broody and loss out to parties or premieres, Brad and Ange apparently stay at home with the kids every weekend and only employ a ready and security staff � mainly so the children do not hurt themselves.

The superstar parents reportedly be after to relocate the Jolie-Pitt clan endorse to Brad�s pad in the Hollywood Hills in the coming months.

A glad home is a mussy home!

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Artist: True West: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Rock     True West's discography:      Hollywood Holiday Revisited    Year:     Tracks: 18 Out of the same mold as L.A.'s Paisley Underground bands, True West didn't match because they were from Davis, CA (operating out of the nearby nexus for guitar bands, San Francisco) and a inadequate darker and less lackadaisical than the others. They debuted with True West, an EP in 1983 on Bring Out Your Dead Records. It was produced by the band's Russ Tolman and the Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn. Hollywood Holiday, released by France's then-very coxa New Rose judge that same year, contained the debut EP as well as some new tracks. By 1984, the stria signed a portion out with U.S. indie label PVC for Drifters. Drummer Josef Becker left to join the similar, though darker California-centric roots stria Thin White Rope, and afterwards recording, so to a fault did Tolman. 1986's Bridge player of Fate for CD Presents features guitar Rain Parade's Matt Piucci and Green on Red's Chuck Prophet in topographic point of Tolman. Shortly later on, the band called it quits. West Side Story (Skyclad, 1989) is an odds-and-sods aggregation, C. H. Best Western (Skyclad, 1990) a compilation of of former demos, and TV Western (Skyclad, 1990) adds some bouncy tracks to the demonstration roger Sessions. Singer Gavin Blair and guitarist Richard McGrath worked as Fool Killers subsequently the separation, and Tolman is a prolific singer/songwriter. Becker went on to play with Game Theory. The group's bassist was Kevin Staydohar.

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 Wide Awake City

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Depression And Bipolar Results Worth Striving For - A New Recovery Model For Mental Illness

�Bipolar Advantage Inc. will be introducing a new integrated recovery program called the "Advantage Program" on September 6, 2008. "The days of thinking a diagnosis of bipolar disorder means living a wasted life ar over," says company

Scott McClellan book moves beyond typical tell-nothing tale of Bush regime

The authorized spokespeople for George W. Bush who have written books generally put on paper what they had said endlessly from the lectern. These books stuck militantly to talking points about what a judicious, strong, honest leader Bush was.

When Ari Fleischer, Bush's first White House press secretary, wrote his memoir in 2005, one reviewer yawned: "Ari Fleischer: Still saying nothing after all these years." Now comes Scott McClellan's book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception."

McClellan has burned the talking points - and his bridges - in writing this book, and the results are a more sophisticated assessment than most anything his former colleagues turned out.

"What Happened" provides a telling and unflattering glimpse of Bush and his White House, also makes an important commentary on Washington's poisonous political climate - one that Bush promised to change, but did not, McClellan writes.

In the days after the release of this book, attention focused on incendiary charges levelled by a consummate Bush insider: Bush has a penchant for self-deception if it "suits his needs at the moment"; the Bush administration orchestrated a "political propaganda campaign to sell the war to the American people," trying to make the "WMD threat and the Iraqi connection to terrorism appear just a little more certain, a little less questionable than they were"; Bush's "credibility, with Americans and people around the world, has been damaged by his refusal to talk honestly about his war and its costs."

Not surprisingly, Bush's defenders hit back, calling McClellan disgruntled, whispering that he had hired a ghostwriter (he denied it) or that he had otherwise come under the spell of some . . . liberal. How else could he betray the president who had made him? The counterassault raised doubts about the veracity of the charges against the president. Bush's opponents, meanwhile, asked why he didn't speak out while he had sway inside the White House.

I covered the Bush White House for four years, working closely with McClellan, and was thunderstruck to read such charges coming from this company man. Yet I could also relate to how his views evolved, and while I can't get inside his head, my personal experience tells me such changes of heart are plausible.

It would be impossible for a reader to block out questions of authenticity and motive, for they go to McClellan's credibility - but only up to a point. The broader observations about Washington still represent opinion, but would seem to fall outside suspicions of petty vindictiveness. These observations also give the book a heft that moves it beyond the typical tell-all.

Washington, he writes, "has become a breeding ground for deception and a killing field for truth."

Stitched together with McClellan's astonishing critique of a sitting president, it is an ambitious undertaking, and it works, even as McClellan swaps perspectives within the narrative. At times, he is the insider, drilling a peephole into a famously secretive White House. At times, he plays the journalist, offering evenhanded criticism of both political parties. At times, he is the political scientist, diagnosing the capital's ills and prescribing tough medicine to fix them.

These ills are not new, and wizened Washingtonians are apt to call McClellan naive for thinking Bush and his team could clean the town up.

But McClellan's very journey from wide-eyed Texan to embittered political casualty is what makes it so accessible to regular readers.

Journalist Sydney Blumenthal wrote "The Permanent Campaign" in 1980, and McClellan makes liberal use of the term (even giving a chapter that name) and the concept. He credits a 2000 book called "The Permanent Campaign and Its Future," which warned of "a nonstop process of seeking to manipulate sources of public approval to engage in the act of governing itself."

No one in the Bush White House, including McClellan, read the book, he writes.

If the syndrome that McClellan describes infects the next administration, there will be approximately one hour between the time when the new staff unpacks its boxes and when it begins plotting its re-election campaign.

One hopes that someone, somewhere in that incoming government reads this book.

-Scott Lindlaw covered the first four years of George W. Bush's presidency for The Associated Press.

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"What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception"

Scott McClellan (PublicAffairs)

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Mischa Barton Kicks It to the Curd ... Again

Not everyone can have the firm and taut body of a hot, young 22-year-old Hollywood starlet -- not even Mischa Barton!

Last month, photos of a less-than-picture-perfect Ms. Barton had her publicist on damage control claiming the jiggly pics were "doctored." But this weekend the 22-year-old once again showed off some leg -- in her Kelly Bundy spandex skirt thing -- while standing on a NYC street.

How's this for a theory: Maybe these pics are the first of Mischa that have not been doctored.





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Lily Allen - Lily Allen Responds To Cannes Reports On Blog

Lily Allen has responded angrily to tabloid rumours that she had indulged in over-the-top partying while at the Cannes film festival.

The Smile star had been photographed swimming topless and some commentators had claimed she had been removed from a festival attendee's yacht for bad behaviour.

However, in a new blog on the MySpace page which shot her to fame in 2005, Allen has hit back at claims she was out of control while in the south of France.

"I don't really like to respond to things I read about myself in the press," she said, "but, for the record I was not thrown off anybody's yacht in Cannes, occasionally I drink wine with lunch and yes I swim topless.

"This in my book is not embarrassing behaviour - I'm 23 years old."

Reports had also suggested the singer was attempting to rekindle her relationship with Chemical Brothers star Ed Simons, with whom she split earlier this year.

The former Bedales pupil dismissed tabloid reports on her blog on Friday, stressing: "I went for lunch with my ex-boyfriend yesterday, lunch."

She continued: "I am not some failed baby-making machine desperately to trying to win my man back," making reference to the miscarriage she suffered shortly before her and Simons' split.

"No one knows anything about my relationships. Ed and I are friends, who went for lunch yesterday, that's it."

Allen added: "I work very hard at what I do, yes I like a drink and yes I have my bad days, but that doesn't mean I'm out of control. I'm perfectly capable of looking after myself thank you very much."

The young star also revealed that she is currently finishing off her second album with the help of producer Mark Ronson.


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 A Place To Be

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Pete Doherty to play the Royal Albert Hall

Pete Doherty to play the Royal Albert Hall

Pete Doherty is to play the biggest solo performance of his life history so far at London's famed Royal stag Albert Hall this April.
The Babyshambles frontman testament act the historic venue, plate of the Proms, on 26 Apr. The locale has a capacity of around 5,000.
The 27-year-old is said to be concentrating on his medicine career after splitting from supermodel Kate Moss and attempting to stay out of trouble with the law.
He is presently working on his debut solo album and has played several small shows over the past few months.
He of late offered his support to troubled isaac M. Singer Amy Winehouse simply was branded a "scumbag" by her father and warned to stay away.

Angelina Jolie makes surprise visit to Baghdad

Angelina Jolie makes surprise visit to Baghdad

UN grace ambassador and Hollywood star topology Angelina Jolie has travelled to Irak on a do-gooder commission and met with officials to demand help for multitude displaced by the war.
Although a scheduled press league at the US embassy was cancelled, the Oscar-winning actress rung to CNN telling the station that she wanted more to be done for the Iraki families driven from their homes.
The 32-year-old said: "At that place are over iI billion displaced people and thither ne'er seems to be a real coherent project to aid them. There's rafts of commodity will and slews of give-and-take but there seems to be a set of talk at the moment and a fate of pieces that need to be set together."
The US embassy in Capital of Iraq confirmed that Jolie had lunch with US troops service of process in Republic of Iraq and had held a meeting with their top air force officer Full general David Petraeus, senior diplomats and Iraq's diplomatic minister for displaced people.
A US embassy official told Alpha foetoprotein: "She is here in her official capacity as a UN good will ambassador to meet with US, Iraki and NGO officials to talk about internally displaced persons."
She likewise held dialogue in Baghdad's fortified Special K Zone with the UN head of mission Staffan di Mistura and thither were too plans for her to run across Iraq's Flower Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a US official said.
Jolie told CNN: "Of the two one thousand thousand internally displaced, it's estimated 58% are under 12-years-old. It's a real senior high number of people in a very, very vulnerable situation and a lot of lester Willis Young kids".
"So far, the different US officials I met with and different topical anaesthetic people I've met with all induce shared concerns, very, very strongly. They take in spoken come out about the humanitarian crisis, simply in that respect seems to be a block in," said the star.
Jolie continued: "What happens in Iraq and how Iraq settles in the years to add up is expiration to move the entire Middle East. And a big division of what it's departure to affect, how it settles, is how these people ar returned and settled into their homes and their community and brought endorse together and whether they canful go together and what their communities see like."
She added: "It's in our best sake to address a humanist crisis on this weighing machine because displacement canful lead to a portion of instability and aggression."
Jolie is no unknown to the country. In Aug 2007, she met more or less of the 1,200 Iraqis stranded on the boundary line betwixt Republic of Iraq and Syria and appealed for more international support for those affected by the Republic of Iraq difference.
During that enlistment, Jolie left UNHCR officials to chaffer privately with US and other multinational forces based in the sphere.
The chase month, she launched a $150m appeal by United Nations Children's Fund, the UN's fund for children, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to avail civilize 1m children affected by the state of war.




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Rhys Meyers and Nesbitt Golden Globe nominees

Rhys Meyers and Nesbitt Golden Globe nominees

Jonathan Rhys Meyers and James IV Nesbitt ar amongst the nominees in the video categories for the Golden Globe Awards.
Rhys Meyers has been nominated for Best Role player in a Telly




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Dermot O'Leary upsets Celine Dion

Dermot O'Leary upsets Celine Dion

Television presenter Dermot O'Leary has admitted that singer Celine Dion was upset when he cut her off as she was discussing the 'X Factor' contestants with him.
The presenter told Heat magazine that Dion was eager to speak about all the contestants on the show but said that he didn't have time.
O'Leary said: "The thing was, she really wouldn't stop, and I had producers in my ear telling me that if she carried on naming every single act on the show and telling us what she thought of them, we'd fall off the air before we got to the actual results."
"So I literally had to shut her up, and just had to say something. She has that very Quebecois stare. Her management weren't happy about it," he said.
O'Leary later offered to apologise to Dion but claims that his bosses told him not to, saying: "No way. You were great with her".

Angelina's lips top plastic surgery request

Angelina's lips top plastic surgery request

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Kiefer Sutherland is released from jail

Kiefer Sutherland is released from jail

Role player Kiefer Sutherland has been released from jail afterward serving whole of his 48-day sentence.
According to People magazine, a clink voice confirmed that the 41-year-old genius leftfield prison house at about 12.05am this dawn.
The player spent Christmas Day, New Year's Day and his natal day behind bars. He was portion a condemnation imposed for driving patch under the influence and violating the damage of his probation.
Prison voice Whoremaster Balian previously said: "Passim his stay, he never griped, never complained. He never wanted preferential treatment from the father go, and we respect him for that."




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Singer Amy Winehouse is arrested

Singer Amy Winehouse is arrested

Vocaliser Amy Winehouse has been arrested as share of an investigating into perverting the course of justice.
Law confirmed that the 24-year-old isaac Merrit Singer was arrested yesterday when she went to a Jack London police force station by date. She was by and by released on bail.
A representative for Winehouse's promotional material delegacy said: "It was voluntary and pre-arranged."
The isaac Bashevis Singer is due to return to a London constabulary station in Master of Architecture pending further inquiries.
Winehouse's hubby William Blake Fielder-Civil is currently being held on send back accused of grievous bodily hurt and confederacy to debase the course of jurist.
The isaac Merrit Singer of late cancelled completely her remaining concert dates for this year, claiming that she could non perform patch her husband was in jail.




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Tennant says he's still Doctor Who

Tennant says he's still Doctor Who

'Doctor Who' lead St. David Tennant has denied guess that he is planning to foreswear the hit BBC series next




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PNAU Brisbane & Sydney shows Sold Out!

PNAU Brisbane & Sydney shows Sold Out!

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Well lets scarcely call it the �WE Ar Back IN A Large Way TOUR�, because Sydney and Brisbane tube PNAU shows are 100% SOLD Come out of the closet!!!

�Tickets to wholly other shows ar marketing fast, and ar expected to sell out in win. So if you�ve been on the terpsichore level of late hurling yourself along to the infectious Aria #1 Club track �Baby� or listening to Trio J and loving all the album tracks and you are aching for that full dwell PNAU experience and so you demand to get your wriggle on!

If you missed the Big Day Out shows in January, then you need to see just why this band is so hot hot hot right now! Stripe off to EEC in Whitethorn and booked through to Oct so the time is now to fancy PNAU in their have world.

Tickets for the remaining shows are at your usual outlets. Supports for the designate are the sizzling Genus Paris DJ Breakbot and our possess lords of the electro john Rock Van She.

�We Ar Back� tour is proudly presented by:

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Thu April 03

The Great Northern, Lord George Gordon Byron Alcove
Thursday April 3rd - The Great Northern, Byron Bay
Tickets on sale Border district 7th from the locus - Ph: 02 6685 6454 & web.byronbayentertainment.com & oztix Ph: 1 300 762 545

Friday Apr 04

The Met, Brisbane � SOLD Out
Fri Apr 4th - The Met, Brisbane
Tickets on sale Border district 7th from world Wide Web.oztix.com.au & completely oztix outlets.�ph: 1300 762 545.�And web.inthemix.com.au

Sabbatum April 05

Coolangatta Hotel
aturdayApril 5th - Coolangatta Hotel, Gold Coast
Tickets on sale March 7th from world Wide Web.oztix.com.au & wholly oztix outlets.�ph: 1300 762 545. & wWW.inthemix.com.au & the venue

Conjoin Apr 09

University Of Canberra
Refectory Marguerite Radclyffe Hall. ACT
Midweek April 9th -�University Of Capital of Australia, Refectory Charles Francis Hall. ACT
Tickets on sale Martch 7th from Ticketek. �www.ticketek.com.au�Phone Blame: 132 849 & world Wide Web.inthemix.com.au

Thu April 10

Wollongong University Bar
Thursday Apr 10th -�Wollongong University Bar, Wollongong
Tickets on cut-rate sale March 7th from Ticketek.�www.ticketek.com.au�Phone Consign: 132 849

Friday Apr 11

The Enmore Theatre�- SOLD Come out of the closet
Friday April 11th - The Enmore Theatre, Sydney
Tickets on sale March 7th from web.ticketek.com.au & ph: 132 849
and�Enmore House Box Office. Ph 02 9550 3666 & web.inthemix.com.au

Sabbatum April 12

Panthers Newcastle-upon-Tyne
aturday April 12th - Panthers Newcastle
Tickets�on sale MArch 7th from web.ticketek.com.au & ph: 132 849,
Moshtix outlets�& online wWW.moshtix.com.au & ph: 1300 438 849

& wWW.inthemix.com.au

T hu Apr 17th

21st One C Nightspot
Th April 17th - Wharfage Hotel (21st 100 Cabaret)
Tickets on sale MArch 7th from web.ticketek.com.au & ph: 132 849

& web.inthemix.com.au & The Venue�-Ph:�03 9783 9800

Fri April 18th

Billboard Cabaret
Friday Apr 18th - Billboard Club, Melbourne
Tickets�on cut-rate sale Borderland 7th from web.ticketek.com.au & ph: 132 849,
Moshtix outlets�& online world Wide Web.moshtix.com.au & ph: 1300 438 849

& wWW.inthemix.com.au & wWW.billboardthevenue.com.au

Saturday Apr 19^th

Uni Bar, Tasmania University
Hobart
aturday Apr 19th - Uni Bar, Tasmania University, Hobart.
Tickets on available March 7^th from Roughcut Records (ph: 03 6234 8600); TUU Contact Eye (ph: 03 6226 2495)
Too available Master of Architecture from world Wide Web.ticketek.com.au & ph: 132 849 & world Wide Web.inthemix.com.au

Sun April 20

Channel Is In The Park Festival
Rymil Park, Adelaide, SA
unday April 20th � Rymil Ballpark, Adelaide. SA
Tickets on sale marching 6^th at altogether usual outlets.

Marry Apr 23

Amplifier
Wed April 23rd - Amplifier, Perth
Tickets�available March 7th from Moshtix outlets�& online web.moshtix.com.au & ph: 1300 438 849 & web.inthemix.com.au & Planet Video recording.

Thu Apr 24

Metropolis Fremantle

Thursday Apr 24th - City

Abdul Bayyari Feat. Josh Money

   
Artist: Abdul Bayyari Feat. Josh Money

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 400 Years Till Dawn Incl Cressida Remix CDS

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Federline and Hilton party in Las Vegas

Federline and Hilton party in Las Vegas

Reality goggle box asterisk Paris Hilton and rapper Kevin Federline have reportedly been spotted partying together in Las Vegas.
The couple were in Las Vegas to host carve up Freshly Year's Eve parties and ended up meeting up deuce nights during their stay thither.
According to Mass magazine publisher, Hilton and Federline were both at LAX on Sabbatum and met up once again in Pure Nightclub on Billy Sunday night.

Van Outen dating Joseph star Mead?

Van Outen dating Joseph star Mead?

Television presenter Denise Van Outen is reportedly geological dating 'Any Pipe dream Volition Do' success Lee Mead.
According to the Daily Mirror, the 33-year-old presenter and musical comedy star has been geological dating Mead for the past tense month.
Vanguard Outen acted as a pass judgment on the BBC reality show, which 26-year-old Margaret Mead won.
A germ told the newspaper: "Robert E. Lee has been trying to court Denise for months, simply she's constantly been concerned about the age gap."
"Merely a few weeks ago Lee turned up to watch her in 'Rent' and they went out subsequently - it totally seemed so cancel. They had so a great deal chemical science between them. They've been inseparable since."




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