The UK’s influential Culture, Media & Sport Committee has written to both the BBC and The Sun over investigations into Huw Edwards and Dan Wootton.
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An academic will lead a fresh investigation into the unsolved case of a teenage girl, according to reports. Charlene Downes went missing in 2003 and, presumed murdered, her body has never been found.
Her case uncovered a disturbing dark side of Blackpool Promenade, where she took to hanging around after being excluded from school. It revealed that predators lurked in the seaside town's arcades and takeaways, exploiting children with offers of burgers, cigarettes, booze - and the promise of affection.
A botched police investigation that followed Charlene's disappearance would uncover stomach-churning claims about her fate. It was alleged that Charlene had been strangled and dismembered, that her killers had joked of having turned her into kebab meat and tiling grout - after she had 'had enough' of being exploited and threatened to go to police.
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She was last seen when she 14, leaving home with £5 pocket money on a November night. As the months passed without a sighting, the search took detectives to Oldham, Denton, and further afield to Wolverhampton - anywhere Charlene had connections.
Two men were charged, one with murder and one with helping to dispose of Charlene's body. A jury failed to reach verdicts following the 2007 trial at Preston Crown Court and a retrial was also dropped because of a flawed investigation. The police watchdog found the investigation was 'handled unprofessionally' and was plagued by a 'catalogue of errors' which undermined the court case.
Now Dr Kirsty Bennett of Leeds Trinity University will head an investigation seeking new evidence, it has been reported. She has reportedly teamed up with Ronay
The UK’s influential Culture, Media & Sport Committee has written to both the BBC and The Sun over investigations into Huw Edwards and Dan Wootton.
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A search warrant as part of a new investigation into the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur was served earlier this week, police in the US state of Nevada have confirmed.The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department carried out a search of a home in Henderson, a suburb of the city where Shakur was killed in a drive-by shooting on 7 Sep 1996. No arrests have ever been made in relation to the killing, with police claiming in the past that their investigations quickly stalled because no witnesses were willing to cooperate.In a new statement, the police said: “LVMPD can confirm a search warrant was served in Henderson, Nevada on 17 Jul 2023, as part of the ongoing Tupac Shakur homicide investigation.
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Orange Is The New Black have claimed that they never received fair compensation from Netflix while appearing in the show.Released in 2013, the series initially followed Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) as she’s sentenced to 15 months in a minimum security women’s prison for transporting a suitcase full of drug money.In a new interview with The New Yorker, the cast of the Emmy-winning series have alleged that they were paid a SAG (Screen Actors Guild) minimum wage of less than $900 (£690) per episode to appear in the show.Among those to appear in the article were Kimiko Glenn, Emma Myles, Beth Dover, Alysia Reiner, Diane Guerrero, Taryn Manning and Lea DeLaria, with Dover saying: “It actually COST me money to be in Season 3 and 4 since I was cast local hire and had to fly myself out, etc,” Dover added.“But I was so excited for the opportunity to be on a show I loved so I took the hit. It’s maddening.”She added: “They’re telling us, ‘Oh, we can’t pay you this much, because we’re pinching pennies’.“But then Netflix is telling their shareholders that they’re making more than they’ve ever made.
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NewJeans have released the music video for ‘New Jeans’, the opening track of their upcoming sophomore mini-album ‘Get Up’.The clip opens with the girl group arguing with each other in a house that draws inspiration from the home of The Powerpuff Girls. NewJeans then suddenly find themselves transformed into animated characters, drawn in the style of the animated superheroes.In addition to the classic hand-drawn style of the original The Powerpuff Girls series, the girl group are also rendered in 3D, polygons, pixel art and more for the video.“New hair, new tee / NewJeans, do you see? / Make it feel like a game / Look at us, we go on and on again / We’ll go on to the end,” they sing on the chorus of ‘New Jeans’.
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