London, November 12 : Feargal Sharkey, the former the vocalist of pop punk band The Undertones, feels that anti-terror laws are being used to crack down on live concerts.
He says that small venues and new performers have been affected by the 2003 Licensing Act.
Local councils and police go “over the top” in enforcing the Act, he adds.
The Act requires venue owners to fill in a three-page application form and pay the prescribed fee to obtain a licence for a gig.
Those filling in the forms must disclose names, birth dates, addresses, and phone numbers of every performer.
London, Nov 12: The new series of ITV’s ‘I'M A Celebrity’ promises to be a sizzling battle of the WAGs, as sexy babes Carly Zucker, Nicola McLean and Dani Behr are among the 10 stars of the new show.
The series, which kicks off on Nov 16 with 10 new contestants, includes Zucker, fiancee of Chelsea and England’s Joe Cole, 27, Peterborough United striker Tommy Williams’ girlfriend McLean and Behr, one of the original WAGs, having dated Ryan Giggs, 34, and Les Ferdinand, 41.
Nicola insists that she wants to be the ‘Queen of the Jungle’.
Washington, Nov 12 : A new study by researchers from Sweden has revealed that in women, habitual snoring may be an independent cause of excessive daytime sleepiness and daytimefatigue, regardless of sleep apnea occurrences.
For the study, the researchers performed polysomnography on 400 randomly selected women, aged 20 to 70 years.
The apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) was calculated, and women who acknowledged snoring loudly and either disturbingly often or very often were considered habitual snorers.
Sydney - Five Australians who face life in jail if convicted on terrorism offences possessed pamphlets glorifying suicide bombings that would "kill as many of the enemy as possible," a court in Sydney was told Wednesday.
They venerated "martyrdom operations" that would "spill the blood" of their enemies and libraries of material depicting beheadings and other gruesome killings, Crown prosecutor Richard Maidment said.
"These people selected these items because they were intent on pursuing violent jihad themselves, intent on discovering how that be done legitimately within the teachings of the Islamic faith," he said.
Jurors were told that material seized from them extolled suicide bombings.
Bangkok - Bangkok Governor Apirak Kasayodhin on Wednesday announced his resignation after being indicted by the National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC) of wrongdoing in the purchase of fire trucks and boats from Austria more than four years ago.
"I have decided to resign as Governor of Bangkok," Apirak told a press conference at the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority (BMA).
London, Nov 12: The new series of ITV’s ‘I'M A Celebrity’ promises to be a sizzling battle of the WAGs, as sexy babes Carly Zucker, Nicola McLean and Dani Behr are among the 10 stars of the new show.
Bangkok - Bangkok Governor Apirak Kasayodhin on Wednesday announced his resignation after being indicted by the National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC) of wrongdoing in the purchase of fire trucks and boats from Austria more than four years ago.
