Bloodsuckers and Bloggers

The London Times quoted Daphne Guinness in yesterday's paper calling Victoria Beckham "an ugly pig ... downbeat miserable and awful." Guinness continued (allegedly), "Of course she's going to make money — she's backed by Simon Fuller. I don't have anyone! She annoys the shit out of me." She later took to Twitter to vehemently deny she said these things, accusing the paper of not fact-checking the story, and writer Camilla Long (who she met through the late Isabella Blow) of betraying her trust. "And for the record I not only admire Victoria Beckham but know her and like her. My point was that I do most things alone without a backer," she adds. It would seem strange for Guinness — heiress to the Guinness fortune and owner of a $15 million pad in New York — to so publicly slam someone for having financial support. But is that stranger than the possibility of the Times fabricating the quotes, as Guinness claims? During New York Fashion Week, t...

OVER 40 per cent of mums have been attacked while pushing their children in a pram - in a shocking new crime known as "buggy rage". While 42 per cent of those attacked suffered verbal abuse, over a third have had prams deliberately blocked and one in five have been physically attacked. One in 100 suffered a serious assault - but only 1.2 per cent reported the attack to the police. Unlike most crimes, attacks on tots in prams are mostly to be carried out by OAPs and women. Almost two thirds of mothers quizzed in a study by parenting site Netmums said they were attacked by an elderly person, and 17 per cent suffered at the hands of another mum. Under a quarter of abuse came from teens and just 15 per cent from groups of people. Incidents were most common in shops, followed by the pavement, buses, restaurants and trains.

The Reverend Brian Shipsides and the Reverend Elwon John are alleged to have organised approximately 200 fake marriages at the All Saints Church in Forest Gate, east London. The pair are accused of arranging the marriages, mostly between EU residents and Africans, to circumvent immigration laws. The Rev Shipsides, who appears in the Guinness Book of World Records for officiating at the wedding of the world's tallest married couple in 2001, was arrested in August last year at his vicarage. The Rev John was arrested at the same time at his home, in Barking. The pair have been charged with conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration. If found guilty they face up to 14 years in prison. They will appear at Stratford Magistrates’ Court on Friday 25 March. Andrew Hadik, the Crown Prosecution Service London reviewing lawyer, said: “Having considered a full file of evidence in this case, I have decided that there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest to prosecute ...