Adam Johnson to be paid £15 a week to attend sex offender's course in prison

Disgraced footballer Adam Johnson who is set to go to jail for sexual crimes against an underage girl is set to be paid £15 a week to attend sex offender's course while in prison. The 28-year-old, who earned £60,000 a week with Sunderland before he was sacked, will receive up to £15 a week while completing the rehab programme.


Once inside he will be encouraged to confront his crimes in both group and one to one sessions. Johnson is expected to serve his time at HMP Frankland in Durham with other inmates like child killers Ian Huntley and Levi Bellfield but will not qualify for early release unless he can show parole officers he has completed the course and is genuinely sorry.
A Prison Service spokesman said:

“Prisoners who take part in work, education, or offending behaviour programmes receive a minimal amount but only if they participate in purposeful activity.” 

“Offenders are asked to express the impact their actions have had verbally, in written work and in the form of pictures, paintings and collages.”

 Former inmate Jermaine James suggested Johnson may have to pay inmates to protect him:

“He may have to pay money to criminals to protect him. I am not suggesting he is going to do that, but it is a factor for him.”

Check out the World's Largest Aircraft, the size of a stadium

The world's longest aircraft called Airlander 10,  which is as large as a football pitch and as high as six double decker buses, is set to take its first test flight in a few days time. The unique aerodynamic balloon-like shape of the Airlander 10 cost $100 million (£60m) to make and can fly at maximum speed of 92mph for five days straight, it carries around 10-tons of cargo and can land on water. Some people say it has the shape of Reality star, Kim Kardashian's Butt..


Measuring 302ft (92m) in length the new airship is about 60ft longer than the biggest airliners, the Airbus A380 and Boeing 747-8.
The Airlander 10  can also stay floating, unmanned, for three weeks even with bullet holes in it was originally developed from 2009 for the US Army, which abandoned the project.

More photos...

Source: MirrorUK.

Mum and daughter who both 'died' during birth spend first Mother's Day together

A woman, 24 year old Louiser Chapman, who came close to death when her placenta tore from her womb and she lost a litre of blood during a serious haemorrhage that saw her heart and her daughter's heart stop during childbirth is grateful to be alive with her daughter to celebrate their first Mother's day together.

Chapman was rushed for a crash c-section - but during the emergency operation she suffered a bad reaction to the antibiotics and went into anaphylactic shock.

Which caused her heart to stop for seven minutes -thereby causing six days of memory loss - Chatman had to be told every ten minutes that she had given birth to a baby girl.

Chapman said she had a normal pregnancy until when she was 30 weeks pregnant and started feeling an excruciating pain in her stomach while she was taking a bath in October last year. She said she remembers she told her 3 year old son-Charlie to give her the home phone so she could call the Ambulance but then she blacked out.

Her partner, 33 year old mechanic, Oliver Kernahan who was at work fortunately got home when the Ambulance arrived and found Charlie by the door. He said Charlie was a hero and "we're so proud of him."

Chapman was rushed to the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, where a scan revealed her placenta had torn from her womb. She was transferred to Royal Sussex County Hospital for a c-section but had a reaction to an antibiotic, cefuroxime, and doctors desperately fought to resuscitate her.

They put her in an induced coma for ten days and her ten-week premature daughter spent the first days of her life in an incubator.

When Louiser came out of her coma, she was left with a short-term memory - likely due to the trauma - and nurses wrote her a birth diary to record the precious moments she had lost.

Louiser said:

"I really can't remember anything about giving birth. "My partner Oliver and the doctors had to fill me in on everything that happened so everything I know is second hand.

"It was so upsetting - it's so important for new mums to bond with their babies when they're born, and I couldn't do it. "They wrote down when Olivia was born and how much she weighed, as well as who had come to visit me in case I forgot.

"It was lovely as when I woke each morning, I got upset as I had forgotten what happened yesterday. So looking at my diary helped me."

Little Olivia weighed just 3lbs and 2 weeks after she was born,  the family was told she had a hole in her heart but were told that with time, they were confident the hole would close by itself and were released to go home. 

Eight days after they were home, Olivia stopped breathing after suffering cold symptoms. Chapman said when Olivia stopped breathing, she panicked and performed CPR that saved her daughter's life.

Chapman said:

"I had just fed her and then lay her on my chest. I took her upstairs pulled her away from chest and she was blue and floppy," "She wasn't breathing. I panicked, I didn't know what to do. I was in an absolute state.

"At first I passed her to Oliver, but then my training for work kicked in. I'd been taught CPR and I started giving her rescue breaths. Finally she gave out a cry."

She was rushed to East Surrey Hospital where doctors found out that Olivia had caught bronchiolitis and pneumonia which had affected her upper respiratory system.

Chapman added:

"There were doctors all around her, they gave her CPR, two blood transfusions. "It was horrific. When I later saw her in intensive care I thought, 'How is she going to come back from this?' "I didn't think she would survive, there were times when I just couldn't think of the positive."

The family spent last Christmas in hospital and after six weeks on the ward, little Olivia was allowed to go home - but has to use an oxygen tank.

The little fighter has needed lots of treatment, but now four-months-old, she's back home and the pair have an extra special bond.

She's still using the oxygen tank, the family say it's difficult getting used to Olivia using the tank but they are very grateful to have her here. They have to do everything with the oxygen tank attached to her and make sure they never leave it empty.

Chapman said: "There was a point when I really didn't think we'd get get here - we really thought we'd lose Olivia.

Source: UK Mirror

Floyd Mayweather shows off his bling and loads of cash

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Photos: Kendall Jenner and Chris Brown go on 'friendly' dinner date

Kendall Jenner took some time out of her hectic catwalk schedule at the Paris Fashion week to have dinner with one time rumoured love interest Chris Brown and friend Hailey Baldwin at the famous L'Avenue restaurant in Paris. More photos after the cut...

New family photos of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge shared these beautiful family photos from a recent skiing trip in the Alps, south-east France. The photos show the royal family, including 10-month-old Princess Charlotte and Prince George, 2, frolicking in the snow. More photos after the cut...

Photo credit: @kensington Palace

Kamto Accuses Biya of Trying to Infiltrate Party

Maurice Kamto, Chairman of CRM party

 Maurice Kamto, National President of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement, CRM, is accusing Biya’s regime of mounting efforts to destabilize the CRM like they did to other political parties in the 1990s.

In a press release sent to our newsroom, Saturday March 5, Kamto called on militants of his party to be very vigilant and pay no interest to calls for the destabilization of the CRM.

Going by Kamto, the CRM obtained verified information to the effect that some CPDM strategists were bent on putting the CRM in disarray.

“Some officials from the Civil Cabinet and special command of the Head of State have gotten in touch with some members of the National Board of the CRM, asking for their CVs and pretending that the President of the Republic will soon appoint them to important positions,” Kamto disclosed in the release.

He describes the move as “miserable and revolting plan of the ruling party in Cameroon, CPDM, to destabilize our party, and maybe some other political parties of the opposition.”

According to Kamto, the CRM has not entered into any negotiation with the ruling party. In this light, the CRM National President vowed that any member of his party who, on his own, decides to “liaise with the CPDM by accepting an appointment whatsoever will automatically be considered as resigning from the CRM.”
There has been no reaction from the Presidency on the accusations.

Woman loses cancer battle just ten days after marrying partner of 10 years

New Day columnist, 32 year old Mo Akhtar has died from cancer only 10 days after getting married to her partner of 10 years, Farbaz, 40, in St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney, England.
Mo was diagnosed with lung cancer last July after a persistent cough. Her then partner saw an advert encouraging people not to ignore such symptoms and urged her to go to the hosipital. She went and was diagnosed with lung cancer which had already spread to her brain.
The Doctors didn't tell her how long she had to live because she told them she didn't want to know.

She started an emotional diary for publication in The New Day to chart her first days as a newly-wed, and some of the last days of her life with the aim of raising awareness of lung cancer in young people.

Unfortunately, she passed away at home on the same day her first entry was published, last Monday.
Farbaz said:
“She wanted for her thoughts and words to be read in the paper and keeping them going has been a tribute to her.”

Paying tribute, Farbaz said:

"After 10 days of marriage, and 10 years together, cancer has torn us apart.

"So I’ll be signing off Mo’s diary earlier than we’d hoped. Tragically, she couldn’t ­complete it but I’m sure that my brave, beautiful bride has already inspired many of you. She certainly changed my life.

"It was a year ago our nightmare started, with a rasping cough that just wouldn’t go away. I’d seen an NHS advert saying if you have a cough for more than three weeks you should get it checked out. ‘You’ve got to do something about it,’ I told her.

"Then last July we were looking forward to going to Lloret de Mar in Spain, a place we loved so much we dreamt of retiring there but the cough was playing on her mind.

"When a lump appeared in her neck she went straight to A&E and they finally found the ­cancer – a tumour in her lung that had already spread to her brain. Ploughing all her energy into surviving, enduring ­chemotherapy, she pushed for an extra month, week or even just one more day.

"Our wedding in the hospice was planned in just six days. It wasn’t as things were supposed to be. We’d planned to get financially secure, then we’d get married, have kids, and live happily ever after.

"She was distraught she’d never have children but also told me she had no regrets.

"We’ve been so happy. Our special thing was to walk to London’s Tower Bridge. We did it practically every day for 10 years. That path beside the River Thames is where I’ll go to remember her now.

"When Mo and I met, it’s fair to say I had my troubles – but with her holding my hand, I was able to find the right path.

"Just before she died, when the fighter I knew was almost beaten, she said how worried she was about leaving me, how she knew I was still vulnerable.

"‘I want you to carry on as you are,’ she said. I plan to do just that. Mo used to say that, despite the pain she was in, cancer was worse for me. ‘When the time comes, I’ll be gone, but you’ll have to pick up the pieces,’ she’d say. And that’s what I’m doing, as best as I ­possibly can."

Source: UK mirror

Anything Can Happen In America By Reuben Abati

This is really exciting time in America; watching the drama of the 2016 Presidential nomination process from a distance, I find the contests, the debates, the arguments, the hustling and jostling on both sides of the mainstream political aisle, most instructive, and intriguing. The world’s most advanced democracy is proving once again that freedom is a golden ideal and that anyone who seeks to lead it, must undergo a rigorous test of leadership and courage.

So far, the presidential primaries have proven to be a sifting process, and after last Tuesday, better known as Super Tuesday, many of the otherwise promising candidates have dropped out of the race, leaving the field to just a few survivors.

 

But the prospects are clear: Senator Hillary Clinton seems a sure bet on the Democratic side, with Senator Bernie Sanders still trailing behind. The Republicans too may well end up with Donald Trump. The other contenders: Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and John Kasich may not succeed in displacing Trump. And this in itself is a source of anxiety, to both Americans and non-Americans alike. If the race gets down to a Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump scenario, we all have every reason to be anxious. Suppose Trump wins and becomes America’s President?

 

Donald Trump is a snarling insurgent and a nativist. He has said all the worse things that should never be uttered by anyone seeking to lead a responsible and diverse nation. His campaign has been marked by insults, anger, put downs, bully tactics, rants and unapologetic immaturity.  He has not been able to articulate any coherent policy, but he has proved to be very creative with populist histrionics. The list of Trumpisms is so frighteningly long and embarrassing.  He recommends torture, and the killing of families of terrorists. He has been endorsed by white supremacists and he doesn’t quite seem to mind being labeled a racist. He threatens violence and on one occasion, he almost punched a protester in the face. He even got into an altercation with the Pope. He wants to barricade the American South border, and build a wall to shut out Mexico, because according to him, the Mexicans who cross the border into America are “rapists.” And when that wall is built, he insists Mexico must pick up the bill.  

 

He doesn’t want Muslims inside America either, and he has dismissed Africans as unwanted and Nigerians as a problem. He says:

“We need to get the Africans out. Not the blacks, the Africans. Especially the Nigerians. They’re everywhere. I went for a rally in Alaska and met just one African in the entire state. Where was he from? Nigeria! He’s in Alaska taking our jobs. They’re in Houston taking our jobs. Why can’t they stay in their own country? Why? I’ll tell you why. Because they are corrupt. Their Governments are so corrupt, they rob the people blind and bring it all here to spend. And their people run away and come down here and take our jobs! We can’t have that! If I become president, we’ll send them all home. We’ll build a wall at the Atlantic Shore. Then maybe we’ll re-colonize them because obviously they did not learn a damn thing from the British!”

 

This certainly cannot be the temperament of a man who wants to be President.  Indeed, one of the most amazing things that has happened in the on-going process is how a real estate and reality television celebrity, whose best achievement is inheriting wealth, and turning around a family business, more by instinct rather than any special technocratic ability, has ended up, getting close to winning the Presidential nomination of the Republican Party, with the frightening prospect of becoming President of the United States on January 20, 2017.

 

The irony is that everyone underestimated him. The media loved the headlines that he offered with his many offensive remarks. He was regarded in many quarters as a comical distraction, and a bubble that may soon burst. There were pictures of his current wife, looking like a siren, with her drop-dead gorgeous figure, and skimpy dressing that belongs more to Hollywood rather than the White House. When Ted Cruz upstaged him in the Iowa caucuses, there were sighs of relief, but since then The Donald has won every other primary, and on March 1, he won in seven of the 11 states.  He is also likely to do better than his closest rivals in the coming caucuses. Except a miracle happens, Donald Trump will be the Republican flagbearer for the 2016 Presidential election. He has received endorsements from key members of the Republican establishment, something that was thought unlikely. In a recent debate, his fiercest opponents even said they would support anyone that wins the GOP nomination.  It may be too late to “dump Trump.”

 

He did not invent the votes that have put him comfortably in the lead. Republican voters actually gave him the votes.  While voters at party primaries do not represent the general voting population, they are nevertheless saying something about the American mind at this moment. Trump’s message of xenophobia, protectionism and isolationism attracts large followership and excites the conservative crowd. The average American is angry: angry with his circumstances, with the establishment, with the lack of jobs, with the economy, with politicians, with foreigners. Trump shapes all that anger into rhetoric and he offers himself as an alternative. He is not part of the establishment; he is against it.  He calls himself a “common sense conservative” but he is actually a political insurgent. The only time he has said anything that sounded Presidential was after Super Tuesday, when he departed from his usual script.

 

This has been taken as a sign that perhaps Trump will re-brand, and that his style so far has been nothing but populist gimmickry. As President of the United States, he would probably change that style, recruit experts to handle state affairs, and restrain himself.  But can America afford to vote on the basis of that possibility? Can America afford to gamble? Trump is impulsive and non-conventional; there is no guarantee that his Presidency will not trump America and embarrass the party of Abraham Lincoln.  The character of the leader affects nearly everything else.  It will be too much to believe that Donald Trump is merely acting, given his surplus confidence.

 

Mrs. Hillary Clinton is a better choice, but going into a general election, she would have to deal with the division within the Democratic fold. Bernie Sanders, her leading rival, has such a devoted grassroots followership that has divided the Democrats into the pro- and anti-establishment wings. Sanders has mobilized such a fanatical political base within the party and on social media that does not trust Mrs Clinton. She has been branded a friend of Wall Street and the status quo, whereas Sanders and his supporters insist that the best way forward is to change how Washington works, and they do not believe Mrs Clinton can do that.

 

Despite her attempts to move a little to the left in recent times, the insurgents running a “Bernie or Bust” campaign may move to the Trump side during the general elections because they are convinced she is play-acting, just to win the nomination.  Bernie Sanders of Vermont is admired for his progressive, liberal ideas.  But again, just as in Trump’s case, his mostly young supporters are motivated by anger and insecurity. Sanders wants to redistribute wealth, checkmate Wall Street, and revolutionize health care. The young and the angry are excited but those ideas are not properly articulated in policy terms. And in any case, will the American voter be willing to have as President a man who says he is a “socialist?”

 

Mrs Clinton’s big challenge is to play the role of a unifier and take steps to unite the party, after winning the Democratic nomination.  She will definitely need that “Bernie or Bust” crowd. She struck the right chord when she spoke recently about love and unity, quoting the Scriptures. “Love never fails. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” (I Corinthians 13),”  she said.

“These are words to live by, not only for ourselves, but also for our country. I know it sometimes seems a little odd for someone running for president in these days, in this time, to say we need more love and kindness in America. But I’m telling you from the bottom of my heart we do. We do."

“There is no doubt in my mind that America’s best years can be ahead of us. We have got to believe that. We’ve got to work for that. We have to stand with each other. We have to hold each other up, lift each other up, move together into the future that we will make.”

These are wise, consolatory words.  Mrs Clinton has her heart in the right place and has both the experience and the maturity to lead America.  Senator, former Secretary of State, and 42^nd First Lady of the United States, more than 25 years in the limelight has exposed Hillary Rodham Clinton to intense media scrutiny, creating what many consider an image problem. But whatever that is, it can be surmounted.  A Presidential contest between her and Trump will amount to a choice between love and hate, between the sober and the outrageous, between the respectable and the grossly self-contradictory. America needs to encourage love and kindness within its borders and also stand with the rest of the world. The angry American voter who feels under-represented, alienated, jobless and unfulfilled, and who desperately wants to punish the establishment, may be making a comment on mainstream politics, orthodoxy and the performance of the Obama administration. But that anger should not be turned against the rest of the world by putting a xenophobe and closet dictator in the White House.

Democracy is tricky; it sometimes ends up as a parody of itself.  When the people clamour for change, they can vote with their hearts, and prove impervious to plain sight reason, and overlook likely pitfalls.  We can only hope that Donald Trump does not become the symbol of the change that Americans are seeking. That would be sad indeed for the free world.

Rihanna stuns in all-white ensemble at the Lakers game

Rihanna was seen at the Staples Center to watch the game between LA Lakers and the Golden State Warriors in an all white ensemble. She was seen enjoying herself with a gal pal during the game. More photos after the cut...

Is it over between Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna already?

Rob Kardashian who just recently gushed about his gf, Blac Chyna when he wrote:.
"Love this woman right here so f--k y'all with your negative comments," has since deleted all images of Blac Chyna and every other post but one on his page. He deleted everything, followed no one but then put up a photo of a cake and his birth date of March 17th. Blac Chyna also put up a cryptic meme. Guess Rob will be moving into his new home and celebrating his birthday without Chyna. See the posts after the cut...

 

Blac Chyna put up a meme which she has since deleted.

Photos: Man caught trying to rape eight-year-old girl is stripped naked and paraded around town

The man in the photos above was allegedly caught trying to rape an eight-year-old girl and was stripped naked in an attempt to publicly shame him. In the video uploaded on social media the caption read:
"The neighbours of the community have done justice when we apprehended a criminal who was about to rape a little girls of just 8 years, and we handed him over to police who we hope will get justice for the innocent girl."

He was reportedly dragged from the scene of the alleged rape attempt, had his hands tied with a rope behind his back and then paraded through the town. Someone then called the police and the crowd reluctantly handed him over to a policewoman , who removed the rope, handcuffed him and took him away in a patrol car. The crowd kept screaming at the alleged rapist while he was being driven away..

One man shouted: "Next time we will kill you." while another person screamed: "Degenerate! Tie him to the back of the car."




Source: Daily Mail UK