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Author: Peter Allen

Author: Peter Allen

Writes for: Daily Mail, Guardian, Telegraph

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Number of articles found: 12


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Bomb scare at Lourdes

Source: Telegraph - Date: 4:14 PM 15th Aug 2010

All had attended masses celebrating the Feast of the Assumption, when the Virgin Mary was said to have risen into Heaven. Some 30,000 worshippers, priests and nuns were evacuated from the Sanctuary of the shrine in the foothills of the Pyrenees in south west . . . .

Dead babies found in France: Mother charged with murdering eight of her newborns

Source: Daily Mail - Date: 12:53 PM 29th Jul 2010

Arrested: Nursing assistant Dominique Cottrez, 45, has been charged with the murder of eight of her own newborn babies. Her husband Pierre-Marie has been freed without charge House of horror: Police stand outside the property in north-east France where the eight bodies were . . . .

France dead babies: Couple arrested after bodies of EIGHT babies found

Source: Daily Mail - Date: 8:06 AM 29th Jul 2010

House of horror: Police stand outside a property in north-east France where the bodies of eight newborn children were found this week. Nursing assistant Dominique Cottrez, 45, is expected to be charged with multiple-manslaughter Sealed off: Eight tiny corpses were found around . . . .

Martin Amis dismisses politics of Britain as an irrelevance

Source: Guardian - Date: 11:05 PM 19th Jun 2010

The novelist Martin Amis yesterday dismissed Britain as a global irrelevance dominated by "touchy, vain, power-hungry male politicians" who are all but irrelevant. Amis, whose best-selling books include Money and London Fields described the dramatic social change which . . . .

'It was a sheer miracle..we must never forget that': Pte George Kay remembers the hell of Dunkirk on the 70th anniversary of the retreat

Source: Daily Mail - Date: 10:30 PM 29th May 2010

70 years ago, Pte George Kay vowed never to return to the hell of Dunkirk. Yesterday he finally broke that pledge British prisoners of war captured at Dunkirk in June 1940 Remembering the fallen: Arthur Taylor gets a helping hand Proud veterans line up during the emotional . . . .

Nicolas Sarkozy asks Obama for Roman Polanski to be spared jail

Source: Daily Mail - Date: 9:41 AM 23rd Apr 2010

House arrest: Roman Polanksi enjoys a sunny lunch with friends in Gstaad, Switzerland last week In Washington: Presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama earlier this month The 2 month he spent in prison was sufficient punishment enough??? What about the girl he abused? . . . .

Frenchman 'chopped his virgin wife's head off because she refused to have children'

Source: Daily Mail - Date: 11:13 PM 8th Mar 2010

Philippe Cousin has confessed to killing his wife of 21 years after she refused to have children with him Sounds to me like the guy lost it, he should have got a divorce or at the very least councilling years ago. - Chris, Derby, UK., 08/3/2010 17:11 Hi -Yogi Bear, humans . . . .

France's hardline anti-burka migration minister denies planning to convert to marry young Muslim girlfriend

Source: Daily Mail - Date: 3:37 PM 10th Feb 2010

Legal challenge: French Immigration Minister Eric Besson is threatening to sue over claims he is about to convert to Islam to marry Yasmine Tordjman. The couple are shown above the France vs Ireland World Cup qualifyer last year Hardline: Mr Besson has called for the Muslim . . . .

Don't shout at the wife: France to introduce new law banning 'psychological violence' in marriages

Source: Daily Mail - Date: 3:40 PM 5th Jan 2010

Partners who resort to 'psychological violence' during arguments could end up with a criminal record under a new French law. (Posed by models) French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said electronic tagging would be used on repeat offenders A child IS a victim of psychological . . . .

French minister who demanded Roman Polanski be freed paid for sex with 'young boys' in Thailand

Source: Daily Mail - Date: 12:44 AM 9th Oct 2009

French President Nicolas Sarkozy was under growing pressure last night after his culture minister insisted paying for sex with young male prostitutes was 'not a serious mistake'. Frederic Mitterrand also astonishingly challenged the French public's morality by asking them: . . . .

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