Author: Esther Addley
Author: Esther Addley Writes for: Guardian News feed: Web links: Author ranking: 257 Number of articles found: 10 |
Family wins £100k for detention ordeal
Source: Guardian - Date: 6:50 PM 29th Jan 2010
A refugee has won a settlement of £100,000 from the Home Office after it admitted falsely imprisoning her and her children at an immigration detention centre. Carmen Quiroga, originally from Bolivia, spent 42 days at Oakington detention centre in Cambridgeshire with her son . . . .
Peter and Iris Robinson confusion provokes surprise - but little sympathy
Source: Guardian - Date: 8:11 PM 11th Jan 2010
The news, when it came, was too late for the last evening edition of the Belfast Telegraph, which had by that stage given up attempting to predict the outcome of one of the most tumultuous days in Northern Irish politics that anyone can remember. "Confusion reigns," read . . . .
Iris Robinson and Kirk McCambley: a strange tale of Belfast's 'odd couple'
Source: Guardian - Date: 10:10 PM 8th Jan 2010
Kirk McCambley: 'I always seen [sic] her coming in and out. Just knew her from an early age, through the butcher’s and through my dad.' Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP In what has developed into a stranger-than-fiction tale that has convulsed Northern Ireland , one of the more . . . .
Hard times – and no Times: What life was like in 1979
Source: Guardian - Date: 12:05 AM 30th Dec 2009
The average house cost £13,650, and inflation was 17%. Sony launched a portable cassette player called a Walkman, marketed in the US at $200, and McDonalds introduced Happy Meals. Mother Theresa won the Nobel peace prize, China ordered its citizens to have no more than one . . . .
Madeleine McCann: Icons of the decade
Source: Guardian - Date: 12:05 AM 22nd Dec 2009
Madeleine McCann: a vibrant three-year-old frozen in time. Photograph: David Moir/Reuters In November, 30 months after their daughter vanished from their holiday apartment, Kate and Gerry McCann released two images of how Madeleine might look now. Her face is a little longer, . . . .
Angelika Kluk and Vicky Hamilton, Peter Tobin's other known victims
Source: Guardian - Date: 2:52 PM 16th Dec 2009
Angelika Kluk, left, and Vicky Hamilton, who were serial killer Peter Tobin's other victims along with Dinah McNicol. Photograph: Police handout/PA Angelika Kluk , a 23-year-old student from Poland, was lodging in a parochial house attached to a Glasgow Catholic church when . . . .
Sex tips from John Bercow, the Speaker of the House of Commons
Source: Guardian - Date: 6:18 PM 4th Dec 2009
John Bercow with hise wife, Sally, who has also confessed to past indiscretions. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA If you want to pull a drunk girl, offer to take her home and name her breasts. To get her to leave after sex, suggest she might be accidentally infected with Aids. . . . .
Unravelling The Wire: Academics dissect social science of cult TV show
Source: Guardian - Date: 7:19 PM 27th Nov 2009
Omar (Michael K Williams)n and Michael (Tristan Wilds) in a scene from the final season of The Wire. Photograph: HBO The session on "Omar: Ethics, Power and Performativity" was about to begin, but Josine Opmeer, sitting at a low table in the lobby of Leeds town hall, had . . . .
Home alone: the house where binge mother left children
Source: Guardian - Date: 4:39 PM 17th Nov 2009
Rebecca Stevenson's kitchen, in the house where she left her four children. Photograph: Cavendish Press An empty carton of milk sits on the worktop next to a Tupperware food container containing only what seems to be discarded wrappers. A dining room chair has been pulled up . . . .
Church of England embraces Aldi-style inclusiveness to bring back worshippers
Source: Guardian - Date: 7:46 PM 21st Sep 2009
The Rt Rev Stephen Cottrell, who argues that Jesus would be as likely to queue at Asda or Aldi as Marks & Spencer. Photograph: Samantha Pearce/PA What does the discount retailer Aldi have in common with a Church of England church? One has packed aisles, a lively tussle . . . .
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