11/05/2008Death in Chelsea: How did Mark Saunders come to die in a shoot-out with police?We seem to have been here before: a young man is shot dead by police, and the next day's papers fall over themselves with lurid headlines accompanied by pictures of armed officers in balaclavas and ballistic vests.
Teen murdered with shard of glass from shop windowA 16-year-old boy was attacked with a glass shard after confronting a youth who had smashed a shop window, becoming the 13th teenager to be murdered in London this year.
Hey nonny no, no, no: Goths and pagans are reinventing morris dancing Just before dawn, by an empty shingle beach, sinister figures move through the gloom. Living shadows, they're dressed all in black, their coats made from long rags, their faces obscured by paint. But their eyes burn brightly as they gather in a circle. If some poor insomniac comes walking the dog now – at 5am on a cold, damp morning – they'll get a massive fright. "Hey-ya!" yell eight men and women as they come together with a loud clash of sticks, and what appears to be a blend of country dancing, martial arts and the mating ritual of raggedy crows. The dance is about sex, there's no mistaking that: one partner stands with legs straddling his stick, holding it upwards from the groin, while the other uses his own stick to bash it about. "It's so much a fertility dance that you'd have to really not know what you were looking at to miss the point," says 47-year-old Laurence Ranger, the squire (a kind of road manager) of Hunters Moon Morris.
Wayne's wheels: why big stars drive small carsSo, what do you do when you're a big star with a big, bulging wallet and a big pack of paps following you all over town? Think small.
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