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Sep142023 by adminNo Comments

Drill rapper and filmmakers taking ‘grim reality’ of county lines drugs to parliament

Entertainment

It takes just minutes for the scenes to turn grim: a dirty trap house, a drug user injecting scabbed feet, a tiny baby crawling amid the filth.This is Trapping, a new British film starring MOBO-winning drill rapper Abra Cadabra and produced by filmmakers and grime pioneers Femi Oyeniran and Nicky "Slimting" Walker. Later this evening, they take the story to parliament for a discussion about the bleak reality of the UK's county lines problem, where vulnerable adults and children as young as six, according to the Children's Society, are recruited to move and supply drugs.While the portrayal of drug dealing often shown on screen has long drawn criticism for glamourising the lifestyle, the same cannot be said for Trapping. Rather than focusing on the "girls, the money, the cars", as writer and...

Sep182020 by adminNo Comments

China holds military drill as US envoy visits Taiwan

World

China says it is conducting military exercises near the Taiwan Strait to "protect its sovereignty" as a top US official visits Taiwan.The live-fire drills take place as relations between Beijing and Washington sour and the US shores up its support of Taiwan.China regards self-ruled Taiwan as a breakaway province.Keith Krach is the highest-level official from the US State Department to visit the island in decades.On Friday, China's defence ministry spokesman Ren Guoqiang accused the US and Taiwan of "stepping up collusion, frequently causing disturbances", although he did not make any reference to the visit. What's behind the China-Taiwan divide? US angers China with high-profile Taiwan visit He told reporters that "using Taiwan t...

Apr92019 by adminNo Comments

Climate change: European team to drill for ‘oldest ice’ in Antarctica

Science

An ambitious project to retrieve a continuous record of Earth's atmosphere and climate stretching back 1.5 million years is officially "go".A European consortium will head to Antarctica in December to begin the process of drilling deep into the continent's eastern ice sheet.The group's aim is to pull up a frozen core of material almost 3km long.Scientists hope this can lead them to an explanation for why Earth's ice ages flipped in frequency in the deep past.Although it might seem at first glance to be a rather esoteric quest, researchers say it bears down directly on the question of how much the world is likely to warm in the centuries ahead. "Something happened about 900,000 years ago. The ice...

Jan192019 by adminNo Comments

Drill stars avoid jail after breaching ban on performing their music

Entertainment

Two prominent drill artists have been given suspended jail sentences for breaching a gang injunction designed to stop them performing songs which police said incited violence against rivals. Scotland Yard said Skengdo - real name Terrell Doyley - and AM - real name Joshua Malinga - were sentenced to nine months' imprisonment suspended for two years at Croydon County Court after breaching an interim gang injunction.The musicians' manager, TK, said the pair - both aged 21 - were not involved in gang violence but pleaded guilty after a video of one of their performances emerged on the internet without their knowledge.According to Metropolitan Police, the injunction was made against the rappers in August after the court found they were members of a south London gang and were li...

Aug42018 by adminNo Comments

Mars pulls ads from YouTube drill videos

Business

Mars has pulled its advertising from YouTube after one of its brands was shown with a drill rap music video. The move was prompted after an advert for Starburst sweets was put at the start of a video by group Moscow17.One of the group's members, Siddique Kamara, also known as Incognito and SK, was stabbed to death in south London earlier this week. The confectionery company said it was "unacceptable" to see its brand alongside that type of content. A report from the Sun said the advertising was worth around £5m to the video sharing website - but the company would not confirm this, saying it did not plan to provide any detail on its advertising budget. Grime: Dead, dying or back underground? Drill music video stopped by arm...