Nike, the worldwide famous US sports brand has delivered a comical advert, for all football fans. In the fairly long advert, Rooney is seen at the World Cup wrecking England’s chances. As a result, newspaper articles including ‘Roo-ined’ are advertised. Rooney is then seen getting older in a dirty caravan, sporting a long beard and trampy clothing. The advert then rolls back and shows Rooney sliding in for the ball, and helping England win the World Cup. The advert also includes a ‘Simpson’ designed Cristiano Ronaldo character, who passes the ball through Homer Simpson’s legs, resulting in Homer shouting ‘Ronal-DOH’, with the Portugal winger winking at the camera.
Mean Girl’s actress and pop singer Lindsay Lohan is due to go to court for a hearing. Lohan was arrested due to drinking under the influence of alcohol in 2007, and has finally gone to court. Lohan flew back from the Cannes film festival in France to the US, in order to participate at the hearing. The 23 year old actress managed to avoid arrest last week, when she paid $70,000 bail, and had to wear a SCRAM bracelet, which monitor’s the user’s alcohol consumption. It is alleged that during that time, Lohan enjoyed several glasses of red wine when catching a flight to London, to go back to the US.
Ronan Keating, member of boy band group Boyzone, has a fight on his hands to save hie marriage. The ‘Life is a Rollercoaster’ singer had an affair with backing dancer Francine Cornell, and is desperate to save his marriage with Yvonne. Keating has been married to his wife for twelve years now, and would be distraught if it ended because of the affair. Keating has taken three weeks of music and business to fly back to his family home in Dublin to talk with his wife. The 33 year old singer performed in Switzerland with his band mates for the Sky Dance festival.
Cheryl Cole, a judge on the panel for hit UK music audition show the X-factor, as well as a current member of successful pop group ‘Girls Aloud’, admits that her mother is her biggest role model. The 26 year old admits that her mother, Joan Callaghan, has a positive outlook on life and this is one of the things which helped Cole become a better person. Cole remarks how some women will comment about other women in a harshly critical way, which is somewhat different with Joan, as she sees everybody as being lovely. Cole admits she is a role model herself, and is proud.
Coca Cola has annoyed a forum of private business for its slogan on its Glaceau vitamin drinks with the slogan, ”if you’ve had to use sick days because you’ve actually been sick, then you’re seriously missing out”. The forum was annoyed as many people call in sick for serious reasons, some more so than others, and this slogan undermined those people. Employee absence in the UK costs around £12bn a year, which further indicates that a brand such as Coca Cola, shouldn’t be encouraging people to ‘pull sickies’ in order to buy a bottle of Coca Cola Glaceau vitamin water.
The English Premier League (EPL) this season has been one of the most fascinating and exciting for years, and the funny thing is, is that its not over yet. Chelsea last night beat Bolton Wanderers FC 1-0 at Stamford Bridge, which leaves the London club four points above their current title rivals, Manchester United. With only four games to go, many would assume Chelsea have the title in their hands, but tough games are coming up for all teams, with Chelsea having to face Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool FC whilst Manchester United have to face their local city rivals Manchester City.
Apple, the company behind the iPod, iPhone and other such gadgets, are hoping to release the highly anticipated ‘iPad’, in the middle of May. The iPad is a handheld computer device, different to the iPhone as that device is more to do with applications then general internet and Office work documents. Upon the first day of the iPad’s release In the US, it sold over 300,000 copies. The iPad is believed to cost around £328, and uses Wifi internet connectivity, although it doesn’t used 3G. The only problem so far found with the iPad is that on occasion, the signal will either go to its highest, or lowest signal bar amount.
In 2005, a fourteen your old boy named Joe Lister, drowned whilst on a school trip in Manchester Hole Cave, in the Yorkshire Dales. Now it is understood that North Yorkshire County Council is going to be charged under the ‘Health and Safety Act 2004′, in relation to the young man’s death. Lister was one of eleven pupils on the school trip. The case will be heard in Leeds Crown Court, which will take evidence from how the pupils were forced to swim to safety once water levels rose. Lister lived with his family in Steeton, near Tadcaster, in Yorkshire.
Primark, one of the United Kingdom’s biggest and cheapest retailers, has had to withdraw padded bikini’s for girls under the age of seven. The company went on to apologise for causing offence to its customers, and promised to donate profits to a children’s charity. Conservative party leader David Cameron said it was disgraceful, but was relieved with the withdrawal. The problem being is that children try to fit in with the current trend, whereas adults know what is reasonable for their children to wear, and this is why Primark had to withdraw that particular clothes line. Gordon Brown also backed the withdrawal.
Two men, twenty-one year old Cart Keatley and Jordan Caroll have been jailed for the murder of Michael Eccles, who was walking home from a shop in Staffordshire. Jordan’s father, Edward Caroll was also jailed for three years after trying to cover for his son’s murder by washing the blood stained clothes, as well as blood off the head.
The poor man was simply walking home after purchasing a bottle of wine and a bottle of milk when the savage pair intimidated and later murdered Mr Eccles by repeatedly kicking and thumping him to death. The cowardly pair have been sentenced to a minimum of over ten years in jail.
