Ashington playgroup hit by email fraudsters

EMAIL scammers took over Ashington Tiny Tots’ account last week, and the County Times became one of their intended con victims.

Spam email, headed ‘I need your assistance please’ was sent out from the playgroup’s hotmail account just after midday on August 25.

The message appeared to be from playgroup worker Charmaine Richardson, claiming to be in Athens and in desperate need of an emergency loan after being mugged at gunpoint.

Copies of it were sent out to everyone on the playgroup’s email list, including the County Times.

The message contained curious phrases such as: ‘Am in a great sorrow writing you this mail’, ‘I’m presently in Athens, Greece on short program’, and ‘I just need loan of €1,000 Pounds’.

Not surprisingly the appeal for help turned out to be a hoax, and the real Mrs Richardson was safely at home in Washington rather than stranded in Greece.

“I’m definitely not there,” she said, “I’ve never even been there.”Image by Getty Images via @daylife

She said scammers had been targetting her own email of late: “I’ve had a lot of emails recently on my own personal account - I’ve had the African ones asking for bank details; Halifax, Santander and RBS telling me that I need to update my online banking details.”


Read more at http://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/local/ashington_playgroup_hit_by_email_fraudsters_1_3024049

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Demi Lovato to Perform on 'America's Got Talent' Tonight

Demi Lovato will be performing on 'America's Got Talent' tonight! The singer will appear on the elimination episode for the first week of the show's semifinals.

"So excited for #AGT tomorrow! :)," the 19-year-old tweeted on Tuesday. The TV appearance follows Demi's first live performance of her hit single, 'Skyscraper,' at the 2011 Do Something Awards, which aired last week. Demi joins the likes of Maroon 5 and Rebecca Black, who have also performed on the hit competition series.

'America's Got Talent' airs tonight at 9PM on NBC, so make sure to tune in or set your DVRs. Are you excited to see Demi on TV again? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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Zoe Saldana and Milla Jovovich Hollywood's Most Badass Ladies

You really hit the zombie on the head. With four Resident Evil flicks under her skinny supermodel belt, and a fifth in the planning stages, Milla Jovovich certainly fits the description of a female action star.

If four movies is the magic number, then, sure, Saldana is in the same club. But is it a two-person club?

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Probably not.

It's pretty safe to say that Angelina Jolie falls into the action heroine category, Bosnian war weeper projects notwithstanding. Two Lara Croft movies, Salt, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Wanted—heck, throw in Gone in 60 Seconds if you feel like it—and you have a babe who, generally speaking, has kicked enough ass to join those other Ladies Who Punch.

Oh, and Sigourney Weaver?

Yes, thanks to the Alien franchise.

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jennifer Garner both have drop-kicked enough attackers on TV to more than earn their membership. And don't count out fighting femmes on the other side of the sea, lest Michelle Yeoh or Zhang Ziyi pummel you in your sleep.



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Kim Kardashian’s Three Wedding Gowns: All the Details!

 

When Kim Kardashian chose family friend Vera Wang to create her custom couture wedding gowns, she knew things would be picture perfect.
What she didn’t know, however, was which of the three intricate gowns she would choose to wear for her walk down the aisle.

“I truly, up until two days before [the wedding] could not decide which to wear,” the bride admits to PEOPLE.

After seeking advice from friends, family — and of course Wang herself — the choice was clear: Kardashian made her grand entrance in what she calls the “princess look” gown, a ball gown with full tulle skirt, basque waist and hand-pieced Chantilly lace appliqué on bodice and train.

Along with her Lorraine Schwartz headpiece, she wore a cathedral-length veil with hand-pieced Chantilly lace appliqué at the hem and a lightly shirred blusher layer.


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Motown entertainer Nick Ashford dies

Nick Ashford, who with Valerie Simpson, his songwriting partner and later wife, wrote some of Motown's biggest hits, such as "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing," died Monday (Aug. 22, 2011) at a hospital in New York City. Mr. Ashford, 70, had throat cancer and was undergoing treatment. He lived in Manhattan.

One of the primary songwriting teams of Motown, Ashford & Simpson specialized in romantic duets of the most dramatic kind, professing the power of true love and the comforts of sweet talk.

In "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," from 1967, their first of several hits for Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, lovers in close harmony proclaim their determination that "no wind, no rain, no winter's cold, can stop me, Baby," but also make cuter promises:

"If you're ever in trouble, I'll be there on the double." Gaye and Terrell also sang the duo's songs "Your Precious Love," "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" and "You're All I Need to Get By."

Diana Ross sang their "Reach Out and Touch Somebody's Hand," and when she rerecorded "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" in 1970, it became the former Supreme's first No. 1 hit as a solo artist.

Nickolas Ashford was born in Fairfield, S.C., and raised in Willow Run, Mich. He got his musical start at Willow Run Baptist Church, singing and writing songs for the gospel choir. He dropped out of college and moved to New York, where he tried but failed to find success as a dancer.

In 1964, while homeless, Mr. Ashford went to White Rock Baptist Church in Harlem, where he met Simpson, a 17-year-old recent high school graduate who was studying music.

They began writing songs together, selling the first bunch for $64. They married in 1974. In addition to his wife, among the survivors are two daughters, Nicole and Asia; three brothers, Paul, Albert and Frank; and his mother, Alice Ashford.

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Compositor Nick Ashford muere tras lucha contra el cáncer

NUEVA YORK (AP) — Nick Ashford, del legendario dúo de compositores de Motown Ashford & Simpson que estuvo detrás de canciones clásicas y elegantes para Diana Ross y Marvin Gaye, así como temas populares para Chaka Khan murió el lunes, informó su ex representante. Tenía 70 años.
Ashford, quien junto a su esposa Valerie Simpson escribió algunos de los éxitos más grandes del Motown, falleció en un hospitalde Nueva York, dijo la representante Liz Rosenberg, que fuera amiga de Ashford por años. Había sufrido de cáncer de garganta y le habían realizado radiaciones, dijo Rosenberg a The Associated Press.
Aunque Ashford y Simpson lograron gran parte de su éxito en Motown con clásicos como "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" y"Reach Out And Touch Somebody's Hand", interpretadas por Ross, así como "You're All I Need To Get By" de Gaye y Tammi Terrell; también crearon himnos para otrosartistas como "I'm Every Woman" de Khan (que retomó después Whitney Houston). A la vez, gozaron componiendo para ellos mismos, de sus canciones quizá la más famosa es "Solid As A Rock" de 1980.

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Katie Eastman Sudden Celebrity

Katie Eastman, a 22-year-old TV reporter from Des Moines, Iowa, didn't expect to become a national sensation only two months into fledgling career.

But a couple weeks ago, the WIO-TV employee caught the attention of The Colbert Report host Stephen Colbert.

Her station had refused to air an ad from Colbert's recently formed super political action committee, the Colbert SuperPAC.

In the ad, Iowa voters are urged to vote for "Rick Parry" -- the misspelling of Texas Gov. Rick Perry's name is intentional -- and then Colbert is shown mocking the TV station and Eastman, its "intrepid cub reporter" whose stories have included pieces on garage sales.

After the station's refusal to air the ad, Colbert fired back on his Comedy Central show.

"Clearly someone needs to get to the bottom of this corruption!" Colbert said. "Someone on the inside, like intrepid WOI reporter Katie Eastman."
He added: "Katie blew the lid off Garage-Sale-Gate! Clearly, Katie, you're the only one I can trust. Call me."



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Why Megan Fox is removing her tattoo of tragic Marilyn Monroe

Megan Fox has revealed she is removing her tattoo of Marilyn Monroe in a bid to avoid attracting 'negative energy'.

The 25-year-old actress, whose acting career has floundered in recent years, began laser treatment on her forearm inking earlier this year.

She was quizzed about her etching of the iconic blonde bombshell, who died in 1962 at the age of 36, by Italian magazine Amica.

Fox, who was spotted on the set of This is 40 in LA today, explained: 'I'm removing it.

It is a negative character, as she suffered from personality disorders and was bipolar.

Former Transformers star Megan has around nine tattoos - other inkings include; a quote on her shoulder reading 'We will all laugh at gilded butterflies' and a tribal mark on her left wrist.

She also has a tribute to her Passion Play co-star Mickey Rourke, 57.

The tattoo, over the right side of her rib cage, reads: 'Those who danced were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.'

She told MTV.com: 'Mickey is such a beautiful, wonderful human being. He's so genuine and so sweet and so talented. I just love him to death.

'I actually got a tattoo that is sort of in honour of him. It's on my ribs.'

While the Passion Play actors hit it off, the film was not such a success - it flopped in spectacular fashion and went straight to DVD.

It was yet another blow to Megan's acting career, which has nosedived since she parted ways with the successful Transformers franchise.

She no doubt hoping to turn around her fortune with her new Judd Apatow project This Is 40, which also stars Chris O'Dowd and Jason Segal.

It is rumoured to be a spin off film from 2007 hit comedy Knocked Up which starred Seth Rogan and Katherine Heigl.

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