Newsie Saturday (7/18/09)

Hey, kidz! I'm off to wander about New York, as a friend is in town, which means no HBP update today—but I will be back in full force tomorrow, I double-dog promise you!

And so I leave you with this:

• The tosser who played Vincent Crabbe in some earlier Potters got caught with weed in the dumbest way ever.


Vincent Crabbe was always a dick. But Jamie Waylett? I had no idea!


• The UK is still home to loads of labor unions. And their records are being used to blacklist people. Old school, bitches.


• In further working-man news, Newcastle photographer Jimmy Forsyth, 95, died last week. Check out this photo gallery of his work. I bet this is totes what my man John Thornton's descendants would look like!


Working boys in Jimmy Forsyth's Pine St, 1960


• British soap EastEnders incorporates gay Muslim plotline! OMG! (And he's hawt!)


Marc Elliott as Syed Masood in EastEnders


• News presenter Lisa Aziz was recently sacked on allegedly trumped-up charges. The 47-year-old Muslim woman was replaced by a pair of blond-haired, blue-eyed thirty-somethings. Um, shady much?


News presenter Lisa Aziz: victim of racism, sexism, and ageism? Or guilty of expense account fraud?

And that, kidz, is all of the link farminess I have for you aujourd'hui. Magpie out.