| Britney Spears' family reunion: Chock full o' crazy
Britney Spears' parents came into town Monday night with plans of staging an intervention to get Britney mental help. Yesterday afternoon, Sam Lufti persuaded Britney to go car-shopping and they brought Lynne Spears along. It didn't go well, according to People: "Lynne and Britney were arguing in the car the whole time. They're both upset and arguing, not having a good time at all," an onlooker tells PEOPLE.
After 15 minutes at the dealership, Britney drove a black Escalade off the lot. "After she came out, she pulled over to the side of the road to argue with her mom more," adds the onlooker. TMZ then reported that Sam was disrupting the family's intervention, so Sam called TMZ's own Harvey Levin to set the record straight. Presumably through grave-pissing: Lutfi said of the family, "They have an agenda.
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10 Bar workers jailed following brutal assault
A Purley man has been jailed for beating a man so hard with a metal pole that it bent. Ralph Daley of Palamos, Church Road, Purley was sentenced to 18 months for violent disorder at the Inner London Crown Court today. The 45-year-old will serve half the sentence in custody and the rest on licence. He was sentenced along with four other men in connection with a brutal assault outside the Fridge Bar, Brixton on November 26 last year. Frederick Mallefroy, 43, of Kingston Road, Ilford, Essex was convicted in his absence of attempted GBH and sentenced to three-and-a-half years. Victor Carl Reid, 41, of Eamon Casey House, Mostyn Road, Brixton was convicted of violent disorder and sentence to two-and-a-half years in prison.
WEST AFRICA: Food prices still climbing, crisis feared
The last time FEWS NET compiled regional information, in November 2007, prices compared to the same month in 2006 were 60 percent higher for millet, 51 percent higher for maize, and 43 percent for sorghum.
Almost all farming in West Africa is rain-fed, meaning farmers experience an intense burst of activity during the June to November rainy season, when they must grow and sell enough food to see them through until the next year.
By June, many of the poorest families in the region have run out of money and food. The period is known as the “hunger gap" or “lean season" and is usually accompanied by quickly accelerating malnutrition rates as families skip meals and in extreme cases rely on wild foods like weeds, leaves and berries and rubbish for sustenance.
For some families, the lean season starts as early as January or February.
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Gomaa and 13 others were arrested on charges of manslaughter, assault and possession of unlicensed firearms. Prosecutor General Maher Abdel Wahed later ordered the 72-year-old Gomaa released on LE 10,000 bail, citing Gomaas deteriorating heath. Sources close to the party earlier claimed Gomaa had suffered a heart attack while in detention. .
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