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Duchess Kate To Attend BBC's Sports Personality Awards

PA | Posted 16.12.2012 | UK

The Duchess of Cambridge will attend the BBC's Sports Personality award show tonight in her first public engagement since leaving hospital for severe ...

PICTURES: Mass Held For Hoax Call Nurse At Westminster Cathedral

PA | Posted 15.12.2012 | UK

The family of the nurse found dead after being duped by a prank call from two Australian radio DJs described the "unfillable void" left in their lives...

'We Didn't Blame Nurse For Taking Hoax Call'

PA | Posted 14.12.2012 | UK

The nurse who was found dead after being duped by a prank call from two Australian radio DJs was reassured on a number of occasions by senior manageme...

Why Kate Middleton Should be Left to Have Her Baby in Peace‏

Sarah Tetteh | Posted 12.02.2013 | Home
Sarah Tetteh

Kate is Duchess of Cambridge, but is it then a given that she should have to share with the world every spit and cough, medical issue and scan 3D picture with the world?

Stories Before the Royal Birth: Some are Laboured, Some are Interesting and Some are a Pain

Preetam Kaushik | Posted 11.02.2013 | Home
Preetam Kaushik

Medical experts say that an extreme bout of morning sickness usually indicates twins or even triplets! It means the royal stork will have to carry a heavy load. Except for Buckingham Palace the rest of Britain is worrying itself grey or bald over the complications a twin arrival would create.

Nurse Jacintha Saldanha Found Hanged With Three 'Suicide Notes'

PA/ The Huffington Post UK | Posted 13.12.2012 | UK

The nurse who was duped by a prank call from two Australian radio DJs to the hospital treating the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge was found hanging, an...

Hoax Call Nurse Post-Mortem Results To Be Announced

PA | Posted 13.12.2012 | UK

The result of a post-mortem examination on the nurse who apparently killed herself after being duped by two Australian DJ hoax callers will be release...

Morrissey Attacks 'Royal Family's Arrogance' After Hoax Nurse Death

The Huffington Post UK | Huffington Post Reporter | Posted 12.12.2012 | UK

Morrissey has lashed out at the "staggering arrogance" of the British royal family in the wake of the suspected suicide of a nurse who was duped by tw...

The Royals Must Not Let Their Zygote Be Seized by the PR Zeitgeist

Mark Borkowski | Posted 10.02.2013 | Home
Mark Borkowski

Rest assured that this is a very early present for the PR industry. PRs will be peddling their wares and attaching products and brand events onto the media charabang at every opportunity. Sales speak stronger than sentiment, and the baby care PR pixies have been stat-spinning like a tribal dervish overcome by super-strength hallucinogenic cacti.

A Culture That Bred the Fatal Prank

Andrew Telling | Posted 10.02.2013 | UK Entertainment
Andrew Telling

To lay the blame entirely at the feet and Michael Christian and Mel Greig is to overlook a far greater contingent. It's to overlook the fact that the radio culture actively encourages the pushing of boundaries, that it clearly considers the feelings of the victims secondary to global stature and revenue.

2Day FM To Set Up Jacintha Saldanha Memorial Fund

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 11.12.2012 | UK

A fund in memory of nurse Jacintha Saldanha is to be set up by the Australian radio station whose DJs duped her in a hoax call before she apparently t...

Duchess Kate Cancels Appearance At The Hobbit Premier

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 11.12.2012 | UK

The Duchess of Cambridge's pregnancy sickness has forced her to cancel an appearance at Wednesday's UK premiere of The Hobbit. Kate is suffering fr...

'We Miss Her Every Moment Of Every Day'

The Huffington Post UK/PA | Posted 11.12.2012 | UK

The family of a nurse who apparently committed suicide after she was duped by a hoax call made to the hospital treating the Duchess of Cambridge "miss...

The Problem With Reporting Suicide

Scott Bryan | Posted 07.02.2013 | UK
Scott Bryan

Treat suicide sensitively. Give the topic some respect. We don't know why it happened, we won't know why it happened. Suicide is an incredibly personal, horrible, complicated thing. Give her personal family some space.

'She Was Cheating On Me So I Went Onto Her UCAS And Declined All Her Offers'

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 10.12.2012 | UK Universities & Education

This week's round-up of student confessions sees post grads in porn careers, revenge on exes and stealing a pet fish after a one-night stand. We're...

Kate 'Still Sick' As William Cancels Event To Spend Time At Home

PA/ The Huffington Post UK | Posted 10.12.2012 | UK

The Duchess of Cambridge's pregnancy sickness will almost certainly rule her out of attending the UK premiere of The Hobbit, after a reoccurring bout ...

You Cannot Kill a Person With a Phone Call

Marcus Middleton | Posted 08.02.2013 | UK
Marcus Middleton

These two DJs are now also the victims and they are hurting. They look as if they are two tormented souls. They obviously feel as if they have caused this tragic death, this is evident in the interview. Never in my time have I ever seen two people's faces more wracked with guilt or more riddled with remorse.

Australian DJs 'Heartbroken' Over Nurse's Death

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 10.12.2012 | UK

The Australian DJs who posed as the Queen in a prank call to the hospital where Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, was being treated have said they are "...

Let's Not Confuse a Prank Call for Malicious Subterfuge

Hanna Flint | Posted 08.02.2013 | UK
Hanna Flint

I can't deny that Jacintha Saldanha's assumed suicide was a truly tragic and extreme consequence of the radio station's on-air jest but for the hospital to blame the situation entirely on DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian is the most tasteless joke of all.

Hospital Prank DJs 'Want To Speak To Public'

PA/ The Huffington Post UK | Posted 09.12.2012 | UK

The Australian radio station embroiled in the Royal baby hoax scandal has said it is reviewing its broadcasting practices and will help with investiga...

The Week That Was: Sad Tidings We Bring

Carla Buzasi | Posted 07.02.2013 | UK
Carla Buzasi

By the time the Duchess left the King Edward VII Hospital, back to her professional, smiling self, there can't have been a media outlet across the world that hadn't carried the news that she was expecting. Of course as we all now know, sad to say, the story did not end there. Hilarity at a prank call to the hospital by two Australian DJs, turned to horror as news broke towards the end of the week that the nurse who had taken the call had allegedly committed suicide.

London Police Could Interview Kate Hoax DJs

PA/ The Huffington Post UK | Posted 09.12.2012 | UK

Police in London have contacted their Australian counterparts about speaking with the two radio presenters who made a prank phone call which preceded ...

Hospital Attacks Australian Radio Station Over Prank Call Before Nurse's Death

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 08.12.2012 | UK

The King Edward VII Hospital in London has sent a letter to the owners of the Australian radio station 2day FM condemning a prank phone call that prec...

2Day FM Lose Sponsors Over Phone Hoax

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 08.12.2012 | UK

Australian radio station 2Day FM will drop all advertising from its weekend schedule as the fallout from a prank call escalated on Friday, its owner S...

Hoax Call Radio Station Has History Of Controversies

PA | Posted 08.12.2012 | UK

The Australian radio station facing criticism for its hoax call to the hospital treating the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge following the death of a nu...