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Hugh Jackman Drops Out of “Cleo,” Co-Starring Catherine Zeta-Jones ...

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Catherine's blog: Randomisation results

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Should baby be risked for sister?

Catherine's parents faced putting her sister at risk to help ease symptoms of her genetic disease.

Families 'devastated' by killings

The families of a couple shot during their honeymoon in Antigua say they are 'absolutely devastated' by their loss.

Honeymoon groom dies in hospital

A newly-wed husband dies a week after he and his wife were shot on honeymoon in the Caribbean.

Honeymoon attack 'link' to death

Police investigate a possible link between the murder of newly-wed Catherine Mullany and the shooting of her husband with a murder in Antigua two months ago.

Antigua calls on British police

Antigua's prime minister urges British police to help solve the shootings of honeymoon couple Catherine and Ben Mullany.

Shot husband feared 'brain dead'

Unconfirmed reports from Antigua say a man shot in a suspected robbery while on honeymoon is unlikely to recover.

Five held over honeymoon killing

Police in Antigua are questioning five people over the murder of a British doctor and the shooting of her husband on honeymoon.

Timelord assistants' prize battle

Catherine Tate and Freema Agyeman will face each other in the favourite female TV star category at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.

'My life with multiple sclerosis'

Catherine Hannah tells her personal story about living with MS.

Injury forces Tate to cancel show

The first public performance of a play starring Catherine Tate was cancelled because the actress suffered an ankle injury.

Theatre too expensive, says Tate

Comic and Doctor Who star Catherine Tate says "exclusive" ticket prices are making London's West End theatre elitist.

Elderly 'vital to rural revival'

As a report says older people could revive rural areas, the BBC's Catherine Marston visits three elderly women in Yorkshire.

Friday 13th fears keep family in

A Londonderry mother's fear of Friday 13th keeps her indoors on that date for ten years.

Catherine Tate 'bovvered' by Bard

Doctor Who star Catherine Tate goes back in time to discuss Shakespeare and comedy at the Hay festival.

Zeta Jones' home film patron role

Catherine Zeta Jones accepts the role of patron of a film festival in Swansea where she grew up.

Husband guilty of roof box murder

A man is found guilty of murdering his wife and hiding her body in a car roof top box in the couple's garden.

Flies were clues to wife's fate

The clues that led to the discovery of the body of a woman who was bludgeoned to death by her husband.

Tate festive show 'not offensive'

Media watchdog Ofcom rejects 42 complaints from viewers about BBC One's Catherine Tate Christmas special.

Who actors launch fourth series

Doctor Who stars David Tennant and Catherine Tate attend the launch of the BBC show's fourth series.

'I was manipulated into marriage'

The BBC's UK specialist correspondent Catherine Marston tells how a teenager girl's holiday to Pakistan became a forced marriage nightmare.

10 Most Famous Counterfeiting Scandals

The crime of counterfeiting is probably as old as money itself, and kings have often dealt very harshly with its perpetrators. The counterfeiting of coins or ‘coining’ used to be dealt with as a form of treason. As a result, gruesome punishments for coining in England have included being hung drawn and quartered and being burnt at the stake. In America, counterfeiting also used to be punishable by death. Bank notes printed by Benjamin Franklin often bore the phrase ‘to counterfeit is death.’ Bearing in mind that counterfeiting requires a great deal of audacity, here are the 10 most famous counterfeiting scandals throughout history, in chronological order.

1 Mary Butterworth was a counterfeiter in colonial America. She started her counterfeiting operation in 1716 and organised it into a cottage industry, sternly overseeing the work of the entire family. Authorities became suspicious of Butterworth when they noticed unexpected changes in the colonial economy and, amidst a flurry of rumours about the family, her husband John purchased an expensive new home.

2 The unfortunate Georgian counterfeiter Catherine Murphy was convicted of coining in 1789 and was the last woman to suffer execution by burning in England. Her co-defendants, including her husband, were executed at the same time by hanging, but as a woman the law provided that she should be burnt at the stake. Burning as a method of execution was abolished the following year.

3 At the start of the American Civil War Samuel C. Upham began marketing patriotic items to support the Union, and novelty items mocking the Confederacy. In February 1862 he acquired a Confederate bank note and quickly started producing novelty counterfeit notes. But cotton smugglers in the south quickly began buying up the bogus bills and flooding the Confederate economy with them. Since his death many of Upham's counterfeit items have become valuable collector's items.

4 Stephen Jory – Often described as a ‘lovable rogue’, is Great Britain's most renowned counterfeiter. Born in Hackney in 1949 and brought up in north London, Jory left his grammar school and entered the criminal fraternity, he said, through his ‘own choice’. Jory started off selling cheap perfume in designer bottles and later established his own illegal printing operation, producing and distributing an estimated five billion pounds in counterfeit money throughout the United Kingdom. His counterfeit notes were so convincing that they fooled UV counterfeit detectors. Jory died on May 5 2006.

5 During World War II, the Nazis forced Jewish artists in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp to forge British pounds and American dollars. The quality of the counterfeiting was very good, but the Germans could not put their plan into action and were forced to dump the bills into a lake.

6 Frank William Abagnale Jr worked under 8 identities during the 1960s, including his first as Pan American Airlines Pilot Frank Williams, in over 5 years, passing over $2.5 million in counterfeit cheques in over 26 countries and all 50 states. He was arrested in France at an Air France ticket counter when an agent recognized his face from a wanted poster. In the movie based on his life, ‘Catch Me if You Can’, Abagnale made a cameo appearance as a French policeman.

7 Anatasios Arnaouti is a criminal from Manchester who led one of the most ambitious forgery operations in history before he and his accomplices were jailed in 2005. The total amount of counterfeit money they produced is unknown as their printing operation had been in production for several years, and was capable of producing tens of thousands of counterfeit notes each day. The extent of the crime was considered so severe that it could have compromised the UK and US economies.

8 In 2004, French police seized fake 10 euro and 20 euro counterfeit bank notes worth a total of around Ђ1.8 million from two laboratories and estimated that 145,000 counterfeit notes had already entered circulation.

9 In 2006, a Pakistani government printing press in the city of Quetta was accused of churning out large quantities of counterfeit Indian bank notes. The Times of India reported this scandal, based on Central Bureau of Intelligence investigation. The money was allegedly used to fund terrorist activities inside India, the recent blasts in Mumbai being funded using this fake currency.

10 Today the finest counterfeit notes are claimed to be US dollar bills produced in North Korea, called ‘Superdollars’ because of their high quality. The US government believes they have been circulating since the late 1980s and that they serve two purposes: as a source of income and to undermine the US economy.

Book Review: Shades Of Darkness – Shades Of Grace By Catherine Johnson

What happens when you take a wealthy Minnesota family running a successful business and inject a truly wicked influence? Potential disaster is the simple answer.

Shades Of Darkness – Shades Of Grace is inspired by a true story, although I am pretty certain that Catherine Johnson would not want to elaborate on the source. If this is based on reality, and I am convinced it is, it goes to show that fact is indeed often stranger than fiction. We do indeed live in a strange and deranged world.

This is Catherine's first adventure into the world of Novel writing, although she is no beginner in the writing world, having worked for many years in the corporate communications world.

Shades Of Darkness is a very fine book, and it explores an all too common theme, marriage, family, divorce, and the fallout that results.

The Pierson's seem an idyllic family, Mom, Dad, and their grown up children Kay, Paul, and Peter have a successful family run Real Estate business. But happiness is often an emotion displayed on the outside, rather than the inside. And when Paul's wife dies unexpectedly the family watches with great concern as Paul retreats into himself.

About a year later, there is a glimmer of hope, Paul meets a new partner, someone who seems to inject the old vibrancy into him. It is with happiness and great expectations that the family heralds the marriage between Paul Pierson and Pamela Schaeffer. But is Pamela the young and vibrant bride, or does she have darker motives? There are cracks in her facade that cause some of the family members to worry. And before long the evidence is overwhelming that Pamela is not what she seems.

Infidelity is a label that she wears with pride, and rather than appear the 'guilty party' in the ensuing divorce proceedings, opts to go on the attack. This is attack with vengeance. No one is safe from her, least of all Paul.

This is a fascinating book, and very cleverly written, it creeps up on you. I have known several people that have lived through acrimonious divorces, and they are never a pretty sight. Written from sister Kay's perspective we get a ringside seat of the drama unfolding. Catherine Johnson has done a fabulous job of capturing the tension and intrigue, and also the fallout that effects not only the named parties, but their family and friends.

I once made the huge error of not completely reading a book before I interviewed an author. My rational was that there was only one chapter left, and I could 'wing it' and read the final chapter later. Of course I asked a question, and the author replied, "Oh I thought I covered that quite well in the final chapter." Did I feel stupid! It is something I have never done again. Shades Of Darkness – Shades Of Grace is one book that keeps its secrets to the very last page. This Scorpion has venom in its tale and tail, and the poison is lethal.

I have to admit that I was really surprised and shocked by the ending.

You can order your own copy of Shades Of Darkness – Shades Of Grace from Amazon, there is also a web site for the book that shares some interesting insights.

(Originally published at Blogger News Network, and reprinted with permission of the author, Simon Barrett).