Meet The Cast Of The Geordie Shore: The UK Jersey Shore

'I'm pert, I'm a flirt and I've got double F boobs': Meet Geordie lass Holly the youngest star of UK's answer to Jersey Shore

By Sarah Fitzmaurice

From: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

The hit U.S. reality TV show Jersey Shore has proved so popular that it is now in its fourth series and the binge-drinking, vulgar-mouthed, highly-sexed characters on the show are seemingly as popular as ever.

So it was only a matter of time before the concept was picked up over here and following success of The Only Way Is Essex and the imminent arrival of the Chelsea set to our screens, MTV have looked to the North for their latest reality TV offering.

Pert and a flirt: Holly is the youngest cast member of the latest reality TV show from MTV Geordie Shore

So who are the Geordie Shore cast members who have opted to live together in a bid to bed more randoms and drink their Stateside counterparts under the table?

Meet the youngest member of the crew fake tan addict Holly who introduces herself on camera by grabbing her ample chest and saying: ‘I’m pert, I’m flirt and I’ve got double F boobs.’

Not only does the 18-year-old have a pneumatic chest but her party tricks include downing a shot from her cleavage and according to MTV’s site she: ‘often rounds off the night by getting into a scrap.’

Wrinkle fear: Jay is scared of the ageing process and is rarely seen without his top off

Muscle lover: Charlotte- Letitia, who won't kiss anyone without a six pack and admits: 'Girls call me a slut, ex-boyfriends call me a psycho and my mum calls me an idiot'

And flex: Gary claims to be 'mint' in bed but will he impress the ladies on screen?

THE GEORDIE DICTIONARY

Spice boys – pretty boys

Tash on – snogging

Swilling – throwing a drink over someone

Soound as a poound – good/approved

Purely belter – really good

It’ll be proper mint! – it will be great

ahfancyhor or ahfancyhim – I fancy her / him

Alreet marra? - you alright mate?

Ah wes palatick – I enjoyed myself

And in keeping with the buff bodies seen on Jersey Shore the U.K’s answer to muscled men comes in the form of 25-year-old Jay who says his biggest fear is getting wrinkles, his mantra for life is ‘whoever’ and ‘wherever’.

Next we have 20-year-old Charlotte- Letitia, who won’t kiss anyone without a six pack and admits: ‘Girls call me a slut, ex-boyfriends call me a psycho and my mum calls me an idiot.’

Work-shy James, 20, admits that the hardest graft he has ever done is his hair, and his quest in life is to go out and pull as many girls as possible.

Joining them for the girls is 21-year old ‘tomboy’ Sophie and Vicky,23, who according to the website likes shopping and the gym, which are the only two of her activities which don’t involve alcohol.

And to bump up the testosterone in the house cheeky chap Gary, 23, who claims to be ‘mint’ in bed joins 26-year-old Greg who dresses to impress.

Party people: Work shy James and Vicky love nothing better than a night out on the Toon

Angels of the north: Ladies man Gary and tomboy Sophie are up for anything for a laugh

Plush pad: The eight-strong Geordie gang will live together in a house which boasts modern furniture and plenty of shag-pile rugs

And judging from some pictures inside their new pad don't look to shabby with sneak pics revealing ultra-modern furniture, shag pile rugs and plenty of shiny surfaces to allow the boys to check their refection at all times.

The antics from these ‘angels’ of the North will be shown on MTV from 24 May.

Drone makes first UK 'arrest' as police catch car thief hiding under bushes

By Liz Hull
From: http://www.dailymail.co.uk

It has been nicknamed the flying saucepan and looks an unlikely weapon in the war against crime.

But yesterday it emerged that a suspected car thief had become the first person to be arrested in Britain thanks to the help of this miniature remote-controlled helicopter.
The Air Robot or drone was deployed by Merseyside police after officers lost the alleged offender who had escaped on foot in thick fog. 


Scroll down to see the drone in action

Using the device's on-board camera and thermal-imaging technology, the operator was able to pick up the suspect through his body heat and direct foot patrols to his location.
It led officers to a 16-year-old youth, who was hiding in bushes alongside the Leeds-Liverpool canal, in Litherland, Merseyside. 

The drone, which measures 3ft between the tips of its four carbon fibre rotor blades, uses unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology originally designed for military reconnaissance. 

The battery-powered device can have a range of cameras attached to its main body, including CCTV surveillance or thermal imaging cameras. 

It is designed to hover almost silently above crime scenes and send live footage to officers on the ground, but the unit can also 'perch and stare' from a solid platform, allowing the operator to capture hours of footage from a hidden vantage point. 

The £40,000 aerial surveillance drone, which is near silent and can operate video, night vision, infrared or stills cameras caught its first criminal in Merseyside

Merseyside Police is one of a handful of forces trying out the devices which, at £40,000 each, are far cheaper to use for small-scale operations than a conventional helicopter.
They have been using the drones for two years, mainly to help in search and rescue operations, to execute drug warrants and to crack down on anti-social behaviour.

 

In August, Derbyshire police used a similar drone to monitor protests at the British National Party's Red, White and Blue festival in Condor, Derbyshire. 

However, this is the first time an arrest has been directly linked to the use of the Air Robot. The incident happened at around 4.30pm on January 26 after officers were told about a stolen Renault Clio in Bootle, Merseyside. 

After a pursuit, two suspects abandoned the vehicle and tried to make off on foot.
One of them, a 20-year-old man, was quickly arrested but the other managed to escape into the thick fog and darkness along the canal towpath. Police chiefs decided to draft in the drone, which can reach heights of 500ft and is controlled by an officer up to 1,500ft away.

The drone used its heat-seeking technology to catch the suspected car thief 

Using its thermal imaging equipment the device quickly located its target in bushes beside the canal through his body heat and relayed live pictures to a police van nearby. Foot patrols then went and arrested him. 

Both men who were arrested have since been released on police bail pending further inquiries. 


Chief Inspector Nick Gunatilleke, of Merseyside anti-social behaviour taskforce, said: 'These arrests demonstrate the value of having something like the UAV. 

'The live footage was being viewed by the UAV's operator in the mobile command vehicle and they were able to direct patrols on the ground.' 

The Home Office is now exploring how the craft can be used to give back-up to police, ambulance and fire services. 

Spy drones are considered the future of policing, although critics have voiced concerns that they could be a worrying extension of Big Brother Britain. 

Last month arms manufacturer BAE Systems said it was adapting military-style UAVs for a consortium of government agencies led by Kent police. Documents showed the force hoped to begin using the drones in time for the 2012 Olympics. 

But they also indicated that the drones could eventually be used to spy on the civilian population, by rooting out motorists suspected of antisocial driving, for covert urban surveillance and to monitor 'waste management' for local councils.

Human waste to power city homes

The scheme is thought to be the first of its kind in the UK

Sewage created by residents across Manchester is to be recycled to power about 500 homes in the city.

The £4.3m scheme, thought to be the first of its kind in the UK, is being tried out at waste water treatment plants at Davyhulme in Manchester.

Human waste is converted to biomethane which is pumped into people's homes.

Developed by National Grid and United Utilities, the method has been hailed as the "fuel for the future" because of its low carbon emissions.

Caroline Ashton, United Utilities biofuels manager, said: "Sewage treatment is a 24-hour process so there is an endless supply of biogas.

"It is a very valuable resource and it's completely renewable.

"By harnessing this free energy we can reduce our fuel bills and reduce our carbon footprint."

'Commercial scale'

Biomethane will also be used to power the utilities firm's sludge tankers.

The project has received funding from the government department Defra, through the Waste and Resources Action Programme (Wrap).

Janine Freeman, head of National Grid's Sustainable Gas Group, said the pilot scheme would power about 500 homes.

She added that a plant the size of Davyhulme would be able to provide energy for more than 5,000 properties in the future.

Several plants in Europe are already using the method to power homes and businesses.

Dr Richard Swannell, director of retail and organics at Wrap, said: "The project aims to be the first in the UK to process and inject biomethane into the gas grid on a commercial scale.

"By using biomethane as a fuel for sludge tankers, it could also help our country make more widespread use of renewable energy."

It is hoped the project will be up and running by 2011.

London's magical history uncorked from 'witch bottle'

by Linda Geddes

A rare insight into the folk beliefs of 17th-century Britons has been gleaned from the analysis of a sealed "witch bottle" unearthed in Greenwich, London, in 2004.

Witch bottles were commonly buried to ward off spells during the late 16th and 17th centuries, but it is very rare to find one still sealed.

"So many have been dug up and their contents washed away down the sink," says Alan Massey, a retired chemist formerly at the University of Loughborough, UK, who has examined so-called "magical" artifacts and was asked to analyse the contents of the bottle. "This is the first one that has been opened scientifically."

During the 17th century, British people often blamed witches for any ill health or misfortune they suffered, says Massey. "The idea of the witch bottle was to throw the spell back on the witch," he says. "The urine and the bulb of the bottle represented the waterworks of the witch, and the theory was that the nails and the bent pins would aggravate the witch when she passed water and torment her so badly that she would take the spell back off you."

The salt-glazed jar was discovered 1.5 metres below ground by archaeologists from The Maritime Trust, a Greenwich-based charity that preserves historic sailing vessels. When it was shaken, the bottle splashed and rattled, and an X-ray showed pins and nails stuck in the neck, suggesting that it had been buried upside down.

Further computed tomography scans showed it to be half-filled with liquid, which later analysis showed to be human urine. The bottle also contained bent nails and pins, a nail-pierced leather "heart", fingernail clippings, navel fluff and hair. The presence of iron sulphide in the mixture also suggests that sulphur or brimstone had been added.

"Prior to this point, all we really knew about what was in witch bottles was what we read from documents from the 17th century," says Brian Hoggard, an independent expert on British witchcraft who helped analyse the bottle. These texts suggest "recipes" for filling a witch bottle, but don't tell us what actually went into them.

Sulphur is not mentioned in any recipe Massey has seen, although a previously discovered bottle seemed to contain the remains of some matches, he says. "If you think about where sulphur came from in those days, it spewed out of volcanic fumaroles from the underworld. It would have been the ideal thing to [kill] your witch, if you wished to."

Further analysis of the urine showed that it also contained cotinine, a metabolite of nicotine, suggesting that it came from a smoker, while the nail clippings appear quite manicured, suggesting that a person of some social standing created the bottle.

"It's confirming what 17th-century documents tell us about these bottles, how they were used and how you make them," says Owen Davies, a witchcraft expert at the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield, UK. "The whole rationale for these bottles was sympathetic magic – so you put something intimate to the bewitched person in the bottle and then you put in bent pins and other unpleasant objects which are going to poison and cause great pain to the witch."

Journal reference: British Archaeology

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