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Marvelous Lambo Miura Film with Crashes and Scantily-Clad Brides [Movies]

March 27th, 2009 by FendyBt2

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French filmmaker Richard Fabrice’s short film “lamborghini” is three minutes of utter magnificence and no, it’s not because of the scantily-clad young lady writhing on a Miura SV’s trunk in a thoroughly European wedding dress.

The reality is it’s got great music, a lovely analog look, prodigious shots of a Lamborghini Miura SV, a guy who changes from a tux into a racing suit and sings in a mumbling baritone while driving—and all this is interspersed with Group B rally footage. Including heavy crashes. And Formula 1 crashes too!

WTF, right? But WTF in a most excellent way.

Gurkhas resume settlement battle

March 27th, 2009 by FendyBt2

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Gurkhas at High Court

The government may be "humiliated" into complying with a timetable to change its immigration policy on Gurkha veterans, a solicitor has said.

Martin Howe, who represents the former soldiers, said since the Home Secretary has failed to come up with a settlement policy, a court may now impose one.

The veterans are returning to the High Court to continue their fight for the right to settle in the UK.

The Home Office indicated the policy would now be published by 24 April.

The court ruled in September that excluding soldiers who retired before 1997 is unlawful.

‘Galvanised by death’

Mr Howe told the BBC that effectively enforcing a judgment against a Secretary of State would be a legal first.

He added that the veterans have shown integrity and patience and were further galvanised by the death on 15 March of a Gurkha refused entry to the UK.

A Home Office spokesman indicated the test cases would now be reviewed by 7 May and it would initially reconsider all the other outstanding cases by the middle of June.

It had originally said it was to review all cases by the end of 2008 but asked for an extra three months to publish a new policy for more than 1,300 Gurkhas.

The veterans were back at the High Court earlier this month to seek an injunction to force the government to take action.

It followed a ruling in September that excluding soldiers who retired before 1997 was unlawful.

There are thought to be more than 300 veterans in the UK waiting for their cases to be decided.

Prominent supporter actress Joanna Lumley – whose father served with the Gurkhas – said it was a "chance to right a great wrong".

She is expected to attend the latest court hearing on Thursday.

Gurkhas have been part of the British Army for almost 200 years and are hand picked from a fiercely-contested recruitment contest in Nepal to win the right to join.

They have seen combat all over the world, with 200,000 fighting in the two world wars.

This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation

US arsonist ’should be executed’

March 19th, 2009 by FendyBt2

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Fires in Banning, California, October 2006

A US jury has recommended the death penalty for a man who murdered five firefighters by lighting several wildfires in California in 2006.

The final decision on whether Raymond Lee Oyler will be executed lies with judges, who will announce their ruling at a hearing scheduled for 5 June.

The 38-year-old was convicted of five counts of murder and 20 of arson at Riverside County Superior Court.

If judges spare him execution, he will spend the rest of his life in jail.

‘An end to misery’

Arguing for the death penalty, prosecutors cited the horrific pain the fire crew suffered and the terror the fires caused.

Prosecutor Michael Hestrin told jurors that Oyler was not a casual arsonist, but instead was someone who had sought the power to end people’s lives.

Outside court, the wife of victims thanked jurors and prosecutors for “putting an end to everybody’s misery”, the Associated Press news agency reported.

“I’m grateful they put Oyler in jail and that he’s there and he can’t do this any more,” said Maria Loutzenhiser, whose husband Mark was killed in the 2006 fires.

‘Not a monster’

But defence lawyers had argued that the deaths were not intentional and Oyler should get life in prison without possibility of parole.

Oyler’s daughter, Heather, said killing people was not in her father’s mind.

“My dad is not this monster they paint him to be,” the 21-year-old said outside court.

Oyler was convicted of setting numerous fires in rural areas of Riverside County in 2006.

The fatal blaze, known as the Esperanza Fire, roared to life in October in valleys and mountains about 90 miles (150km) east of Los Angeles.

The crew of San Bernardino National Forest Engine 57 was overwhelmed after deploying to protect an unoccupied house, and five of them died