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Cocaine given to trick-or-treating children - perhaps it's the neighbours we should be worrying about
Friday 02 November 2012
Every year the subject of trick-or-treating arises at Halloween, but this year a story far more alarming has been added to the debate.
Chris Brown attends Rihanna's Halloween party dressed as an Islamic terrorist
Friday 02 November 2012
Chris Brown cannot catch a break, can he? First his pop career is derailed for all of two minutes by a domestic violence charge and now his taste in bad-taste Halloween costumes is being questioned by the media. That media!
Trick-or-treat children 'given cocaine' in Oldham
Thursday 01 November 2012
A group of children going house to house trick or treating in Oldham were handed packets of cocaine instead of sweets on Halloween, Greater Manchester Police have said.
Three killed in Madrid Halloween party stampede
Thursday 01 November 2012
Three women have been killed and two injured in a stampede during a large Halloween Night party at an indoor arena in Madrid.
Despite darkness, New Yorker stands up for his neighbourhood in superstorm's aftermath
Thursday 01 November 2012
Before the storm, it would have been a familiar setting here in lower Manhattan: a man behind the counter, a row of lottery tickets above him and a wall of cigarettes behind him.
The Times prints cut-out Jimmy Savile Halloween mask
Wednesday 31 October 2012
Too soon? Yeah, almost definitely. That's never stopped bad taste Halloween costumes before, though.
Halloween is too sexy
Wednesday 31 October 2012
Halloween is getting sexier by the year and Eleanor Barkhorn at the Atlantic is fearful for the kids "Perhaps the most persistent argument that adults make against sexy Halloween is that women in revealing costumes are asking for trouble," she writes.
Halloween traditions: Pumpkins heads and walks with the dead
Wednesday 31 October 2012
As parents carve pumpkins and children reach for the face paint ready to trick or treat, ever wondered where the traditions come from?
Stop knocking Halloween. It’s a chance to crack my teeth on toffee apples
Monday 29 October 2012
Brits buy in to spookiness, so bring on the pumpkins and trick-or-treating.
Halloween boosts consumer spending
Monday 29 October 2012
British consumers are spending more on Halloween merchandise than ever. Waitrose announced yesterday it had seen a hefty rise in sales of its horror-themed goods compared to last year, and across the country it is contending with Valentine's Day to be the biggest consumer event after Christmas and Easter.
What To Do, See & Buy: Wallace Sewell; Mac and Ninny; Knowsley Safari Park; Affordable Art Fair; Vivienne Westwood; APC + Carhartt
Saturday 27 October 2012
Soft touch
Victoria Pendleton to play corpse bridge in Halloween-themed edition of Strictly Come Dancing
Friday 26 October 2012
Victoria Pendleton is to play a corpse bride in this weekend's Halloween-themed edition of Strictly Come Dancing - just months before she is due to tie the knot herself.
Ain't no party like a P-Middy party
Tuesday 23 October 2012
Pippa Middleton's book Celebrate offers inventive tips to hosts everywhere – such as throwing a bonfire do on 5 November. What other gems, sorry, crown jewels does she dish up?*
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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