Coronation Street actor Bill Roache, cleared of all sex offence charges

Coronation Street bosses today opened the door for actor Bill Roache to return to the soap after he was cleared of sex abuse charges.
Moments after the verdict was announced soap bosses released a statement saying: "We are looking forward to talking to Bill about his return to work."
A spokesman added that producers would look to speak to Mr Roache, who has not appeared on screens for more than a year, 'very soon'.
After leaving Preston Crown Court a free man, Roache, 81, thanked ITV bosses for their loyalty and support, his family and his colleagues as he made a statement outside.
He said: "I've just got one thing to say. In these situations there are no winners and I think we should all be a bit kinder to ourselves. And now if you would excuse me, I would like to get back to work."
Corrie bosses were forced to edit scenes involving Roache in the wake of his shock arrest last year.
Stunned producers on the soap had lined up some explosive storylines for the veteran actor’s character Ken Barlow.
Roache's fellow actors this afternoon expressed their delight at his not guilty verdicts.
His Corrie character Ken is currently in Canada looking after poorly grandson Adam, who had collapsed at work.
Actress Kym Marsh retweeted: "@davidkester67: "@GranadaReports: William Roache found not guilty of all charges  …" #justice"Emmerdale actor Danny Miller Tweeted: "Buzzing for William!"




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“Drug Use Destroyed Our Love”...Bobby Brown Finally Opens Up

R&B singer Bobby Brown has definitely had his ups and downs, including his run-ins with the law over drug possession and use.  But one of the lowest points Bobby describes is when his ex-wife, famed superstar Whitney Houston, was found dead due to an apparent drug overdose. It was drug use, Bobby says, that destroyed their relationship.



“Our relationship was great,” he said. “I had 14 beautiful, beautiful years with that woman.” And it’s not just his revisionist history, he insisted: “I can honestly say that — I loved that woman with — with everything that I am. And I believe she loved me the same way.”
Brown says he never used hard drugs before meeting Houston, and said that she had used drugs before they were involved. “I worried about it when … we first got together until I tried it,” he said. “And when I tried it, for some reason, I have an addictive personality.”
He does have some regrets, wondering, “I could have done something different, you know to — ensure that she had a longer life. But … you have to want it, you know?”
The 2005 single-season of the couple’s reality show “Being Bobby Brown,” which put an uncomfortable spotlight on their relationship and showed Houston’s temper flaring, he says, was a “wake-up, because we were able to see what others were saying about us…And I saw that our drug use had affected our relationship, had affected the love we felt for each other.”
Houston declined to appear on a second season of the show, and the pair separated in 2006, ultimately divorcing the following year. Still, said Brown — who told Lauer he would be getting remarried “soon” — he still has a lot of room in his heart for his late former wife.

“My fiancee knows how I felt about that woman,” Brown said. “My kids know how I feel … how I felt about Whitney. It’s not a secret, you know? I was in love with her deeply.”
Their tragic story is one that is full of lessons for any family dealing with loved ones abusing drugs.

Here are four tips to deal with a loved one who is using drugs:

Educate Yourself – Learning about the disease can help ease the anxiety, social and emotional stress that addiction can place on a family. If you or your loved one had a new cancer diagnosis, you’d likely do as much research as possible, and maybe join a support group. Addiction is no different.

Attend Family Therapy – While some support services are important for making connections with others who may be trying to navigate day-to-day life with addiction in the family, so is seeking professional therapy as a family. Meeting with a therapist as a family can help improve communication among family members.

Maintain Open Communication – Open, constructive communication is important to re-establishing and maintaining a healthy family dynamic, during and after the addicted family member’s treatment. Healthy, open communication includes clear and specific statements.

Take Care of Yourself – Often people who live with a loved one suffering from addiction put the addict’s needs ahead of their own. But caring for yourself first, both emotionally and physically, will not only benefit you but your family as well.  Caring for yourself may include everything from reducing your stress level, getting regular sleep to eating healthy meals. Exercise can help with all three.




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Does Facebook Cause Cheating?

Couples looking to sustain a healthful romantic relationship should avoid Facebook, because spending excessive time on Facebook may cause negative interpersonal relationship outcomes, according to a report in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.

“The results indicate that a high level of Facebook usage is associated with negative relationship outcomes, and that these relationships are indeed mediated by Facebook-related conflict,” the report says, according to GMA News.
Psychologist and relationship expert Dr. Ramani Durvasula told CBS Los Angeles that some people use Facebook to “act out” by engaging in inappropriate relationships and end up cheating with an ex, old friend, or someone they just met casually.
“Now you can find them in a late night search — bang bang, put their name in and there they are,” Durvasula told CBS. “And then so it starts a little bit of liking, a little bit of flirting, and something that seems so harmless to start with escalates like wildfire.”
Facebook played a major role last year in the relationship of Ivan Lewis and Sonya Gore. The couple married in February of 2010, but Lewis claims that he began cheating soon after the wedding, which led to a 10-month separation.

In September 2013, Lewis posted an image of himself holding a handwritten note on his Facebook page, saying, “I Cheated On My Wife!!! (and she was ugly!!!).”

Gore told NewsOne that she ordered Lewis to post the note because he wanted to reconcile with her.
Before making a decision, however, she wanted him to feel the pain and humiliation she felt and forced him to post the note to the social media site.
Additionally, Lewis needed to reach 10,000 likes on Facebook before she would take him back. At last count back in September, he had 15,511 likes!
And in response to a comment that criticized the effort on Sept. 27, 2013, which called the reconciliation method messy, Gore wrote:

“Thanks for your opinion as you can tell i [sic] dont [sic] care what u think one love.”

That’s modern day love on Facebook for you!
The good news is that the social networking site impacts only “relatively newer relationships of three years or less,” the report says. The study could also lead to findings of whether Facebook is a contributor to “the divorce rate, emotional cheating, and physical cheating,” the report says.

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PHOTOS: Indian man sentenced to death for 'decapitating a baby and drinking its blood' in a so-called occult ritual

An Indian man has been sentenced to death after decapitating a baby and drinking the child’s blood in a so-called occult ritual, it was reported today.

Villagers found Lakshmi Kanta Sarkar in a graveyard swallowing the blood as it poured from the severed head of the baby hanging from a tree.

The self-confessed “tantrik” - a follower of Indian spiritual studies going back to 5-9th century AD - had built a makeshift temple.

The incident took place two years ago during an occult ritual in Kalakuri village in Bankura, West Bengal and was captured on film by an Indian tv crew.

But Sarkar has only now been sentenced to death, said the Times of India, after 17 witnesses testified against him at Sulagna Dastidar district court in Bankura.

The villagers beat Sarkar as they screamed “sorcerer”, so badly police had to intervene to avoid a lynching.

But some alleged followers of Tantra, one of the most neglected branches of Indian spiritualism, use it as an excuse to indulge in blood sacrifices and to fulfil their own needs.

The man, highlighted here in an Indian TV news report, was discovered by villagers as he carried out the horrible act
 

Police had to arrest the man as officers feared the group of villagers who found him would kill him
 

Indian news channel at the time of the crime, shows the 'sorcerer' with his face covered up in an orange cloth

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Paul Walker leaves entire $25 million fortune to 15 yr old daughter Meadow, with instructions to make his mother her legal guardian

Paul Walker's daughter is set to inherit his $25 million fortune.

The 40-year-old actor, who perished alongside his friend Roger Rodas on November 30, when the car they were travelling in lost control and crashed in Santa Clarita, California, named his 15-year-old child, Meadow Rain Walker, as the sole beneficiary of his entire estate in his will.

The Fast and the Furious star appointed his father Paul Sr. as the executor, who has filed the will with a probate court, according to TMZ.



Loving father: Paul Walker, who tragically died in November, left his his entire $25 million fortune to his 15-year-old daughter Meadow (R)

He has also petitioned to have the court appoint the late actor's mother, Cheryl Walker, as Meadow's legal guardian and the guardian of the teenager's $25 million fortune, as per his son's instructions in the will.

This is an unusual twist as she currently lives with her mother, Rebecca Soteros, but began living with her famous father full-time shortly before his tragic death.

A court hearing is set to take place later this month.

It was previously revealed that Paul was planning to give up acting to spend more time with Meadow and was thrilled she had moved in with him.

His close pal Ronn Shikari told MailOnline: 'We were really good friends and whenever he was in Hawaii, I would always see him. He's such a great guy and about as anti-Hollywood as you can get.



Instructions: Paul left instructions for his mother to become Meadow's legal guardian but the situation is complicated as the teenager now lives with her mother


'There’s this image of the movie superstar with the swagger and arrogance and being the big man, but Paul was none of that, he wanted to just be a regular guy.

'He was a family man and I know it hurt him to be spending so much time away from Meadow on location; he loved being with his daughter, she was his world. That's why he wanted to retire from acting and talked to his family about it, as he’d achieved everything he wanted to achieve.

'He earned millions from the last Fast and Furious. The big reason he wanted to quit acting was so that he could spend more time with Meadow. It's a shame that it could never happen.'

Friend Vince Krause confirmed that the most important thing in Paul's life was his family and not his acting career.


Tragic: Paul perished alongside his friend Roger Rodas on November 30, when the car they were travelling in lost control and crashed in Santa Clarita, California

'Paul was one of the best people I have ever known,' he added. 'He was as selfless a person as I have met. He loved being a father and it was very clear that his daughter was the most important thing in the world to him.

'Being a father myself, it was one of the topics we discussed most.'

Last year, Walker admitted that he only recently found out just how important his daughter was to his life after she moved from Hawaii to live with him in Santa Barbara.

'She's the best partner I've ever had. I've never had anything like this in my life. I've been so transient; I've been on my own since I was 16,' he said. 'There's a part of me who feels like I'm making up for lost time.'

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