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Eager fashionistas got physical outside a Manhattan store as they vied for a spot in line to buy a hotly anticipated clothing collaboration between Burberry and Supreme, according to videos and witnesses. One video posted early Thursday outside the Dover Street Market at 30th Street and Lexington Avenue shows tensions flaring among those in line waiting to snag the latest pricy wares from the British fashion brand and popular New York street wear label. “I’m still standing right here,” one man yelled at another in line, the footage shows. A second clip showed several men scrapping violently against a door...

<p>The 16-year-old star of Channel 4 reality TV show Big Fat Gypsy Weddings today married the boy who 'grabbed' her in a disco last year.</p> <p>Cheyenne Pidgley of Hersham, Surrey, wed 18-year-old fellow Traveller John McFadyen in a ceremony held at St Peter's church this afternoon, with 200 family and friends in attendance.</p>

Jobless single mum Janis, 48, said she was delighted because the council will now have to give her a bigger house.

LONDON - Thousands of celebrating Britons gathered outside Peckham Council House Abbey to toss rice and empty vodka bottles this afternoon, following the gala royal wedding of HRH Tiffany Skinner, Chavesse of Alcester, and Wayne MacDuffie, Grand Ned of Glasgow. Continued

"'Becoming a grandmother at 29 is my worst nightmare' says mum after discovering her 14-year-old daughter is pregnant" A woman who is set to become Britain's youngest grandmother at 29 said it was 'her worst nightmare' when she discovered her 14-year-old daughter was pregnant. Kelly John said she always hoped Tia would not repeat her mistake and become pregnant at 14. But after getting over the shock, the grandmother-to-be has vowed to do 'everything' to bring up the new baby.

Caught On Camera: Shocking Moment Teenagers Launch Racist Attack On Asian Shopkeeper [Pics & Video in URL] By DAILY MAIL REPORTER 24th October 2009 This is the moment three teenage thugs launched a savage racist attack on a terrified Asian shopkeeper. Twins Luke and Justin Lovedale and Nicholas Gardener, all 16 at the time, beat up four shop workers in a series of assaults while screaming abuse. CCTV footage shows the yobs wrestling one shopkeeper to the floor before stamping on him as they shouted 'f****** Paki' while a terrified female shopkeeper desperately tries to fend off them off.

Underage father Alfie Patten is the victim of a scam to make as much money as possible out of media deals, it has been claimed. Chantelle Stedman was told by her mother to say that 13-year-old Alfie was the baby's father so that they could cash in on their incredible story, according to a close friend of Chantelle's parents. Clive Sim, 39, claims that the schoolgirl was ordered to keep quiet about sleeping with other boys so that the 'teenage dad' story could be sold to newspapers for thousands of pounds. Mr Sim,who has known Chantelle's parents for years, said:...

Pub landlord charged with GBH after 'collaring' drunk teen smashing his window When someone smashed a window at his pub, Peter Lucia-Hennis bravely rushed outside to confront the culprit. Faced with a drunken teenage lout, he confiscated the boy's bottle of vodka before giving him a piece of his mind. Yet when police arrived, he was effectively punished by being told to shut his business down for the night to 'defuse the situation'. Worse was to come when the 60-year-old was plunged into a five-month nightmare after the 17-year-old's mother showed police a photo of her son with two black...

Officials: Boys Tried To Hold Up Police Station Police Claim Duo Remarked, 'We'll Be Famous Now'   POSTED: 3:53 pm EDT March 13, 2008 UPDATED: 4:13 pm EDT March 13, 2008  PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Two boys were arrested after they attempted to rob a Port St. Lucie police station and said, "We'll be famous now," according to authorities. Port St. Lucie police said the two boys -- ages 12 and 14 -- walked into the lobby of a regional station on Wednesday afternoon and demanded money from an aide behind the glass enclosure. Police said the 12-year-old...

AVID Cameron has called for a revived form of National Service to steer out-of-control youths back on the straight and narrow, in the wake of the murder of Garry Newlove. Compulsory military conscription, which ended in Britain in 1960, gave young people a feeling of identity with their country, Mr Cameron said The Conservative leader said Britain's streets had been "lost" to thugs, as he pointed to the killing of an innocent father of three by a teenage gang. There was a need for "big social, cultural and political change" to tackle the problem of social disorder", he said. While...

Make my day, sir, shoot a hoodie Jeremy Clarkson Almost every day a politician comes onto the news and tells us all that Britain’s town centres are being overrun by teenage gangs who drink vast quantities of cider and then run about all night stabbing passers-by. While the event is videoed on mobile phones for the edification of YouTube viewers. It all sounds frightful, but frankly they could be talking about events on the moons of Jupiter because, happily, I live in Chipping Norton, where a lost kitten is front page news. Of course there are teenagers here, and some...

Jobless and shameless By Nick Britten Last Updated: 1:29am GMT 16/11/2006 An unemployed father of 15 who lives with his wife and mistress is demanding a larger council house after getting both women pregnant at the same time. 'Shameless' Mick Philpott Mick Philpott claims that he cannot look after his women and children properly because they are crammed into a three-bedroom, semi-detached house. The 49-year-old, who has been nicknamed "Shameless Mick" for the way he claims benefits and keeps adding to his brood, is understood to have agreed to a vasectomy earlier this year, but changed his mind. He lives...

Contraceptives are to be more easily available for children under Labour's latest drive to tackle teenage pregnancy and social exclusion, Tony Blair pledged yesterday. The controversial move is part of a campaign that will focus on areas where teenage pregnancy rates are rising. Ministers are understood to be examining ways of making contraceptives more affordable for young people as well as of encouraging boys and young men to use condoms. More details of the Government's plans will be spelt out next week when the Government publishes a new strategy paper on teenage pregnancy. The flurry of activity reflects growing alarm...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Mar. 5, 2006 (AP) Rioting broke out Saturday night at British punk band concert, injuring several people and destroying two police cars, officials said. Some in the crowd of about 1,500 at the "British Invasion 2K6" show pelted police with rocks and bottles, forcing the officers to withdraw, police spokesman Sgt. Rick Lindsey said. Two concertgoers were hospitalized with serious injuries, and two officers suffered minor injuries, he said. The rioting began when police responded to a report of a stabbing at the National Orange Show Events Center concert. When officers arrived, the crowd became agitated and...

LONDON: Marriage is on the rocks in Britain, with the proportion of unmarried people set to exceed that of married people within 25 years as more men and women opt to live together without constraints, according to government statistics published this week. The proportion of married men is expected to fall from 53 percent in 2003 to 42 percent in 2031, while the percentage of married women will decline from 50 percent to 40 per cent, Britain's Office for National Statistics predicted on Thursday. The "Population Trends" report predicted on the other hand that the number of unmarried couples living...

ONE of the son’s of Britain’s top scrounger Margaret Wilson became a dad at FOURTEEN. William got next-door neighbour Angeline Dugdale pregnant when he was 13. The Sun revealed yesterday how mum-of-fifteen Margaret, 41, and her unemployed husband Eric, 34, are raking in a staggering £49,000 a year in handouts. William, now 15, has a nine-month-old daughter Amy. He said: "I want to learn a trade such as plastering or plumbing so I can look after her properly." William splits his time between helping his mum mind her brood in their cramped four-bed council semi and caring for his baby....

SYDNEY, Australia - A movie fan had his nose bitten off outside an Australian cinema in an argument over the quality of the violent new Bruce Willis movie "Sin City," police said. The 19-year-old victim underwent surgery to reattach the tip of his nose following the brawl Sunday night outside a movie theater in Bathurst, 125 miles west of Sydney. Bathurst police Inspector Cameron Lindsay said the victim and his attacker got into a fight over the merits of the film, an adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel about a wicked metropolis filled with tough guys and gorgeous dames. The...

Tuesday, 21 June, 2005, 13:52 GMT 14:52 UK Attack on woman recorded on phone An 81-year-old woman was hit in the face when she was attacked by a "happy slapper", police say. The woman, from Sidcup, Kent, was smacked in the face in front of a group of teenagers in Salisbury, Wiltshire. She was walking to her husband and son after visitng a chemist's when a youth slapped her hard on the cheek and poured a drink over her. A friend of the youth captured the attack on a mobile phone while being watched by girls on a nearby bus....

Sisters pregnant at 12, 14 and 16. So what does their mother do? She blames the school Three sisters have each had children while still at school, the youngest at the age of 12. Jemma, Jade and Natasha Williams, who receive benefits totalling more than £31,000 a year, are raising their babies alone after they became pregnant within three months of each other. The sisters, aged 12, 14 and 16 when they gave birth, live in Derby with their twice-divorced mother, who holds the education system responsible for their plight. "I blame the schools - sex education for young girls...

More than half of British people have no idea why Easter is celebrated, a survey revealed. Just 48 per cent of some 1,000 adults questioned for the Reader's Digest Magazine poll correctly answered the resurrection of Christ. In addition, a massive 92 per cent failed to recognise Karol Wojtyla is better known as Pope John Paul II, according to the survey. People appeared to struggle with religious figureheads, with two-thirds clueless as to the identity of the Archbishop of Cantebury Rowan Williams and 42 per cent unable to name Judas Iscariot as the man who betrayed Jesus. Despite their lack...