One Direction band member buys Doncaster

Rather than spend his money on sex, drugs and rock and roll, singer Louis Tomlinson of boy band One Direction has bought English League One side Doncaster Rovers, the club he grew up supporting as a boy. The club announced on Thursday that Tomlinson, who signed for Doncaster on a non-contract basis in 2013 and played for their reserve side earlier this year, would assume ownership with cosmetic surgery magnate John Ryan from Terry Bramall, Dick Watson and David Blunt.

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Inciting a Hooley

Bold visionary or suicidal maniac It’s early 70s Belfast, and there’s Terri Hooley – a man with one glass eye, no money, far too many records and a taste for the drink – deciding, at the height of the horrific violence that came to be euphemistically called “The Troubles”, to open a record store, right in the heart of what was then the most extensively bombed square-mile in Europe. The streets Largely empty, aside from police, soldiers and assorted armed thugs wearing balaclavas.

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