Topic: Omar Puente

BritJazz09 is a resounding success

Londoners are summering at home and buying British.. That's how mission control at Ronnie Scott's interprets the resounding success of BritJazz09, a patriotic fortnight conceived, it can be revealed, as "a bit of a gimmick for a quiet time of ...
A disabled woman won her legal battle Thursday to force British authorities to say whether her husband would be prosecuted if he helped her commit suicide.The House of Lords, Britain's highest court, ordered the government to draw up rules for ...
landmark victory" Thursday in her long-running legal battle to clarify the law on assisted suicides, her lawyers said. "I feel like I have my life back," said Debbie Purdy, whose health is deteriorating, after the ruling by the Law Lords, Britain's ...
landmark victory" Thursday in her long-running legal battle to clarify the law on assisted suicides, her lawyers said. "I feel like I have my life back," said Debbie Purdy, whose health is deteriorating, after the ruling by the Law Lords, Britain's ...
landmark victory" Thursday in her long-running legal battle to clarify the law on assisted suicides, her lawyers said. "I feel like I have my life back," said Debbie Purdy, whose health is deteriorating, after the ruling by the Law Lords.The 46-year-old ...

Courtney Pine makes exciting music

His new album, Transition in Tradition, is dedicated to soprano-sax legend Sidney Bechet but Courtney Pine is also covering a vast swathe of world-jazz, influenced no doubt by his cosmopolitan group, which includes Afro-Cuban violinist Omar Puente, and two fellow Anglo-Caribbeans, bassist ...

British MS sufferer loses assisted suicide law bid

A British multiple sclerosis sufferer lost her court bid Thursday to clarify the law on whether her husband could be prosecuted if he helped her travel to commit suicide abroad.Wheelchair-bound Debbie Purdy, 45, had asked the Court of Appeal in London ...

MS sufferer loses assisted suicide law bid

A British multiple sclerosis sufferer lost her court bid Thursday to clarify the law on whether her husband could be prosecuted if he helped her travel to commit suicide abroad.Wheelchair-bound Debbie Purdy, 45, had asked the Court of Appeal in London ...
UK woman loses court case regarding assisted suicide, but still optimisticA British woman with multiple sclerosis lost a court battle on Thursday aimed at protecting her husband from possible prosecution if he takes her to a suicide clinic overseas.But in its ...
Debbie Purdy went to the Royal Courts of Justice because she was determined that when she died her husband would be there with her to hold her hand. Yesterday, after she was defeated in a landmark legal action on assisted suicide to ...