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Danny Boyes was left with a tattooed face after a drunken prank – and now fears the artwork is putting the brakes on his dream job. The 22-year-old harbours ambitions to work in the funeral business, but thinks potential employers are being putting off by the Chinese symbols on his left cheek. Danny, of Southwick, bought the three-inch symbols after a drunken night of dares and has regretted the move ever since. Now he is in the process of having his body art removed in the hope of bagging a job with a funeral director. The dad-of-one said: "I regretted...

INNOCENT-eyed Alfie Patten spent his first night acting as a 13-year-old dad and declared: “It was easier than I thought.”

Ralph Surman, a national executive member of the Association of Teacher and Lecturers, said a significant number of young people who were brought up by single mothers in the 1980s are now doing nothing with their lives, have no work ethic, few social skills and cause higher crime rates. Mr Surman, a deputy head of Cantrell Primary and Nursery School in Bulwell, Nottingham, said: "We must talk about a class of uber-chavs. They are not doing anything productive and are costing taxpayers a fortune. "It is very difficult, almost impossible, to take these people now and provide basic social and...

The Feral Sex: The terrifying rise of violent girl gangsBy PAUL BRACCHI - More by this author » Last updated at 23:48pm on 16th May 2008  The girl emerged from her house with a mobile phone glued to her ear and a cigarette hanging out of her mouth.  Her friends take the mickey out of her, we learn from her sister's MySpace internet page, because she is never out of "a chav T-shirt and tracksuit bottoms" - and she didn't disappoint yesterday. Even so, it doesn't pay to get on the wrong side of this 14-year-old, who plays for...

Britain Is Plagued by Its Very Own Breed of 'Trailer Trash,' Dubbed the 'Chav' LONDON, March 7, 2007 — - America has the beer-swilling, foul-mouthed hillbilly who lives in a trailer park, does crystal meth, and wears a wife beater and overalls. Britain has the "chav." The chav lives in public housing called a "council estate," drives a big-bucks hot rod, wears more gold than Mr. T and is a foot soldier of corporate consumerism. Dressed uniformly in unimaginative designer-labels, chavs congregate around the halls of consumerism in the United Kingdom -- shopping malls and fast food outlets. In the...

Man Fathers 7 Children From 7 Women In 7 Years Englishman Pays No Child Support, Reports Claim July 3, 2006 A 21-year-old English man has fathered six children by six girlfriends and is about to father a seventh by another woman, according to British press reports. Keith MacDonald, who lives on welfare and has not paid child support for any of the children, fathered his first child at the age of 15, The Sun and other newspapers reported over the weekend. His case, involving seven children from seven women in seven years, has attracted international media attention. MacDonald and the...

11/11/2005 - Dad of 15 jailed for shop raid Robber threatened trader with fake gun A DRUG dealing father of 15 children who robbed and threatened a 64-year-old shop worker with a fake gun, has been thrown behind bars. Tony Richards, from Coley Park, grabbed cash and gold jewellery from pensioner Margaret Chede’s Whitley Street shop in Reading on April 23. Reading Crown Court heard the 55-year-old went into Sphere Communications at 10am, shortly after Mrs Chede opened up, and pointed the weapon at her, saying: “Give me all the money you have here.” Unsatisfied with the change she handed...

Baby, Scary, Ginger, Sporty and Bookish probably wouldn't have had quite the same ring to it. Despite penning a 528-page autobiography charting her rise to the top, Victoria Beckham has admitted that she has never read a book in her life. The revelation emerged in an interview with the Spanish magazine Chic. Although the issue in question has yet to the hit the shelves, details were leaked to the Spanish press over the weekend. "I haven't read a book in my life," Beckham confesses. "I don't have the time." However, the 31-year-old former Spice Girl does shrug off suggestions that...

Hats off for British delinquent Fri May 27, 1:22 PM ET LONDON (AFP) - A British juvenile delinquent who terrorized his neighbors with a chain saw was banned from wearing a cap or hooded sweatshirt for five years. Authorities slapped the Anti Social Behaviour Order on 16-year-old Dale Carroll of Cheetham, a suburb of Manchester, northwest England, after he was caught on a video surveillance camera taking a chain saw to a metal post. Carroll, known as "Elms" to his friends, then threatened a passing cyclist with the chain saw. It was the first time an Anti Social Behaviour Order,...

A teenage criminal who received £567,000 in compensation after falling through a roof while trespassing boasted about his wealth yesterday, saying that he was looking forward to buying "a few houses and a flash car". Carl Murphy, 18, got the payout last week, nine years after being injured in a 40ft fall at a warehouse in Bootle docks, near Liverpool, prompting angry protests from crime victims and politicians.

Michael Collins' chronicle of South-East London looks for the roots of today's chav-bashing. The Likes of Us: A Biography of the White Working ClassMichael Collins Granta Books, 2004.South-East London has never enjoyed a good press. Guidebooks treat it as an afterthought, an appendix to the real business elsewhere in the capital. Historical Greenwich is mentioned, of course, and a handful of other tourist-friendly sights, but that's your lot. The days when the South Bank theatres were surrounded by syphilitic brothels and murderous backstreets are long gone, yet the stigma persists. This corner of the capital remains a world apart. In...

Abusive 'chav' seen as British buzzword of 2004 Mon Oct 18,10:27 AM ET LONDON (AFP) - The word "chav", a newly-popularised term of abuse applied to loutish types fond of tracksuits and cheap gold jewellery, is Britain's defining word or phrase of 2004, a new book announced. "Chav" is to this year what "axis of evil" was to 2002, "gangsta" to 1988 and "beatnik" to 1958, according to author Susie Dent, whose "The Language Report" gives what she defines as the key terms for every year dating back to 1904. "Chav" -- a long-established but little used insult thought to...