"Yardie" is among around 400 films screening at the Berlinale.
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In the 1990s, Glamma Kid chose to be a Yardie.
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"Yardie" and "Turn Up Charlie" both debut on Friday, March 214.
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The star proposed at a screening of his film, Yardie, which he directed.
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She was also in the film Yardie and the Channel 4 series The Bisexual.
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Update, May 10th: A representative says Yardie will now debut in June instead of May.
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Actors Naomi Ackie (Yardie) and Richard E. Grant (Gosford Park, Logan) will also join the cast.
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Elba's feature directing debut, the Jamaican-set crime drama Yardie, will debut at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
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Idris Elba's directorial debut, "Yardie," centers on D, an aspiring rapper living in Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1970s.
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An earlier version of this article contained an outdated release date for "Yardie" based on information from a publicist.
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Elba is certainly having a moment, with his directing debut, an indie movie titled "Yardie," also opening March 15.
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Yardie is about a Jamaican man who ends up in London and gets sucked into a violent quest for revenge.
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Elba, 46, proposed to the 29-year-old former beauty queen at a screening of his film "Yardie" in February 2018.
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ARTS A film entry in the Listings pages on Wednesday about "Yardie," using information from a publicist, misstated its release date.
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In August, while promoting his directorial debut Yardie, Elba was asked if he'll be the next actor to take on the role.
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Encounters The British actor is a star of "Yardie," but at the Nuyorican cafe he's just another guy at open mic night.
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Elba and Dhowre became engaged in February 2018, when Elba dropped down on one knee during a screening of his directorial debut, Yardie.
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"Yardie ... is a reminder of where we come from in England," Elba said at a news conference after a screening of his film.
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In addition to starring in Turn Up Charlie, Elba recently directed the film Yardie and is set to star in The Suicide Squad sequel.
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Perhaps that's why, for his directorial debut for the film Yardie, Elba held an open casting call in Hackney, London where he grew up.
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Yet whether in the kaleidoscopic warmth of Jamaica or the gray chill of London, "Yardie"'s sunlight-filled songs will make your toes twitch.
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The 45-year-old actor popped the question on Saturday at Rio Cinema in London, before a screening of his big screen directorial debut Yardie.
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At a London screening of his directorial debut, Yardie, Elba got down on one knee and popped the question to girlfriend Sabrina Dhowre in front of everyone.
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Hearing the slang, the patois, the rhythms of speech, seeing rudeboys bopping street with that unmistakably Yardie* lean, eating the patties… and of course, listening to the music.
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In "Yardie," his reggae-rich directorial debut, Elba has adapted Victor Headley's 221 novel, veering between 19673s Jamaica and '21967s Britain, and the intertwined narcotics and music industries.
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He was soon joined by his father, Bilal Ameen, and his father's friend Lawrence Augustus (both had flown in from London to spend time with Mr. Ameen for "Yardie" promotional events).
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Straddling the intersection of drug dealing and the music industry, "Yardie," the big-screen directing debut of the actor Idris Elba, struggles to carve a path between warring gangs and reggae beats.
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It was Wednesday, which meant an open mic poetry slam, and Mr. Ameen, 33, who stars in "Yardie," a British crime drama directed by Idris Elba, wanted to make his slam debut.
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At the same time, "Yardie" (the title is Jamaican patois for a gang member) has something to say about the way immigrants can become trapped in the loyalties and vendettas of their homelands.
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Elba, 46, had planned to propose to Dhowre on Valentine's Day "but that was going to be problematic" so he decided to do it at a screening of his film, Yardie, which he directed.
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The screenwriter, Martin Stellman, had worked as a community organizer in the neighborhood and fallen in love with reggae (Stellman recently wrote the screenplay for Idris Elba's Yardie, a reggae movie about gang violence).
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A film depicting the Jamaican community in London in the 1980s is a reminder of Britain's multicultural complexity, British actor Idris Elba said presenting "Yardie", his directorial debut, at the Berlin Film Festival.
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He also directed his first feature film Yardie (in U.S. theaters on March 15), hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time on March 9, and filmed an upcoming movie version of Cats with Taylor Swift.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British actor Idris Elba goes behind the camera for his directorial debut "Yardie", a crime drama he says will offer young people a "perspective" on violence at a time when London is suffering from a surge in knife crime.
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After some decent parts (including in "The Maze Runner" franchise and the Netflix series "Sense8,"), he landed the leading role in "Yardie," in which he plays D., a Jamaican man who smuggles a small blizzard of cocaine into 24.73s London.
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And now Idris Elba's Yardie is a Black take on gun violence and sound systems from Kingston to London at the dawn of the more aggressive Dancehall movement, which departed from roots reggae's peaceful message to reflect gangster culture as Jamaica sank into terror.
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Paradox: Lately, it seems like independent-skewing film festivals have been showcasing a lot of first-time directors who are also well-known actors, like Idris Elba (whose Yardie premiered at Sundance this year), Rupert Everett (The Happy Prince, also at Sundance) Andy Serkis (Breathe debuted at Toronto in 2017), and Brie Larson (Unicorn Store, also at Toronto 2017).
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At the same time, the Jamaican government severely cracked down on Yardie gangs and political violence in general, leading many so-called Yardie gangsters to immigrate abroad and establish gangs the U.K., U.S., and Canada. The establishment of Yardie gangs abroad coincided with the rise of crack cocaine in both North America and the U.K., and Yardie and Posse gangs from Jamaica became heavily involved in the trafficking of crack cocaine and other drugs, in addition to illegal gambling and other criminal activity.
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The gangs in London are specifically known to have occupied and operated in their infamous grounds of Brixton, Harlesden, Hackney, Tottenham, Peckham and Notting Hill. Yardie activity has been reported in AberdeenYardies' menace spreads WalesOnline (15 June 2003) and South WalesMore raids in hunt for Yardie gangs South Wales Argus (14 November 2002) (see county lines drug trafficking). Jamaican-born British writer Victor Headley wrote a bestselling 1992 novel entitled Yardie. In 2018, British actor Idris Elba made his directorial debut with his feature film Yardie, based on Headley's book.
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The Yardie Creek Station was eventually re-acquired in 1959 by the Western Australian Government to become part of the Cape Range National Park.
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In September 1995, he pleaded guilty and was convicted of armed robbery, possession of firearms and unlawful wounding "Top Policeman Defends Handling of Yardie Case".
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Press Association. 14 Sep 1995 by the Leeds Crown Court. He had shot one of the male guests in the foot during the robbery, allegedly to allay suspicions that he was an informer,"'I Was Set Up', Yardie Tells Judge". Press Association. 4 October 1995 but his sentence was reduced due to cooperating with the prosecution in a previous trial."Yardie grass jailed". The Independent.
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Immediately above the Yardie on the Buckie side of the burn is the Seatown. To the west of the Yardie is Harbourhead. To the east of Cluny Harbour lie Ianstown, Gordonsburgh and Portessie also known locally as The Sloch (historically The Rotten Slough), which reaches towards Strathlene. These communities were, to all intents and purposes, separate fishing settlements that gradually merged over the course of time.
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Eaton Green (born 1967) was a Yardie gang member involved in armed robbery, drug dealing and extortion in South London. The first Yardie to become a police informant for the Metropolitan Police, his later testimony during his 1997 deportation hearing would reveal police protection for his criminal activities by immigration and intelligence officers of the Drug Related Violence and Intelligence Unit, which included false passports to allow accomplices Cecil and Rohan Thomas into the country "Police to Change Use of Yardie Informers". The Independent. 7 July 1998 as well as securing residency rights due to his marriage to a British woman under questionable circumstances.
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During the 1950s, the British government encouraged immigration to the country to fill existing job vacancies. Within the Caribbean community, new arrivals from Jamaica were sometimes referred to as "Yardies" due to reference of Jamaica as "back a yard" (or "back home"). A large influx of inner city Jamaican immigration to Britain during the 1980s led to the rise of gang violence or behaviour on the part of Jamaicans which became known in wider British society as "Yardie culture" and the participants "Yardies". The terms "Yardie gang" or "Yardie gun violence" were largely used by the British media to describe violent crimes in London's black community.
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Yardie gangs are notorious for their involvement in gun crime and the illegal drug trade, notably marijuana and crack cocaine in the United Kingdom. In 1993, Yardies were blamed for the murder of Police Constable Patrick Dunne, shot dead while patrolling in Clapham. In 2006, Rohan Chung, described as a Jamaican yard gangster was given three life sentences for the murders of Noel Patterson and his daughters, Connie and Lorna Morrison. British police are hesitant to categorize British Yardie gangs as organized crime, since there appears to be no real structure or central leadership; affiliations between the various Yardie gangs in the UK can be described as loose at best.
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Academics have noted a tendency to over-label black British crime as "Yardie"-related due to stereotype and social narrative. A number of operations to combat Yardie gun crime have been set up, notably Operation Trident in the London area."Police tackle London's Yardies", BBC News, 20 July 1999. Yardies (or imitating) gangs also appear to be active in Bristol, Birmingham, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Nottingham but to a lesser extent.
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The system features coaching from Sammy. Sammy has also recently worked as a vocal coach on films such as the Idris Elba-directed YARDIE and Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded by the Light.
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Since then, he has co-written 2018's Yardie and 2019's The Mustang.IMDb He lives in the East End of London with his partner Cara Konig- Brock and their two children.
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Scott and Sid won two awards: Best British Film and Best Supporting Actress (for Charlotte Milchard) at the National Film Awards UK 2019 and was nominated for Best Drama but lost to Yardie.
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Victor Headley (born 1959) is a Jamaican-born British author. He is the author of the bestselling novel Yardie (1992), which gained cult status upon publication and "heralded a new wave of black British pulp fiction". Other books by Headley include Excess (1993) Yush (1994), Fetish (1995), Here Comes the Bride (1997), Off Duty (2001) and Seven Seals (2003).
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More specifically, a person from the Northern United States. Even more specifically, a person from New England. ;Yardie : (Jamaica, UK, US) A person from Jamaica, sometimes derogatory, referring to gang membership or low economic status. ;Yokel : (UK, US and Canada) An unrefined white person, implicitly rural and "hick" (not necessarily "white trash" but inclusive of same).
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Stylo G's first initial hit was a grime song, "My Yout", featuring Stickman and Ice Kid. The song gained some notability within the grime scene. As a result of being in the UK, he collaborated with many UK rap and grime artists such as Giggs, Chip, Zeph Ellis, and Wretch 32. In 2011, Stylo G released "Call Mi A Yardie".
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They lived in the mangroves and would venture out to sea on logs. In that same year, 1876, the first pastoral lease was taken up in the area when Minilya Station was established over the Exmouth Peninsula in its entirely. After subdivisions, Thomas Carter established the Yardie Creek Station over 54,600 hectares. At some point in this time, the Yinikutira disappeared from history.
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Eaton Green, one of the Yardies, escaped bail in Jamaica in 1991 and settled in Brixton, dealing in crack cocaine. Three months later Green was arrested by a Brixton constable, Steve Barker, and became a paid informer. Green provided intelligence about Yardie activity for two years, continuing the use of firearms and the dealing of crack throughout this time. Several gangs are headquartered in the Brixton area.
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Headley has sold more than half a million copies across five titles, in five languages worldwide. Headley's Yardie has been adapted as a feature film of the same name, released in 2018. In 2017, actor Idris Elba announced the book as the vehicle for his directorial debut, with Aml Ameen starring as the main character "D". Also starring are British actors Mark Smith and Naomi Ackie.
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Family Food Fight (abbreviated as FFF) is an American cooking reality competition television series based on the Australian television series of the same name. The series is produced by Endemol Shine North America and Yardie Girl Productions, with Faye Stapleton, Ayesha Curry, Shab Azma, Robert Flutie, Sharon Levy, DJ Nurre, and Georgie Hurford-Jones serving as executive producers. It premiered on ABC on June 20, 2019, and consisted of 8 episodes.
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The Cane River is a river in the Pilbara of Western Australia. The headwaters of the river rise west of the Hamersley Range. The river flows in a north- westerly direction through the Cane River Conservation Park and over the Onslow Coastal Plain then discharges into the Indian Ocean near Yardie Landing approximately north-east of Onslow. The river is considered to be dendritic with no major tributaries, numerous wells exist within the catchment area.
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Yardie is a 2018 British crime drama film directed by Idris Elba, in his feature directorial debut, and starring Aml Ameen, Shantol Jackson, Stephen Graham, Fraser James, Sheldon Shepherd, and Everaldo Creary. It is based on the novel of the same name by Jamaican-born writer Victor Headley. It was screened in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. In February 2018, the first trailer to the film and a poster was released.
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On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 54%, based on 67 reviews with an average rating of 5.73/10. The site's critical consensus reads "Yardie proves debuting director Idris Elba has a distinctive eye that benefits from a strong personal connection to his material, even if the end results are somewhat uneven." Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 52 out of 100, based on 18 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
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Drake-Brockman has suggested that this location is to be identified with Yardie Creek. It was not until the longboat reached the island of Nusa Kambangan in the Dutch East Indies that Pelsaert and the others found more water. The journey took 33 days, with everyone surviving. After their arrival in Batavia, the boatswain, Jan Evertsz, was arrested and executed for negligence and "outrageous behavior" before the loss of the ship (he was suspected to have been involved).
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In the United Kingdom, these Jamaican gangsters would be referred to as yardies in reference to people who lived in "government yards" {"Yard" is a Jamaican slang for home and surrounding areas. "Yardie" is an adjective describing any one from Jamaica.} in the aftermath of Hurricane Charlie, which hit Jamaica in 1951. They are strongly populated in London and are specifically known to have occupied and operate in Brixton, Harlesden, Tottenham, Hackney and Peckham among other areas.
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Mickey refuses to fight again unless Turkish buys a better caravan for his mother, but Turkish has no money left since Brick Top stole his savings. Furious, Brick Top has his men vandalize Turkish's gambling arcade and burn down Mickey's mother's caravan while she is asleep inside. Meanwhile, Boris retrieves the diamond and murders Franky with a pistol. Brick Top tracks down Sol, Vinny, Tyrone, and their friend, Yardie "Bad Boy" Lincoln and plans on killing them for robbing his bookies.
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Records of Crenadactylus occidentalis are at altitudes less than 100 metres asl. The distribution range of the species is restricted to sub-coastal and coastal habitat in Western Australia, from Carnarvon to the south beyond the Northwest Cape to Yardie Creek. The range includes offshore areas near Carnarvon and at Shark Bay on Dorre and Berniers. The vegetation type of their habitat is composed of grass mounds of spinifex country and low coastal shrub-lands, dominated by banksia and acacia species.
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These gangs became known as "Yardies," "posses", or "crews". Accounts of the association between Jamaican political factions and the rise of the Yardies are given in the factual books Ruthless by Geoff Small and Born Fi' Dead by Laurie Gunst. By the 1980s, a drop in government budgets resulted in less money being paid by political parties to their gangs of armed supporters. These political Yardie gangs thus increasingly turned to apolitical criminal activity, such as drug trafficking, to bring in income.
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Eyo's first television appearance was in 1997, in Casualty, which was filmed earlier. She also made an appearance on Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and appeared in Gold the follow up drama series to Band Of Gold as a young prostitute involved with Yardie gangsters who come over to Bradfords red light district from Leeds to clear up the Lane. In 1999, Eyo appeared with Goldie in the David Bowie film Everybody Loves Sunshine known as B.U.S.T.E.D., internationally. She also starred in the movie G:MT - Greenwich Mean Time.
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In popular music, Spike Jones and his City Slickers recorded "So 'Elp Me", based on rhyming slang, in 1950. The 1967 Kinks song "Harry Rag" was based on the usage of the name Harry Wragg as rhyming slang for "fag" (i.e. a cigarette). The idiom made a brief appearance in the UK-based DJ reggae music of the 1980s in the hit "Cockney Translation" by Smiley Culture of South London; this was followed a couple of years later by Domenick and Peter Metro's "Cockney and Yardie".
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In this sense, the term is sometimes used interchangeably with the term "posse" or "Jamaican posse" to refer to crime groups of Jamaican origin, with the term "posse" used more frequently in North America and "Yardies" being used more frequently in the United Kingdom. Yardie gangs or Jamaican "posses" are involved in a wide array of criminal activity depending on their location, ranging from political corruption, political violence, and assassination in Jamaica to drug trafficking and gang violence in the U.S., Canada, and U.K.
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The Aggi Crew were a criminal drug gang based in the St Paul's district of Bristol. The name of the gang is an abbreviation of aggravated burglary ("doing an aggi") according to its former leader. The gang dominated the city's drug market throughout most of the 1990s, until in 1998 six gang members were jailed after being caught with more than a £1 million worth of crack cocaine. The power vacuum that this created was quickly filled by Yardie gangs such as the Hype Crew and Mountain View Posse.
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Buckpool is a village on the coast of Moray, Scotland. Originally known as Nether Buckie it is now effectively a part of the town of Buckie as the nearby fishing settlements merged as they expanded. Buckpool Harbour built in 1857 by local laird, Sir Robert Gordon of Cluny was unpopular due to silting and fishermen moved to the larger Cluny Harbour in Buckie once it was completed by 1877. Buckpool Harbour was filled in with stones from the neighbouring Yardie beach in the 1970s and landscaped into a park.
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Drinking a yard glass full of beer is a traditional pub game in the UK. Some ancient colleges at Oxford University have sconcing forfeits. Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke was previously the world record holder for the fastest drinking of a yard of beer, when he downed a sconce pot in eleven seconds as part of a traditional Oxford college penalty. In New Zealand, where it is referred to as a "yardie", drinking a yard glass full of beer is traditionally performed at a 21st birthday by the celebrated person.
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Many of the flats date to after 2000. Non- mixed use terraces and private sector built apartments are the main housing types that attract high prices from private sector owner-occupiers unable to afford similar properties in nearby Kensal Green and Queen's Park. Starting in 1999, Harlesden and the nearby Stonebridge estate, witnessed a high number of murders and became a crime hotspot, because of several rival yardie gangs. During this time Harlesden turned into one of London's main crack cocaine trading centres, and one of the yardies' strongholds.
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Born in Jamaica, Headley came to live in London at the age of 12Kieran Meeke, "Victor Headley" (interview), Metro, 27 October 2009. and after leaving school had a variety of jobs, from market stallholder to songwriter/band member, journalist to hospital courier. Headley's attempts to write a screenplay became his first novel, Yardie, which describes the life of a Jamaican courier carrying cocaine from Jamaica to London. The book helped to launch X Press, a black-owned publishing company co-founded in 1992 by Dotun Adebayo and Steve Pope.
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On 21 July 2016, it was announced that 'Residential', a London-based Yardie drama is to close the 2016 British Urban Film Festival at the Odeon Cinemas in Swiss Cottage. Former Radio 1 disc jockey Chris Goldfinger is amongst the movie's producers. On 8 September 2016, it was announced that Trace Urban is to sponsor the BUFF Awards 2016 in the "best movie" category. It was also announced that Ghanaian hip hop star Fuse ODG is to attend the ceremony along with Trace CEO Olivier Laouchez to present the "best movie" award.
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4 October 1995 After serving six years in prison, efforts to avoid deportation by his charge that he had been told by Metropolitan intelligence officers that he would be under the protection of the DRVIU failed and was eventually deported following his deportation trial on 10 July 1997. Following his release from prison, he applied for asylum on the basis that he would be killed as an informant if returned to Jamaica,"Yardie Supergrass Will Be Deported Back To Jamaica". Birmingham Post. 10 July 1999 which apparently was denied and he was reportedly repatriated to Jamaica in 1999.
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Retrieved 6 October 2006. In 2006 Zadie Smith won the Orange Prize for On Beauty. Smith's acclaimed first novel, White Teeth (2000), was a portrait of contemporary multicultural London, drawing from her own upbringing with an English father and a Jamaican mother.Author Profile Zadie Smith. Retrieved 6 October 2006. The UK also has a modest output of African-Caribbean popular fiction. A widely known example is Yardie, a work of Urban fiction written by Victor Headley in 1992, describing the life of a Jamaican courier carrying cocaine from Jamaica to London. The book was published by Steve Pope and Dotun Adebayo of Xpress books.
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Ameen's first Hollywood film role is in George Lucas's Red Tails (2012), about the African American Tuskegee airman in World War II. He played Alby in the 2014 film adaptation of the young adult, science-fiction, dystopian novel, The Maze Runner. In 2015, Ameen was one of the eight central characters in the initial run of the Netflix series Sense8, produced by the Wachowskis and J. Michael Straczynski. However, conflicts with the Wachowskis resulted in his replacement with Toby Onwumere after filming two episodes of the second season in 2016. In 2018, Ameen starred as a young Jamaican named "D" in the film Yardie.
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Geographically, the town is, broadly speaking, laid out in a linear fashion, following the coastline. There is a lower shore area and an upper area. Fundamentally Buckie itself is the central part of the community lying between the Victoria Bridge under which flows the Buckie Burn at the western end of West Church Street, the eastern end of Cluny Harbour and above the shore area. To the west of Victoria Bridge and the Buckie Burn is Buckpool, which was formerly known as Nether Buckie, and on the shoreline, west of Cluny Harbour, between Baron Street and the Buckie Burn mouth, there is the Yardie.
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Thomsons is gone but the premises of Herd and McKenzie and Jones are part of the modern day Buckie Shipyard. It was Herd and McKenzie, a firm with its roots in Dunbartonshire from where Messrs Herd and Mackenzie sortied north, which built and launched the training schooner Captain Scott in 1972. At the time of its launch, this vessel was the largest of its type in the world. In earlier years, there were further boat construction operations dotted along the shoreline from The Yardie to Ianstown and on to Portessie but these had mostly been amalgamated into the three main firms or had gone out of business by the interwar period.
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Yardie (or Yaadi) is a term often used, particularly within the Caribbean expatriate and Jamaican diaspora community, to refer to persons of Jamaican origin, though its exact meaning changes depending on context. The term is derived from the Jamaican patois for home or "yard". The term may have specifically originated from the crowded "government yards" of two-storey concrete homes found in Kingston and inhabited by poorer Jamaican residents, though "yard" can also refer to "home" or "turf" in general in Jamaican patois . Outside of Jamaica, "yardies" is often used to refer to Jamaican gangs or organized crime groups and gangsters of Jamaican origin, nationality, or ethnicity.
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Buckie is situated near the A98 primary road, which connects Fraserburgh with Fochabers at the junction of the A96. The A98 runs east-west, approximately parallel with the southern edge of Buckie. The A942 starts at "The Toll Bar" and runs due north from the A98 into Buckie becoming High Street and then North High Street before swinging east as Low Street, along the harbour as Commercial Road and onwards as Rathburn Street, Reidhaven Street and finally Great Eastern Road out of town towards Findochty and Portknockie. Where the A942 swings east, the A990 commences to the west and heads past The Yardie and onwards as Main Street and then Great Western Road towards Portgordon.
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Thomas Sean Adams (born in 1958 in London) is allegedly financier for his brothers Terry and Patrick. A married father of four, he still has a home near the family's traditional Islington base, but was understood to be mainly living in Spain before he was jailed in 2017. Tommy Adams was charged with involvement in the handling of Brink's-MAT gold bullion but in 1985 was cleared of involvement in the laundering of the proceeds during a high-profile Old Bailey trial with co-defendant Kenneth Noye. Tommy Adams is suspected of establishing connections to other international criminal organisations including numerous Yardie gangs as well as gaining an $80 million credit line from Colombian drug cartels.
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Lenaert Jacobszoon was a captain of the Dutch East India Company who, on in the vessel Mauritius, sighted North West Cape in the north-west of Western Australia mistakenly believing it to be a large island. He also named the Willems River (presumed to be Ashburton River) and the Jocob Remmessens River (presumed to be Yardie Creek) in the same voyage. On board the ship was supercargo Willem Janszoon, former captain of the Duyfken, who wrote to the Dutch East India Company in Amsterdam about the discovery of an island during the voyage. Also on board was 25-year-old Anthony van Diemen who was later to push for the further exploration of the southern land and after whom Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) was named.
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A number of gangs have gained notoriety in the course of history, including the Sicilian Mafia, Italian-American Mafia, and various other Italian organized crime groups, such as the Camorra; the Russian mafia, the Albanian mafia, the Irish Mob, the Thugee, the D-Company, various organizations within the French underworld, particularly Corsican mafia groups such as Unione Corse and the Gang de la Brise de Mer; British Firms, the Jewish Mob, the Greek mafia, the Nigerian mafia, Triads, the Yakuza, the Jamaican posse and Yardie gangs; the African-American Bloods and Crips; the Armenian Mob; Latin American gangs such as the Colombian drug cartels, Mexican mafia, the Latin Kings, MS-13, Norteños and Sureños; white supremacist gangs such as the Aryan Brotherhood and Aryan Nations; and outlaw biker gangs like Hells Angels and Comanchero.
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It pushed the boundaries of taste but also explored political satire, social commentary, sexism, homophobia, racism, and police brutality. Like Viz, Skank featured comic strips, photo strips, joke articles, and celebrity references. It featured popular comic characters satirising Black communities of London, such as "Mary Mampy" - a 'bad gyal' from Peckham; "The Fugitive", a baby father on the run from his numerous baby mothers; "Scotland Yardie" – a Jamaican no-nonsense cop; "Rachel Prejudice" – a subtle dig at Black sell-outs; "White Galfriend", a look at mixed race relationships; "Malcolm Vex", a frustrated revolutionary; and "Wendy Weave- on", a spoilt supermodel with baldness issues. Spoof news stories frequently appeared in Skank, such as ‘Government ban on Ugly Women’, 'Pubic Weave Extensions', 'Free Ganja competitions', and 'Yam Throwing - new Olympic Sport announced'.
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He was arrested at an illegal drinking club in 1988 and found to be in possession of illegal drugs and deported later that year, officially for entering the country illegally, after being branded the most dangerous foreign national living in Britain.O'Hanlon, Terry (1996) "Storm as Yardie gangsters sneak back into Britain", Sunday Mirror, 21 July 1996 In 1990, after being deported from the United States, he was arrested in Canada for allegedly slashing his girlfriend's face with a knife after entering the country illegally on a fake passport, and attempted to gain refugee status there, claiming that he feared for his life in Jamaica due to his political affiliations."Refugee Reject Passes Our Test", Simcoe Reformer, 21 March 1990 He was eventually extradited back to Jamaica where he died in prison in 1996.
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Upon their release from prison the Aggi crew quickly set on reclaiming their old territory. Carrying guns and wearing balaclavas, the gangsters went around local bars such as the Black Swan and the Malcolm X Centre and announced the yardies would now have to pay a daily tax of £50 per yardie and £100 per business being run. The yardies did not agree with this however and stormed a cafe run by the Aggis, which doubled as a front for an illegal gambling operation. Thus was started a small-scale turf war which included a number of shootings, during the course of which the two Aggi crew members robbed the notorious Black and White Café, a known local drugs haunt, and later shot fireworks at the building in an attempt to provoke the yardies into a full-on gunfight.
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Defendant was indicted for aggravated burglary related to an incident on 23 January 2000, involving the same house and the same victim as the earlier incident. The defendant admitted at trial that he had forced his way into the house on this occasion, armed with a knife, and had attempted to steal the contents of the safe, but claimed that he had acted under duress exerted by Sullivan, who had fortified his reputation for violence by talking of three murders he had recently committed. On the day in question, the defendant claimed, he had been ambushed outside his home by Sullivan and an unknown black man whom he described as a "lunatic yardie". Sullivan demanded that the defendant get the money from the safe mentioned on the earlier occasion, and told the defendant that the black man would go with him to see that this was done.
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Ranking Dread first became known as a deejay on the Ray Symbolic sound system in Jamaica, but by the late 1970s he had moved to London, where he worked with Lloyd Coxsone's sound system. He released four albums starting with Girls Fiesta in 1978, produced by Linval Thompson, and worked with producer Sugar Minott on his third album, Lots of Loving. He had a minor UK hit in the early 1980s with "Fattie Boom Boom", but in the mid-1980s, he faded from the music scene and became more notorious for his criminal activities, where he was labelled "the most dangerous man in Britain and the number one Yardie Godfather".Thompson, Tony (2001) "Two more die on 'murder mile'", The Guardian, 22 April 2001 This was backed up by his appearance on a British television programme in the late 1980s entitled The Cook Report.
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Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past as a Provisional IRA volunteer in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison, members of a dissident republican group they are hellbent on derailing the Irish peace process with a few well-placed bombs. Unable to escape Brixton, they find themselves trapped together in Johnny's anything-but-safe safe house, sandwiched between a friendly Rastafarian reggae pirate radio station upstairs and a local Yardie, heroin-dealing gangster Julius, downstairs. As the charismatic Flynn finds some common criminal ground with the Yardies, Johnny fights to realize a peace process of his own but makes the mistake of falling for Julius's girlfriend Rita, sparking an all-out war. It is a London-based thriller in the vein of The Long Good Friday, in which questions of race, morality, identity and loyalty play out against a soundtrack of reggae, rock, new wave, soul and drum and bass.
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From the earliest days of the JBM, members and associates of the old Black Mafia served as mentors to various JBM members and are known to have played an important advisory role in the formation and development of the Junior Black Mafia. Many believe it was younger relatives of the original Black Mafia who created the "Junior Black Mafia" (JBM) and that the group was formed in order to counter a wave of Jamaican gangsters who sought to control crack cocaine trafficking. The JBM cooperates with associates of the Italian-American Bruno-Scarfo Mafia crime family in the distribution of cocaine and appears to have modeled its criminal methods after that LCN organization as well as the original Black Mafia, relying heavily on violence and extortion to further its drug enterprise. In accordance with this, one theory suggests that the original members of the 1970s-era Black Mafia organized African American youths into the JBM to thwart the Jamaicans Yardie control of drug distribution in the affected areas in Fort Carson.
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