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American actress DELTA BURKE’s spell in hospital is the result of a lifetime battle with anxiety and depression.
The 51-year-old star checked herself into a clinic earlier this month to battle obsessive compulsive disorder and "hoarding".
Speaking for the first time since, Burke reveals she has suffered anxiety attacks since she was in kindergarten and has been depressed since she was 13.
She claims her problems escalated after doctors prescribed her a number of drugs to combat her symptoms.
Burke tells Entertainment Tonight, "I was on five different kinds of medication. After a couple of years the meds stopped working. I needed an adjustment under a physician’s care. I was being proactive. Now I’m on two medications." She reveals she contemplated suicide during her darkest time, on the set of U.S. sitcom Designing Women: "It was a very desperate time. I was parked in the car in the Hills with a gun and a bottle of Xanax beside me, trying to recover from harsh words said in the tabloids. I just wanted the pain to go away. I didn’t want to die. If I ever really wanted to be dead, I’d be dead." She adds of her OCD, "At one time I had 27 storage units. I don’t have a big enough house! My mom had it, it’s my mother’s fault! She saved the diaper I came home from the hospital in! "I want people to pursue mental help the same as they would pursue physical help, like cancer. I will be the face of depression."

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SNOW PATROL frontman GARY LIGHTBODY will speak in front of an arts committee to promote Irish music on Thursday (21Feb08).
The singer will give testimony to the advancements the Oh Yeah project has made for Irish musicians, reports Gigwise.com.
Ash frontman Tim Wheeler launched Oh Yeah in a bid to establish a music centre - with rehearsal and performance spaces - in Northern Ireland’s capital, branding it "a long-overdue idea for Belfast".

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Rockers LINKIN PARK wowed competition winners on Thursday (21Feb08) by playing a private gig at an Apple store in New York.
The intimate concert is part of a series of shows organised by the computer company to promote its iTunes internet shop.
Previous in-store performances include Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, Kaki King, The New Pornographers and Simian Mobile Disco.
Frontman Chester Bennington told small crowd, "This is the best show in an Apple store we’ve ever played."

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Country star GARTH BROOKS has carried around three lucky seeds for 18 years, after they helped him triumph at an award ceremony.
The singer won six prizes at the 1990 Association of Country Music Awards, and he is convinced the lucky buckeye seeds handed to him by a fan the day before are responsible.
And he is so superstitious he now takes taken everywhere.
Brooks says, "A guy in Ohio gave me three buckeyes. He said, ‘These are lucky, hang onto them.’ The next night we flew out here to the ACMs and that night we were lucky enough to walk away with six of them.
"I have kept them with me."

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NINE INCH NAILS frontman TRENT REZNOR is delighted New York-based TVT Records has filed for bankruptcy, after falling out with the company in the early 1990s.
The singer was at the centre of several highly-publicised disputes with his troubled former label, which filed for bankruptcy earlier this week (20Feb08).
Reznor fell out with the firm following a series of disputes over producers, single releases and royalties. In 1992, the star reached an agreement with TVT allowing him to leave the label while still paying a small amount of proceeds.
And Reznor can’t help but revel in the news that the company is in trouble.
He writes on his internet site: "You gonna get yours. Not ALL news in the music industry is bad these days." The star linked his statement to an article about the collapse of TVT.

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LATEST: KISS star GENE SIMMONS is taking legal action after a video allegedly showing him having sex with a model was posted on the internet.
The rocker, who has been dating his long-term partner Shannon Tweed for over 20 years, reportedly made the tape while carrying out promotional duties as a spokesman for Frank’s Energy Drink.
The film, showing a man who appears to be Simmons, has been posted on website AVN.com, which is selling the raunchy footage as a download.
And Simmons is so furious he’s consulted his lawyers about taking action over the scandal.
He writes on his internet site, "Rest assured the proper legal team is looking at all ramifications and options."

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Italian officials are selling lottery tickets for locals to win a place in the local cemetery.
The lottery was created because the town had to create an emergency graveyard containing 48 plots after the cemetery in Marano, near Naples, run out of space.
Fearing people would try and bribe people to secure a plot, officials devised the public lottery.
The town was forced to come up with new plots after bodies started stacking up in the local morgues.
Cemetery caretaker Mario Granata said: "We had no choice but to take emergency measures. The situation was getting out of control."

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A German man was so angry when he girlfriend lit up a cigarette that he used a fire extinguisher to put it out.
The anti-smoker coated his apartment in powder when he used the extinguisher in the apartment in the western city of Bielefeld.
A police spokesman said: "My colleagues said it looked like a bomb had gone off in there. He managed to put the cigarette out though!" The 42-year-old man also shouted abuse at his girlfriend when she refused to put out the nicotine stick.
The spokesman added: "He said he wasn’t bothered by the damage it caused.
And that he’s through with his girlfriend."

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A Chinese man has been fined for driving with an intravenous drip in his arm.
Mr. Sun was stopped by police in Laishan city when they spotted him driving with an IV bottle hanging from his rear-view mirror, with the needle in his left arm.
A police spokesman said: "Only his right hand was free to control the wheel and change gears." Sun explained he had got sick of waiting for medical treatment and decided to drive home.
He said: "I thought as long as I drove slowly there would be no danger." Sun was fined 50 yuan and given a serious warning.

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A Hong Kong company has designed with gun-shaped egg fryers for wannabe gangsters.
Urban Trend’s stainless steel fryers allow customers to serve up their fried eggs in a variety of weapon shapes, including a Magnum .45 and a Uzi.
A company spokesman said: "Whatever the reason, gun-shaped objects seem to be all the rage these days. We think these fryers will go down very well." The kitchenware will sell for £3 for a pack of four, and will hit stores worldwide later this year.

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Two US boys were shocked after discovering a live World War II hand grenade.
Sidney Mathis, eight, and his friend, both from Florida, were searching for buried treasure with a metal detector and came across the weapon.
The boys were then about to put the grenade into a bucket of water before Sidney’s dad arrived home to find them in the dangerous situation.
Chris Mathis grabbed the grenade and dangled it outside the window of his car as he drove away from the apartment complex but then had second thoughts. He said: "I hit a bump and that’s about the time I realised moving the grenade wasn’t the brightest thing to do." Two members of an Air Force explosives unit from nearby Hurlburt Field took the grenade and destroyed it.

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Parts of a Polish city have been cornered off to allow young male drivers to speed through the areas.
Police in Lodz have decided to section off parts at night to allow youngsters to drive through at hell-raising speeds.
Officers hope encouraging them to race and show off their cars in a controlled zone - where they can travel as fast as they like - will cut down on accidents in the rest of the city.
The first legal races have taken place in Lodz, monitored by the city police and the Lodz motoring club.
Lech Ryszewski, head of the club, said: "The motoring club has created a Street Legal section, which will organise the races in closed off streets, under the supervision of licensed organisers and judges."

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Polish paramedics are taking to the street on bicycles to combat traffic problems.
The medieval city of Krakow often becomes gridlocked with vehicles so specially designed bikes, complete with blue flashing lights, will now by used in an emergency.
The cycles will also be equipped with a selection of medicines and lightweight devices for emergency first aid. Ambulance worker Jakub Grochowski said: "There are many times when the only way to get to an emergency has been by bike."

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A British cat who escaped from a visit to the vets has turned up - three-and-a-half years later.
Eight-year-old moggy Sam got scared when owner Elaine Woodham was taking him in her car for his annual injections.
So he squeezed out of his cage and jumped out of the car window.
He was eventually reunited with his owner after a woman handed him in. Staff read his ID microchip and traced him to his home in East Grinstead, West Sussex. Elaine said: "I’d given up all hope."

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A Korean is facing charges after attempting to eat his landlady’s dog.
The Seoul resident, named only as Park, took the Chihuahua while his landlady was in the bathroom, and started to use the pooch to prepare it as his meal. He killed the poor dog first before trying to scorch it before cooking it properly.
However, he set his room on fire and when firefighters arrived they found the remains of the dog and he was promptly arrested.
Park said of his actions: "I did so because I was hungry."

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A US firefighter’s life was saved by a DVD which was in his pocket when he was accidentally shot.
Barry McRoy, from South Carolina, was off-duty and leaving a restaurant in Walterboro when two men entered fighting over a gun, which accidentally went off as they struggled for control.
The bullet hit one of the men before shattering a window and hitting McRoy, who didn’t even know he had been shot until he spotted a bullet hole in his jacket while talking to police.
He said: "I was saved by a DVD I had in my pocket, how lucky can you get?" The shooter was charged with two assault counts, battery with intent to kill and other gun-related charges.

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Diners in an English restaurant found an obscene message in their bill after complaining about the service.
Restaurant goers at Joe Delucci’s steak and pasta house in Staffordshire’s Lichfield found the words "Suck my d**k, f**k face" scrawled on their bill after they complained they had waited two hours for their food to arrive.
Claire Watkins, 32, was enjoying a reunion dinner with nine old school friends, and didn’t notice the message until she got home and checked the receipt.
She said: "I was gobsmacked. The message was hidden among the items we had ordered and they probably thought we would never notice it." Restaurant owner Nigel Langstone apologised, adding: "This was a private joke between two members of staff that was never intended to be seen by anyone else.
"We will happily donate the full cost of the meal to the local children’s hospice as a goodwill gesture."

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An English man is being immortalised in stone as a reward for 30 years service.
Stuart Boyfield, 50, will have his face chiselled into a stone gargoyle at Lincolnshire’s Lincoln Cathedral to thank him for unlocking and locking the cathedral’s works yard every day since 1977.
He said: "It is a great honour to have something like this done and I am very proud. I will be in the company of a former Queen, a Dean and of course the Lincoln Imp. To think that my likeness will be up there for the next 500 years and people will read records about it is really quite amazing." It took two months for a mason to carve the gargoyle, which stands a meter high, from locally quarried limestone. It will be displayed on the cathedral’s south wall from next month.

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