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  David Blunkett scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Around August 2002, Blunkett gave two travel warrants to his married lover, Kimberley Quinn, who used them for a return journey to Doncaster, contrary to the rules.
Took Mrs Quinn, the publisher of The Spectator, to Spain for a wedding, accompanied by four security men and a driver, with much of the cost allegedly met by the taxpayer.
Budd found that Blunkett was first involved when Quinn passed him a letter to the Immigration and Naturalisation department (IND) on or about 28 April 2003.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Blunkett_scandal   (1534 words)

  
 United Press International: Blunkett wins first round of court battle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kimberley Quinn had asked the High Court to postpone any hearing until April because of her ill health, but her request was denied, the BBC reported.
Quinn, who denies her child was fathered by the home secretary, says her mental and physical health is at risk because of complications in her current pregnancy.
Blunkett is currently facing an inquiry after Quinn made allegations in a British newspaper that he misused his position to confer favors upon her, including fast tracking a visa for her nanny.
www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20041203-063514-2064r   (186 words)

  
 EscapeToRomance.com | Review of DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH by Patricia Waddell
Quinn is a diamond jackal and he is the only one that Sidney will trust to see Olivia safely to the boardinghouse.
Quinn wants her, but is fighting his attraction to her.
Quinn is still fighting his attraction to Olivia, but it is soon becoming a losing battle.
www.escapetoromance.com /reviews/waddell-diamond.html   (998 words)

  
 Blunkett’s former lover may tell all - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kimberley Quinn, according to sources, might write a revealing book but that could harm her case in an ongoing legal battle with Mr Blunkett.
Friends of Kimberley Quinn are encouraging her to “pull the trigger” and tell her side of the adulterous affair that led to the resignation of Home Secretary David Blunkett.
It is understood that 44 year old Mrs Quinn kept detailed records of their three year old relationship and spilling the beans could lead to even more damaging revelations about Mr Blunkett’s dealings with her and his views of Cabinet colleagues.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/dec252004/f5.asp   (389 words)

  
 Backpage Article Display   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The show's producers told the Telegraph that the "decline and fall" of Blunkett and the "highly charged atmosphere" surrounding his affair with Kimberley Quinn, 44-year-old publisher of Spectator magazine, had "huge entertainment potential".
Quinn, married to publisher Stephen Quinn, is currently pregnant with her second child.
Blunkett, who had a three-year-affair with Quinn, has started proceedings to prove that he is the father of Quinn's two-year-old son, William.
www.news24.com /News24/Backpage/HotGossip/0,,2-1343-1344_1654132,00.html   (200 words)

  
 Scotland on Sunday - UK - 'I know the law - I made the law': what Blunkett told lover
Observers were last night speculating whether 44-year-old Quinn, who is seven months pregnant, had pressed the "nuclear button" to rid herself and her family of the Home Secretary’s claims over her son.
Once news of the affair broke, it seemed to be Quinn’s intention to get on with her life with her husband and son.
Quinn immediately countered, insisting that her husband was the father.
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=1368942004   (946 words)

  
 Fictionwise eBooks: Diamond in the Rough by Patricia Waddell
Quinn had prospered in South Africa, not because fate had favored him, but because the slums of London had taught him how to fight and win.
Kimberley had that affect on women, especially women who didn't have the slightest idea what a mining town was really like once the glitter of diamonds evaporated and reality took its place.
Quinn wasn't just the best jackal in the business, he was the best bushman to be found, excluding the San natives who had inhabited the Cape Peninsula for countless generations.
www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/eBook20769.htm   (2174 words)

  
 Politics | Fallout of Blunkett's private affair becomes public issue
The most serious allegation, contained in an email from Mrs Quinn to a friend and passed to the Sunday Telegraph, is that the home secretary fast-tracked the granting of a permanent residency in Britain to Leonicia Caslame, 36, a nanny working for Mrs Quinn.
Further allegations made by anonymous friends of Mrs Quinn and carried in the Sunday Telegraph suggest that Mr Blunkett helped with the application in spring 2003, even though she could not be granted indefinite leave to remain until after four years of entering the country.
Mr Blunkett has conceded that he gave Mrs Quinn a first class rail ticket assigned to him as an MP and for use by his family - but said that, at the time in August 2002, he thought she was to be his wife.
politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5073633-110247,00.html   (952 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | world news Britain awaits report on 'Nannygate'
Blunkett and Quinn broke up a clandestine three-year relationship in August, prompting a bitter feud in family court over the politician's bid for paternity rights to Quinn's two-year-old son.
Quinn, who began her affair with Blunkett shortly after marrying Irish-born Vogue publisher Stephen Quinn, is publisher of the Spectator, a favourite weekly read of Britain's chattering classes.
She is pregnant with a second child, and last weekend it emerged that she also had a relationship with a political columnist who also pens a wine column for the Spectator.
iafrica.com /news/worldnews/400061.htm   (424 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Politics - Quinn's 'fourth man' is Scots peer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kimberley Quinn had an affair five years ago with Scottish Labour sponsor Lord Leitch, a self-made millionaire who formerly ran Allied Dunbar.
Allied Dunbar had in 1995 joined The Spectator, where Mrs Quinn is publisher, in sponsoring a lecture given by Tony Blair - who at the time was keen to appeal to voters outside traditional Labour circles.
Mrs Quinn, now married to Vogue publisher Stephen Quinn, also had an affair with Simon Hoggart - a married political journalist - and has been linked to a breakfast radio broadcaster, who is - as yet - unidentified.
news.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=1466792004   (835 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Politics - Blunkett is warned off by lover's forgiving husband   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Stephen Quinn said that his pregnant wife Kimberley, who had a three-year affair with the Home Secretary, was "not the greatest sinner this country has produced".
As he left her hospital bedside, Mr Quinn appeared to cast doubt on whether his wife was coping with the high level of stress brought by the scandal.
Mr Quinn said his wife was very distressed that her former nanny had told her story to the media.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=1384932004   (805 words)

  
 C4 News - Home - Politics - Visa affair: Blunkett orders inquiry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Mrs Quinn says she was given two first class rail tickets that Mr Blunkett had received as a Member of Parliament.
NOVEMBER 23: Kimberley Quinn has medical evidence proving the Home Secretary is not the father of her first child, according to the Evening Standard.
Lawyers for Mrs Quinn were said to have been contacted by the Home Secretary, who reportedly wanted DNA tests to prove whether he is the father of both William and the child she is carrying.
www.channel4.com /news/2004/11/week_4/28_blunkett.html   (887 words)

  
 Britain's Home Secretary Blunkett under attack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Quinn, who publishes the right-wing Spectator magazine and is married to Vogue publisher Stephen Quinn.
In an e-mail leaked to the Sunday Telegraph, Quinn herself claims that in 2003 Blunkett “fast-tracked” a permanent work visa for her nanny.
Quinn is currently in hospital, said by her husband to be suffering from stress due to the media frenzy and Blunkett having threatened court action to get access to her two-year-old son William and seeking a blood test to establish the paternity of her unborn child.
www.wsws.org /articles/2004/dec2004/blun-d02.shtml   (859 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The statement went on: “It was recently inaccurately reported in a Sunday newspaper that Blunkett has claimed to be the father of Quinn's recently born baby.
Hoggart, 57, who is married with two children, has said there was no possibility that he could be the father of either her two-year-old son or the second child.
It claims: “The real father is said to be a leading media figure who had a fling with Quinn while she was romancing Blunkett, 57.” According to DNA tests, Lorcan “was conceived between May 21 and May 24 last year”.
www.telegraphindia.com /1050306/asp/foreign/story_4460168.asp   (639 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Profile: Kimberly Quinn
Mrs Quinn began a relationship with the minister, 57, less than three months into her second marriage, to millionaire Vogue publisher Stephen Quinn.
Mrs Quinn joined Conde Nast magazine publishers in the mid-1990s, when her now husband Stephen was publishing director for the company's GQ title.
Mr Quinn, 60, who has three children from a previous marriage, had had a vasectomy reversed so the couple - who live in Mayfair in London - could try for children.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/4051777.stm   (536 words)

  
 BARISTA: obviously apolitical sperm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The accusation, thought to have been leaked by Mrs Quinn, 44, is seen by some as an act of revenge in a bitter and messy end to the affair.
Mr Quinn, now 60, was therefore delighted when his wife became pregnant and, in September 2002, gave birth to a boy they named William.
Mrs Quinn is said to have wanted to end the affair and try to save her marriage.
dox.media2.org /barista/archives/001403.html   (1521 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Kimberley
Under the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, the purchase of rough diamonds is to be accompanied by a certificate stating their country of origin.
The Kimberley Process, which in theory would make diamond statistics (especially those of rough) more visible, seems to have achieved the opposite and today it is harder than before to get reliable import and export data...
Kimberley: A new stadium is planned in the diamond-producing city with a capacity of 40,000 and a completion date of May 2007.
worldcities.surfwax.com /files/Kimberley_South_Africa.html   (5203 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Top Stories - One who loved not wisely but too well   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Mrs Quinn was already prominent in the political scene as publisher of the Spectator.
Mr Quinn had undergone a vasectomy reversal as his wife was sleeping with the Home Secretary: she told her husband the baby was his.
It was only last month Mr Quinn found that for three years his wife had betrayed him - and that their son might not be his child after all.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1433622004   (1015 words)

  
 Mirror.co.uk - News - All News Archive - EMAIL PROVES NANNY VISA WAS SPEEDED   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
They came after married Mrs Quinn complained to Mr Blunkett about the delays in getting her nanny's visa.
Mrs Quinn claimed when she showed the visa letter to Mr Blunkett on their way to a restaurant, he responded: "Give it to me, I will take care of this." Sir Alan said Mr Blunkett had insisted he was referring to an exercise to clear visa backlogs.
After Mrs Quinn raised it again, she said Mr Blunkett advised the nanny to "pipe down" allegedly adding "I'll make the calls again".
www.mirror.co.uk /news/allnews/tm_objectid=15002596&method=full&siteid=50143&headline=email-proves-nanny-visa-was-speeded-name_page.html   (407 words)

  
 House of Commons - Standards and Privileges - Second Report
One of these was that Mr Blunkett had given Mrs Kimberly Quinn "two first class rail tickets in August 2002 which are thought to have been assigned to him for his work as an MP".
On 1 December it was reported in the press that Mr Blunkett had admitted giving Mrs Quinn a first-class rail warrant and had accepted that this was a breach of the House's rules.
The reason that August 2002 came up at all is because that was the allegation from Kimberley Quinn in the Sunday Telegraph of 28 November which triggered this investigation.
www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200405/cmselect/cmstnprv/189/18904.htm   (1932 words)

  
 The Daily Mail - Daily News from Pakistan - Newspaper from Pakistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
That is why when Blunkett and Kimberley unexpectedly decided to go their separate ways this August, it was big story for celebrity-hungry UK media.
However, it is not the often unpleasant bickering over the paternity of Kimberley kids that is at the heart of this controversy now.
Ms Kimberley’s sensational e-mail published by Telegraph yesterday accusing Blunkett of gross abuse of power has given a totally different and dramatic twist to the whole affair.
dailymailnews.com /200412/01/editorial.html   (934 words)

  
 Irish Post: Printer Friendly Version   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Mr Quinn told RTÉ’s Liveline programme he had no wish to ever meet his real mother — and admitted he feared publicity over his wife’s affair with Mr Blunkett might persuade her to try to contact him.
Mr Quinn also said that he believed being raised by foster parents had been a positive advantage to him and he never felt he missed out by not having blood parents.
His declarations come as Mr Blunkett continues to fight to prove he is the father of Kimberley Quinn’s twoyearold son, William and her unborn child — a fact that is disputed by both Quinns.
www.irishpost.co.uk /email/printer.asp?j=1357   (348 words)

  
 Downing Street Says...: David Blunkett
Asked if the Prime Minister had ever entertained David Blunkett and Kimberley Quinn as a couple at any social function in Downing Street, the PMOS said he was not aware of any such entertainment, but he also would not comment at all on the Prime Minister's dinner guest lists.
Asked whether Kimberley Quinn had attended a Buckingham Palace event at the same time as David Blunkett, and were they attending as a couple, the PMOS said it was not a Downing Street matter and not therefore one for him to comment on.
Asked if it reflected badly on the Prime Minister's judgement if he had entertained a married woman and her "boyfriend", the PMOS replied that the Prime Minister had made it very clear in his press conference earlier that he believed senior politicians were entitled to a private life, just like anybody else.
www.downingstreetsays.org /archives/001141.html   (897 words)

  
 Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums -> Blunkett denies visa 'fast-track'
An independent investigator is to probe claims he intervened in the visa application of Kimberly Quinn's former nanny, who is from the Philippines.
And the home secretary confirmed giving Mrs Quinn the train ticket, saying he believed he was entitled to claim for a partner's travel, but offered to refund the money if necessary.
And he said Mrs Quinn had only been given lifts on trips his chauffeur was already scheduled to make on government business.
www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=28114   (1224 words)

  
 Tangled private life gone public - Evening Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
David Blunkett's contest for contact with his ex-lover Kimberley Quinn's son and the revelations it sparked have put paid to the career of a man once tipped to become Britain's first blind Prime Minister.
His three-year affair with magazine publisher Kimberley ended in acrimony and bitter dispute, with him claiming he is the father of her two-year-old son and the boy's unborn brother.
Mrs Quinn met Mr Blunkett at a dinner party in August 2001, two months after she married multi-millionaire Conde Nast publisher Stephen Quinn in 2001.
www.eveningtimes.co.uk /print/news/5033658.shtml   (141 words)

  
 Rockall Times obtains Kimberley Quinn diary extract [The Rockall Times]
News that ex-David Blunkett dominatrix Kimberley Quinn has been keeping a diary over the past year has been the talk of tout Londres for the past week.
Speculation that Quinn will publish and be damned once she's departed back to America has caused considerable consternation among those to whom these things matter a great deal.
End up at party for an old friend in Kensington but decide he's not old enough and spend most of the evening talking over circulation, advertising space, and marketing with a scrumptious man from the Age Concern magazine who has a lovely crinkly face and looks at least a hundred.
www.therockalltimes.co.uk /2004/12/27/quinn-diary-extract.html   (1053 words)

  
 quinn funeral home -- quinn funeral home help | genealogy search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
To perpetuate the tradition of service, Frank and Doris's children are active in assisting families who have placed their trust and confidence in the Eagleson Funeral Home.
Recently, Quinn has been working as a consultant with funeral homes who want to protect their heritage and grow their funeral volume.
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www.funeralaid.com /i/quinnfuneralhome   (1063 words)

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