METRO Friday, September 18, 2009 D TODAY: Dry with cloud and sunny spells. Max 16C SAT: Drizzle spreading eastwards, dry later. Max 16C METRO Weather Warning on body fat boob job plan A LEADING plastic surgeon warned women yesterday to avoid a new breast enlargement technique which uses their own body fat. Douglas McGeorge, former president of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons advises women to wait until all potential pitfalls are known. One fear is that the new technique could mask breast cancer. MENU the Home Digest 4 World Digest 10 Guilty Pleasures Celebrity gossip 12-13 Letters 16 MetroLife Arts and entertainment 18-19 60 Second Interview Michael Caine 20 TV 20-21 Classifieds 23-24 Sport 25-28 Help keep Dublin clean and tidy for everyone by taking your Metro with you and recycling it Parents turning to soup kitchens CASH-STRAPPED parents are turning to soup kitchens to feed their families, it was revealed yesterday. Dublin-based charity Crosscare said rising numbers of the recently unemployed were calling at its centres to pick up basic foodstuffs with their children. Director Conor Hickey said the agency, which traditionally serves hot meals to the homeless and elderly, had not seen such demand since the darkest days of the 1980s recession. Mr Hickey said the charity was relying on public donations to help meet the demand. Stephen Negru and friends from St Marys Boys National School on Haddington Road lead the charge with Brian ODriscoll to help launch the Irish League of Credit Unions Poster Competition Picture: Maxwells Credit Where its due BY jeANANNe CRAIg Bus crash driver had a green lightA DOUBLE-decker bus which col- lided with a tram in Dublins city centre had been given a green light, transport chiefs claimed yesterday. Twenty-six people were injured af- ter the number 16 bus and Luas tram crashed at the corner ofAbbey Street and OConnell Street on Wednesday afternoon. CIE chairman Dr John Lynch said traffic lights had given the Dublin Bus driver right of way just before the accident. The indications that we have on the CCTV is fairly clear that the driver had a green light, Dr Lynch said. What can a driver do if he has a green light except go through? The tram from Tallaght derailed on impact ploughing into the side of the Santry bus, pinning passengers against broken glass and seats. Three people remained in hospital following the collision, including the driver of the Luas. A total of 21 people attended the Mater hospital yesterday. One person remained at the hospi- tal yesterday, while a second a young woman student, who was a passenger on the bus was trans- ferred to Beaumont Hospital where she is in a serious condition. A further two people were in a sta- ble condition at St Jamess Hospital. A number of people who had been left trapped on the bus had to be cut free from the wreckage by members of Dublin City Fire Brigade. A Railway Safety Commission in- quiry was under way along with separate investigations by garda, Dublin Bus, Luas operator Veolia and the Department of Transport. It will be a while because theyve got to go into everything. They have our CCTV but they have obviously got to look at: Did the Luas have any CCTV and was there a problem? Dr Lynch added. A Luas spokeswoman declined to comment on Dr Lynchs claims. The crash prompted calls for an ur- gent safety review from Labour transport spokesman Tommy Broughan. Mr Broughan said the transport sectors procedures and checks needed to be reassessed in light of the Luas crash and the collapse of a bridge on the Dublin-Belfast line near Malahide last month. Major question marks remain over the performance of the Railway Safety Commission and the failure of the Government to properly re- source this critical rail safety agen- cy, he said. Meanwhile, garda have appealed for eye-witnesses and passengers who left the scene of the Luas and bus crash before emergency services arrived to come forward. Call for annual Guinness dayMORE than 7,000 people have called for a national annual holiday to toast the birth of Guinness. The famed brewery is marking 250 years in business this year with a raft of global celebrations on September 24 dubbed Arthurs Day after the black stuffs founder. A petition set up on social networking site Facebook calling for Arthurs Day to be an annual holiday racked up 7,000 names in just four days. Preparations for the celebrations are getting under way with just one week to go until the big day. The gigs celebrating the birth of the famed stout will take place in Dublin, Lagos, Cameroon and Kuala Lumpur, with the hub of the festivities in the famed St Jamess Gate brewery. The main concert at the Guinness Storehouse will be streamed live via Sky television to thousands of pubs on the day. Tom Jones, Estelle, Sugababes, Natalie Imbruglia, former Destinys Child singer Kelly Rowland, and Kasabian are some of the star- studded lined-up expected to entertain and rock the capital. Celebrating: Rowland DID YOU KNOW? THE Boston Massacre of 1770 which left five people dead and culminated in the American Revolution started with an argument over whether a British soldier had paid his wig-makers bill. It later emerged he had in fact paid. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html