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MENU tHe Home Digest 4 Guilty Pleasures Celebrity gossip 6 World Digest 10 MetroLife Arts and entertainment 14-15 60 Second Interview Hottie Megan Fox 16 TV 16-17 Puzzles & Letters 18-19 Classifieds 20 Sport 21-24 Help keep Dublin clean and tidy for everyone by taking your Metro with you and recycling it Beauty queens in gladiator brawl ONE beauty queen was arrested and another brought to hospital after a nightclub fracas over a TV Gladiator. Miss Manchester Beverley Jones, a club promoter and would-be actress, 24, was allegedly punched in the face after arguing with Miss England Rachel Christie about Miss Joness ex Tornado, Miss Christies current partner, who appears in the Sky1 series. Olympic heptathlon hopeful Miss Christie, 21, was arrested on suspicion of assault in Manchester and bailed, and Miss Jones, 24, was treated for superficial facial injuries. Trinity College medical students team up with broadcaster George Hook to raise much-needed funds for St Jamess Hospital and Dublin mental health groups for Trinity Med Day today Picture: Sportsfile MedIcated to success BY ROSS McDOnAGH day of rallies to protest pay cuts A MASS protest will take place to- day against the Governments planned pay and spending cuts. Thousands of public and private sector employees are taking to the streets of eight major towns and cit- ies for a series of regional rallies. Union chiefs warned there could be strikes within weeks if calls made at the National Day of Action were ignored. Peter McLoone, general secretary of the countrys largest public sec- tor union Impact, said his members were protesting after several months of unsuccessful talks. The people that we represent now want to give vent to their anger and their frustration and thats why they are taking to the streets, he said. In the meantime, we continue our efforts to try to find a solution that will avoid the protest escalating into strikes later in the month. The pro- tests are part of an Irish Congress of Trade Unions campaign opposing high unemployment, pay cuts and spending reductions. Congress general secretary David Begg said he hoped the protests would prevent potential cuts of 4billion in the December Budget. Were recommending that the ad- justment is made over a longer period of time and in the course of doing that we preserve the fabric of society. The Dublin march will begin at Parnell Square at 2.30pm, before travelling down OConnell Street, round College Green and along Nassau Street, before finishing at a rally at Merrion Square. Business group Ibec criticised the planned protest, saying Ireland needed a plan to protect jobs, not a protest to disrupt jobs. Old solutions and old-style pro- tests will not make one Irish person better off or their job more secure, said director Brendan McGinty. It is counterproductive to meet the inevitable adjustment by dis- rupting employment and services. Taoiseach Brian Cowen said a re- duction of 1.3billion in the public service pay bill was unavoidable since pay forms such a large part of public expenditure, adding there was no room for manoeuvre in raising income tax instead of pay cuts as the top four per cent of earn- ers already pay 48 per cent. call to criminalise men who buy sex THE Government was yesterday urged to bring in tough new laws banning men from buying sex in an effort to clamp down on organised crime and human trafficking. A top Swedish police officer told a Dublin conference other countries should emulate the Scandinavian laws targeting men who swap cash for sex rather than women who sell it. Soliciting, kerb-crawling and operating brothels are illegal in Ireland but men can exchange money with a prostitute in private without breaking the law. Detective Inspector Jonas Trolle from the Stockholm Police Department said those using prostitutes were financing international criminal gangs. If you want to fight against trafficking in human beings you have to start with demand, he said. A democracy shouldnt have this modern way of slavery. Taoiseach: Cuts are unavoidable Hitler was footie coach, say pupils ONE-in-20 UK schoolchildren think Adolf Hitler was a coach of the German football team, a British survey has found. And one in six youngsters said they thought Auschwitz was a World War II theme park while one-in-20 thought the Holocaust was a celebration at the end of the war. The survey for a veterans charity also found one-in-ten thought the SS stood for Enid Blytons Secret Seven, and one-in-12 believed the Blitz was a Europe-wide clean-up. Crown slipping? 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