Noel Gallagher slams knife crime & Jay-Z wants Oasis hook-up By Jody Thompson, Mirror.co.uk Noel Gallagher hit out at the knife-wielding "scumbags taking over our streets" as he arrived at today's Silver Clef Awards to pick up a lifetime achievement award for Oasis. Asked about knives taking over the streets, he said: "It's horrible. It's horrible. I don't even know what Cameron and Gordon Brown are going to do about it." He continued: "It all goes back to the Thatcher years. It's a cliche to say it but that's where the rot set in." The songwriter said the problem had got so bad, he and partner Sara McDonald often agonised over how they could protect their children from it. He explained: "Me and the missus talk about it at night about how our kids are going to grow up. I don't know what you can do. "In my day, status was...
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