Black In Britain - M reference file

Sinitta Renet Malone - is the 80s pop singer and actor who had four Top Ten hits including "So Macho" and "Toy Boy". Born in the US she's the daughter of dancer Miquel Brown. Famous boyfriends and flings include 70s pop icon David Essexs, footballer John Fashanu and actor Brad Pitt. Now married, her much publicised attempts to start a family suffered a set-back when white surrogate mother Kerry West miscarried twins in June 2006.

Steve McQueen - Turner Prize winning artist of 1999. Famously beat Tracey Emin - she of the dirty bed and other weird art fame.

Diane Modahl - former athlete. The 800m 1990 Commonwealth champion and six times British champion refused to accept findings that she'd tested positive for illegal substances after being sent home from the 1994 games. She received a two-year ban but after some vigorous campaigning finally cleared her name. Away from the track she and her former coach husband Vicente have co-founded a sports/beach clothing brand called Xo2. The range includes miniskirts, bikinis and cotton T-shirts. Modahl is from Manchester and has one daughter. READ MORE

DOWNING STREET may be London home of the Prime Minister but it didn't stop career burglar Obadiah Marius having a crack. The 45-year-old from East London recently received a 12-month suspended jail sentence in 2008 for breaking into number 10. Added 29 March 2008

Colin Moses became National Chairman of the Prison Officers Association in

August 2002. The union has over 33,500 members working in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Colin comes from Newcastle and joined the Prison Service in 1986 after careers in the Merchant Navy. He worked as an officer at Castington and Low Newton jails, before being promoted to senior officer at Holme House. It was here he became the POA branch secretary and first stood for the National Executive Committee (NEC) in 1995. He then moved to Feltham on promotion where he became principal officer and again stood for election to the NEC, this time successfully. His career as a national POA official included posts as an area NEC representative for both the southwest and northeast, chair of the POA Race Relations Committee and part of the task force set up to implement the recommendations of the MacPherson Inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence. In August 2002, he stood for National Chairman for a second time and was successful. He was re-elected in November 2005. He is the first Black leader of the POA and, after Lord Bill Morris, only the second ever Black trades union leader in the UK .