UK:- Help get Simon & Garfunkel's Mrs Robinson to the top of the charts...

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The extraordinary fall from grace of homophobic Northern Ireland politician Iris Robinson - you'll recall that she called us "an abomination" - has led to a flurry of parodies of Simon & Garfunkel's famous song for the film The Graduate. And a campaign has been launched to get the original version to the top of the UK's pop charts, with celebrity endorsement from people including Boy George, who has urged his twitter followers to download the classic.

In an echo of the plot of the film, in which Anne Bancroft played a married woman who seduced a young Dusting Hoffman, the real-life Mrs Robinson - who was 59 at the time of the affair - reportedly took 19-year-old Kirk McCambley to her bed while her husband Peter, Northern Ireland's first minister, was away.

"Posters have also been placed around Belfast encouraging people to download the song and it is currently at number 45 in Amazon's download charts. The Official UK Charts Company told AFP yesterday that download sales of the song in Northern Ireland last week were up 1,200 per cent on the week before." (pinknews.co.uk)